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[FlyingJesus]

So apparently having an earned amount of rep power that you can use in strictly limited quantities to reward others is more easily abused than setting everyone's rep power to 1 (which is essentially what likes are) and allowing unlimited likes for anything. I know not everyone here is exactly what you'd call a genius but surely you lot don't actually believe this is a better way of doing things?

Let's assume we have the like system. Marketing and Intersocial decide that they are bffs and will like every post the other makes. Suddenly they appear to anyone on their profiles to be respected posters who make useful and informed comments because they have 111 and 102 likes respectively, but obv we know that in reality Dom and Warden are *REMOVED* Compound this with the fact that they would for their spamming have over 100 times the recognition that someone who isn't abusing the system gets even if they're a positively contributing member, and we can see that the like system - which is really just getting rid of rep power and rep limits - makes no sense at all

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[MKR&*42]

So apparently having an earned amount of rep power that you can use in strictly limited quantities to reward others is more easily abused than setting everyone's rep power to 1 (which is essentially what likes are) and allowing unlimited likes for anything. I know not everyone here is exactly what you'd call a genius but surely you lot don't actually believe this is a better way of doing things?

Let's assume we have the like system. Marketing and Intersocial decide that they are bffs and will like every post the other makes. Suddenly they appear to anyone on their profiles to be respected posters who make useful and informed comments because they have 111 and 102 likes respectively, but obv we know that in reality Dom and Warden are bell ends. Compound this with the fact that they would for their spamming have over 100 times the recognition that someone who isn't abusing the system gets even if they're a positively contributing member, and we can see that the like system - which is really just getting rid of rep power and rep limits - makes no sense at all

Rude. Agree with everything else you've said though.

[Samantha]

only have ~20 -reps (excluding ones removed a long time ago)
lost count after i started reading some of them

look what i found @Samanfa;

LMAO, I know who -repped you for that .

I have 11 -reps and and 994+reps I believe.

I haven't kept up with this thread much, so is a like system being tested alongside it? What if at the end people like having both and use both, will they both stay?

[David]

LMAO, I know who -repped you for that .

I have 11 -reps and and 994+reps I believe.

I haven't kept up with this thread much, so is a like system being tested alongside it? What if at the end people like having both and use both, will they both stay?

wasnt it @Inkwell;

[Kardan]

I don't think your point about highest powers being ones repped multiple times by people with higher rep powers is true... look at the top people, they're all active in past 3 years so that's why they will have lots of rep? ;s

n as for whoever said kkk all repped each other (@e5; was it? Didnt u buy rep?) that's not true, especially as there is literally 2 kkk members left who are active and the rest never post nor rep, maybe it was true back in 06-08 but even then it'd only be 100 points worth of rep or something. Fj is highest because he's been consistently active and liked for 7 years, same as neversoft, im the next kkk member at 4th highest rep n ive been active since this account was made but after that, the kkk members go down pretty much based on activity level. -ss- is 18th but he was like 2nd highest rep in his time, nemo 22nd, le Harry 37, smiddy 38, undertaker 39 (who is active but I'd assume he'd have some -reps :p) mr.sam 54 slowpoke 91 Tristan 123 etc then there's Blake and wolverine who r even lower... they've all been around since pretty much beginning of time so that's why they're still 'high'.

look at people who are near top of rep list now incl u @lawrawrrr;and samanfa and have only been here since around 09) are u gna say uve been repped multiple times by people with higher rep powers? + tht u don't deserve the rep or something? I know for fact me, fj and neversoft and goldenmerc have handed out lots of rep. the reason y people are high on list is because they've been active for at least 3 years, not just coz getting lots of high rep... so people do deserve the amount of rep they've been given (not points) if it's different individual reps (I have 98 pages and I think maybe 5 is -rep?) but yh i still agree that it should show how much individual reps u have and even how much negative you've received, just don't have to have the whole point system as rly they don't do anything but give eliteness

I pretty much agree with this whole post. The whole reason of rep inflation is because of high rep powers now, not because of rep being abused.

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I'm counting my reps now, and my first page is nearly all red, but all are positive comments... Clearly people had no clue how to use rep back in the day...

[AgnesIO]

So apparently having an earned amount of rep power that you can use in strictly limited quantities to reward others is more easily abused than setting everyone's rep power to 1 (which is essentially what likes are) and allowing unlimited likes for anything. I know not everyone here is exactly what you'd call a genius but surely you lot don't actually believe this is a better way of doing things?

Let's assume we have the like system. Marketing and Intersocial decide that they are bffs and will like every post the other makes. Suddenly they appear to anyone on their profiles to be respected posters who make useful and informed comments because they have 111 and 102 likes respectively, but obv we know that in reality Dom and Warden are bell ends. Compound this with the fact that they would for their spamming have over 100 times the recognition that someone who isn't abusing the system gets even if they're a positively contributing member, and we can see that the like system - which is really just getting rid of rep power and rep limits - makes no sense at all

Nothing like a compliment :8

I want to disagree, but I agree with this post - I think if we are having a like system just do it, but trying to change the rep system to be a like system would be utterly pointless. I know a like system can work, however, unless the older members are still recognised I personally don't want it - not because we have an ego to keep up, but at the end of the day - however small it may be - we have earned it.

[Kardan]

I've got 91 -reps (I'd say a good 60 of those are like pre 2007...), which means I have only 704 +reps.

I think I've had a -rep from most people in this thread though

[AgnesIO]

My second ever rep was for *REMOVED*, if that isn't rep abuse I don't know what is :rolleyes: It was, of course, a -rep.

:L

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[FlyingJesus]

I have 142 pages of rep but 140, 141, and 142 are blank what is this witchcraft

[Kardan]

My second ever rep was for "Get a new Habbo name", if that isn't rep abuse I don't know what is :rolleyes: It was, of course, a -rep.

:L

I've got so many things that should be removed, but because they are so early, they must have a rep power of about 1

These were all -reps:

*REMOVED*

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Apparently I should be bullied because I was ginger