Reputation vs Like/Thanks system?

[dbgtz]

- Reputation is an out dated system
How so?

- Reputation is heavily seen as a negative system
Because you can give minus rep? Why is that a bad thing?

- Reputation adds more work for forum staff due to reports
Does it?

- Reputation is abused (friends repping each other, pointless reps, rude reps, revenge reps, etc)
Likes could also be abused

- Like system publicly shows who agrees/liked your posts
Matter of opinion if this is a positive thing.

- Like system shows a 'total' (rather than power)
So does the current rep system on a post-by-post basis

- Like system has a flat out power (1) making it equal for all (i.e. someone joining tomorrow can like a post, as well as someone from 10 years ago, and there isn't 80 points different within their 'like')
Fair point

- Like system is more widely used, so newer members will understand it where as some may not understand the reputation system (*)
It's not really that complicated and widely used =/= better.
@scottish;

you seem to care a fair amount for a forum you're no longer going to use in May

[Lewis]

I personally prefer the rep system over the like system due to being able to give negatives as well as positives, comment on them, etc. I voted to keep it the same as it currently is, but I wouldn't mind having both systems on the forum at the same time if it was possible.

[scottish]

- Reputation is an out dated system
How so?

It was an old system used when vB came out in what 2004? Every other forum software adapted this to a like/thanks system as well as several plugins for vbullletin. Most social websites will make use of some form of 'like' system (reddit, facebook, even the likes of twitter with retween/favourites)

- Reputation is heavily seen as a negative system
Because you can give minus rep? Why is that a bad thing?

As a Habbo fansite you're obviously encouraging a positive atmosphere so obviously a negative system which promotes a negative atmosphere is going to be a bad thing..

- Reputation adds more work for forum staff due to reports
Does it?

Did you read this thread? See Wispur's reply. Obviously it does.

- Reputation is abused (friends repping each other, pointless reps, rude reps, revenge reps, etc)
Likes could also be abused

It sure could but it's a public system, so if you liked every one of my posts, I'm sure someone would spot it fairly quickly, where as rep abuse would go unnoticed unless an admin actively looked for it, or the rep got reported.

- Like system publicly shows who agrees/liked your posts
Matter of opinion if this is a positive thing.

Again promotes a positive atmosphere, for example now if I insult you I might get 10 people who hate you +repping me, where as in a system that's public I wouldn't imagine many (if any) would do the same.

- Like system shows a 'total' (rather than power)
So does the current rep system on a post-by-post basis

Feel free to tell me how many reps I've gained via the post-by-post system

- Like system has a flat out power (1) making it equal for all (i.e. someone joining tomorrow can like a post, as well as someone from 10 years ago, and there isn't 80 points different within their 'like')
Fair point

Thank you

- Like system is more widely used, so newer members will understand it where as some may not understand the reputation system (*)
It's not really that complicated and widely used =/= better.
@scottish;

I never said it's better, but given the source (the asterisk) obviously some members see it as being a more understandable and easy to use system, maybe because it's so popular on literally every other website in the world so they're more used to it, then come to old fashioned habbox and think wtf is rep, idk.

you seem to care a fair amount for a forum you're no longer going to use in May

So because I plan on quitting in a few months means I can't make the forum 'better' for the duration I'm still here? or my opinion isn't valid? no.

Each point was brought up in the other thread so read it for a thorough understanding.

However I'll answer to sum it up in red.

[The Don]

Each point was brought up in the other thread so read it for a thorough understanding.

However I'll answer to sum it up in red.

Not every forum has gone to the like system, stop exaggerating. forum.bodybuild.com is a prime example of a popular forum with a rep system. Old doesn't mean outdated.

[AgnesIO]

I personally prefer the rep system over the like system due to being able to give negatives as well as positives, comment on them, etc. I voted to keep it the same as it currently is, but I wouldn't mind having both systems on the forum at the same time if it was possible.

nononononononononononono.

This is the worst suggestion out of the lot! Not a dig at you - it is one that has come up regularly over the years, and I still think it would be totally unnecessary.

[MKR&*42]

Having used a forum where a rep + like system are both present, I can tell you having both is a completely unnecessary idea.

[Lewis]

nononononononononononono.

This is the worst suggestion out of the lot! Not a dig at you - it is one that has come up regularly over the years, and I still think it would be totally unnecessary.

Well as I said I'd rather just keep it as it is with the rep, but if I had to choose otherwise it'd be both.

[MKR&*42]

Not every forum has gone to the like system, stop exaggerating. forum.bodybuild.com is a prime example of a popular forum with a rep system. Old doesn't mean outdated.

thestudentroom.co.uk also still has a rep system (though last year it removed -rep).

[scottish]

So you'd make it IMPOSSIBLE for any new member to get comparable rep points to anyone else, as we go up sometimes 80 at a time, and a new member would go up 1.


So where we have something like 15,000 average rep maybe, it would take 15,000 reps for a new member to achieve the same.

you seemed to have missed a post @The Don;

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Not every forum has gone to the like system, stop exaggerating. forum.bodybuild.com is a prime example of a popular forum with a rep system. Old doesn't mean outdated.

If it's regarding my first point I said forum software.

if it's in regard to my 'literally every other website in the world' comment, then you caught me. I exaggerated.

[Kyle]

thestudentroom.co.uk also still has a rep system (though last year it removed -rep).

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/faq.php?faq=rep

Tsr rep is capped isn't it


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