Idea ~ Rewarding

[AgnesIO]

People don't get promoted for not breaking company rules or whatever, as that's expected. People get promoted for making a positive contribution to their work place. Just like people here are rewarded for making a positive contribution to the forum.

About 8 people a month, who post of them are the same each month, well done!!!11!

[xxMATTGxx]

About 8 people a month, who post of them are the same each month, well done!!!11!

Actually myself and Garion made some new rules about MOTM. That the same people are no longer allowed to be selected until after so many MOTM's.

[Catzsy]

Thanks Dom, your words are appreciated. MOTM is something worthwhile to go for I believe. I hope to see your name there soon!

[Immenseman]

Dom, it's good to see you want to improve the forum but when people highlight the aspects of the idea that wouldn't work they aren't flaming you merely pointing it out. You can get rewarded anyway. MOTM has already been mentioned, people give +REP if you post constructively and integrate good thoughts into your posts which is a "reward".

[PriceTags]

Dom, you throw accusations of flaming around too easily. I am now going to show you the widely accepted definition of flaming from Urbandictionary.

An online argument that becomes nasty or derisive, where insulting a party to the discussion takes precedence over the objective merits of one side or another

Neither I or the other member who has been accused of flaming by you have insulted you or been nasty to you. You need to understand that people will disagree with what you say at one point or another.

[Mint]

If someone said to me "go "x" time without getting an infraction and you will get 10 free reputation points", sure it would be nice and I would obviously go for it. But if I said "no I'm not going to go for it" then I'm basically saying that I will not follow the forum rules, as to get 10 free reputation points all I have to do is follow the rules. So what I am trying to say is that all we are doing is getting rewarded for doing something that we should do anyway. But I do kind of see what you are saying, it would encourage you to do follow the forum rules, but back to square one, all you are doing is following the rules.

[AgnesIO]

If someone said to me "go "x" time without getting an infraction and you will get 10 free reputation points", sure it would be nice and I would obviously go for it. But if I said "no I'm not going to go for it" then I'm basically saying that I will not follow the forum rules, as to get 10 free reputation points all I have to do is follow the rules. So what I am trying to say is that all we are doing is getting rewarded for doing something that we should do anyway. But I do kind of see what you are saying, it would encourage you to do follow the forum rules, but back to square one, all you are doing is following the rules.

Yeh I know what you mean.

It would obviously be that kind of, but it might give moderators an easier time - as I know for a fact I have often given mod's a rough time - they don't deserve it though!

[buttons]

If you are to say it's to be given to members that start behaving aswell as the ones that have always behaved then it wouldn't work. At school the badly behaved were the only ones that got treats like days out if they started behaving but soon after they would start misbehaving again. It wasn't fair because for the rest of us (yes I behave at school :eusa_ange) we didn't get anything for behaving in the first place but we learn to deal with that. There are many members who can behave on their own accord, they may not get rewarded for it but at least they are not getting punished for it. For me personally, I can not go 4 months or so without receiving an infraction, it doesn't mean i'm misbehaving as it could be down to posting off-topic or double posting. If it was, say 8 months without an infraction and I got 1 for pointless posting it wouldn't be fair if I was disqualified from getting any rewards as it's hardly that much of an offense. Insulting members or being rude, which you seem to have a problem doing, is much worse and I could see why these people wouldn't be praised for it, it wouldn't be fair judgement if people didn't get it for the teeny tiniest things. You would also get members that didn't receive it complaining about favouritism

Along with Member of the Month, (I do think it's flawed tbh, I can always think of better contenders but it's down to judgement from the staff) the rep system is a sufficient enough way of rewarding members. I give rep to others for giving good posts & points etc that will contribute to the forum and benefit the forum other than just the poster, these are generally to the well behaved anyway so they are infact getting the right rewards. The fact that well behaved people (I'm thinking of moderators obviously and people that have had very few or no infractions/warnings) don't seem too bothered about the rewarding issue just shows they're fine with how it is already. All that seems to be brought up is the punishment system, if people are complaining about the punishment system it also shows that people need to start behaving first before rewards could even be considered being given out. As this is thread was created by someone who may be put into the group of misbehaviours (I think you can see from the threads you make of how you get too many infractions ) then it also clarifys the fact that the ones that can behave are fine without the extra rep or whatever else.

The staff give rewards by VIP from Member of the Month & members can too along with staff by issuing reputation to others for good posts therefore the rewarding system is more than enough. People need to start behaving for themselves - not being hypocritical because I need to too, before rewards should even be thought of.

[AgnesIO]

Its not so much insulting members I have a problem with haha

Its telling them to leave opr saying I don't like their rooms which is what I normally get in trouble for

If it was on a reputation basis it could work like:

1 week = 1 rep
2 weeks = 2 rep
3 weeks = 4 rep
4 weeks = 8 rep
5 weeks = 12 reps

Then people would actually have to be good for a long period to make it worth it - although I know what you mean by the school bit. I hate it when kids that are bad at school, pick up a pencil and get a 'well done' and other crap, but ifyou constantly do well you get nothing.

My reputation was mainly made from my first year at the forum when I have about ten infractions/warnings at any one point - up until like this week, I didn't get ifnractions or warnings for months

If you are to say it's to be given to members that start behaving aswell as the ones that have always behaved then it wouldn't work. At school the badly behaved were the only ones that got treats like days out if they started behaving but soon after they would start misbehaving again. It wasn't fair because for the rest of us (yes I behave at school :eusa_ange) we didn't get anything for behaving in the first place but we learn to deal with that. There are many members who can behave on their own accord, they may not get rewarded for it but at least they are not getting punished for it. For me personally, I can not go 4 months or so without receiving an infraction, it doesn't mean i'm misbehaving as it could be down to posting off-topic or double posting. If it was, say 8 months without an infraction and I got 1 for pointless posting it wouldn't be fair if I was disqualified from getting any rewards as it's hardly that much of an offense. Insulting members or being rude, which you seem to have a problem doing, is much worse and I could see why these people wouldn't be praised for it, it wouldn't be fair judgement if people didn't get it for the teeny tiniest things. You would also get members that didn't receive it complaining about favouritism

Along with Member of the Month, (I do think it's flawed tbh, I can always think of better contenders but it's down to judgement from the staff) the rep system is a sufficient enough way of rewarding members. I give rep to others for giving good posts & points etc that will contribute to the forum and benefit the forum other than just the poster, these are generally to the well behaved anyway so they are infact getting the right rewards. The fact that well behaved people (I'm thinking of moderators obviously and people that have had very few or no infractions/warnings) don't seem too bothered about the rewarding issue just shows they're fine with how it is already. All that seems to be brought up is the punishment system, if people are complaining about the punishment system it also shows that people need to start behaving first before rewards could even be considered being given out. As this is thread was created by someone who may be put into the group of misbehaviours (I think you can see from the threads you make of how you get too many infractions ) then it also clarifys the fact that the ones that can behave are fine without the extra rep or whatever else.

The staff give rewards by VIP from Member of the Month & members can too along with staff by issuing reputation to others for good posts therefore the rewarding system is more than enough. People need to start behaving for themselves - not being hypocritical because I need to too, before rewards should even be thought of.

[Dan2nd]

Yes they do Sam.

If you look in work places, you get promoted for doing well..

And prisoners in jail get released early, or game consoles for doing well..

In a way we do get promoted on Habbox Forum, by not breaking the rules and getting banned you have the priviledge to post more and when you post more (in a non spammy way) you work yourself up the wonderful user ranks *cough* erm yeah exciting lol (if thats even how the user ranks work nowdays)