Too hard to become established on the forum?

[Sammeth.]

I reckon then that the rep limits should be reverted to how they were, and we be more stringent with enforcing rules regarding abuse of the reputation system. If people genuinely feel victimised then thats what the report rep thread is for etc. We shouldn't be tarring everyone with the same brush by enforcing stricter rep limits, rather punishing those who are directly affecting it.

[Immenseman]

If we changed it back to what it was. Say me, Tom, Harry and Marc all +repped somebody they would go up a power, near enough. That's 4 people who have the power to basically determine an individuals rep power. I imagine mine would be like 30/40 odd, some would have over 50, I think and it only used to be 200 points. It needs altering but not to what it was.

[FlyingJesus]

Yeah, I'm aware they are very minor issues but I thought they were worth raising to gauge opinions from others. With the inferior point, that is why the reputation system was changed, new members were constantly complaining how they felt victimised when they were -repped with people who had 40+ rep power, like they used to. This is why I mentioned it. I know that the change was with ---MAD--- and that I was the only AGM who opposed the proposal therefore nvr must've agreed to it so it might be hard to change the reputation system seeing as he's GM, even if he's away.

Frankly it worked both ways, the KKK often brought up newer or unknown members who we liked to prominence just by repping them up a bit and thus making new bigger characters on the forum. Similarly, we (along with many others especially in spam) could make a clear display of those we didn't like or who acted up - a case of user moderation, which is essentially what the rep system is meant to be anyway. The less this forum has allowed its society to act as a society, the more it's been abandoned by those who like to actually interact with people online... as in people who like forums.

[Alkaz]

Before the rep changes, for some reason or another I felt that Nick- attacked me for some reason, he removed 600 rep points of mine and said they were all pointless and that it was the second largest amount he had ever removed. He went back through all 4800 rep points I had at the time. Now I dont remember him ever doing that to anyone else apart from jesus, if it was done more often then it would mean people only repping for the real reasons.

[Sammeth.]

Well a little bit stricter but nowhere near as strict as what it is now, as I said in my post before the last one I made where I said something different.

[dogboy123]

I think one problem is that older users go around smug and like they're everything. Then say a new user posts a graphics, they will say back oh thats ****. That's no way to keep members.

Or if someones made a new room on habbo, someone comes along, again thats ****, that only makes the userfeel small and minor.

[FlyingJesus]

No point telling someone that a neon recolouring of an HC badge done with only the fill tool on paint is a work of art though. All good work gets praised as far as I see, it's only stuff that IS crap that gets called it unless one of the pixel artists has fallen out with another

[Alkaz]

Ben from what I remember, when people got into the 50s with rep power my rep power was 28 and people admired it and apart from in the KKK thread no one really boasted about their large rep powers anywere else apart from there. Else were on the forum people just did their best to get there powers up as high as they could.

[Immenseman]

Being smug is a personality trait, you can't say just old members are. People have the illusion people are snobby and act inferior on here to make others wary of them. It's who they are. There are new and old members like that. You just recognise the older members doing it which proves my point of those poor noobs not being noticed

[Alkaz]

You just recognise the older members doing it which proves my point of those poor noobs not being noticed

They just got a mention, must be being noticed now