Why do admins nd 15 rep power?

[Soil]

You have a good point but remember all vip's would need to be refunded if this was the case as it was part of the vip package.
The idea of turning the rep system off was discussed but would have caused more problems than just making it harder to get rep power and leting you all keep your rep points earned or bought.

The T&C's state hxf can pick and choose to refund so nobody would get a refund if it happened unless everybody did which would probably make the whole of habbox collapse paying 4 years of donations back.

I'm sure if rep was scrapped overall, most of the VIPs wouldnt argue about it. Subforums were scrapped, some users moaned but not for long.
Scrapping it would stop arguments over negative rep, the current situation we have here and also save an admin time looking at pointless rep.

[joshuar]

But we can't say "VIP's won't moan about reputation" as I personally thought that a majority of people would take this decision in. I would love to see the reputation system disabled then renabled from the start again in a month or so.

The system has become way too much hassle, for something which is only meant to be a tiny part of the forums itself.

[Soil]

Would be better to replace the reputation with the "Thanks" system. If a user likes a post, they can click a button to thank the post creator. You can see the number of thanks a user has got in their profile. It is a modification which can be found on vBulletin.org and it would be so much better than the reputation system.

[jrh2002]

But we can't say "VIP's won't moan about reputation" as I personally thought that a majority of people would take this decision in. I would love to see the reputation system disabled then renabled from the start again in a month or so.

The system has become way too much hassle, for something which is only meant to be a tiny part of the forums itself.

I was dead set against the system being scrapped or even started again but after the reaction to the best possible option in my view I think that is the way to go.
We could make it so people only ever get rep power from time on the forum and not from post count and receiving rep and then it could never be abused to the extent it has again. this way people could keep their rep score but not the rediculous rep power.

[Ostinato]

All of you are talking about all these other strategies and stuff that can be used... they are all brilliant but that is not the reason I created this thread.

The purpose of this seprate thread was in hope to find the answer to one very simple question, that every admin who has posted seems to have avoided.


If it is such a brilliant idea then why will the administrators not practice what they preach - rather than enforcing a rule upon people who have shown they do not want it?!


Throughout this whole thread it is the one question I have been seeking an answer of - and it is yet to be provided.

[joshuar]

jrh is up for taking it away, I don't mind if it goes but I personally don't care either way. It's up to them what they do with their reputation.

I can't really speak on behalf of the administrators and what will happen with it.

[Wootzeh]

Why do you care if Admins have 15rep power?

[Ostinato]

Why do you care if Admins have 15rep power?

Listen if you haven't even bothered to read this thread and understand the full scope of it - don't post.

If you did have the decency to enquire what it was about beforehand you will see that I don't actually care as to how much rep the admins have - it's the simple principle that there seems to be different rules for different people and I do not see why they are being left unaffected from this new rule.

[benjamin]

Ostinato you're being a baby throwing his toys out the pram.
They are 'superior' to normal members, vips and most staff. Why should they not have a set, higher Rep Power?

[GommeInc]

I think admins should have 10 rep power. 15 is far too much and MAD or someone has said it would be rare to see people over 10 so 10 rep power would be more adequate.