Why do admins nd 15 rep power?

[-Xiangu-]

He said he should get something back, but volunteers dont get anything back.

Yes! its called being nice and giving some gratitude. why cant the volunteers be rewarded? for ALL their hard work?

[Ostinato]

The person who had the idea to allow buying rep was wrong and looking back I wish I never gave rep for buying vip. The rep system is a total mess. I have seen how the rep system is being abused and its mainly by the high rep people so yes it did have to happen. I could be all nice about it and say I care what the members think on this issue but personally I dont and as far as I am concerned if they dont like it they know where the door is. of course this is my own personal opinion and not the one taken by habboxforum.com and other management.

Exactly and I agree with your post. It was being made a mockery of and something should have been done - absolutely right and fair enough. However, it still isn't clear to me why this only affects certain chosen members and not those who actually want to enforce the rule?

Well seeing as the admins do alot for the forum including helping people , making sure everything works etc They deserve something in return as without them the forum would fall apart.
I can guarantee that 99% of all forums you will visit (Well Habbo ones atleast) will have admins with a set high rep power and in some cases they are generally high, When I said it shows authority I was generalizing all forums not just Habbox.

You may have been talking about forums in general, but it has to be said some are worse for it than others and Habboxforum is no exception at all.

They do deserve something in return -ss--, and perhaps that is why they are paid with money? Perhaps that is why they already have a different coloured name to normal users?

Even if they do deserve extra rep - fine, give them the extra points... But why the hell should they just not be affected in any way at all whilst the rest of us are?

It's the high of hypocrisy and your post does not bring light as to why there seems to be different rules for different people and the management of this forum ultimately are unwilling to practice what they preach.

[jrh2002]

If my staff forum post counts were not stolen from me without me even being consulted then under the old rep I would have had more than my 15 but under the new system I will have under 15. We have always had a set limit just like other VB forum admin. Personally if this is such a big issue I don't mind having what rep power I earned but I have not been running around shouting i should have more rep power over my stolen post count From now I won't rep anybody no matter how good their post is just incase I offend others by my rep power.

[Mr.OSH]

At the end of the day the administrators run the forum. They only give reputation to members that reserve it and if you think about it "reputation" is a measure of how well known you are and how much you have done for the forum, how much you help others etc which means that the administrators probably deserve it to start with. Then also does this matter all that much? They are only going to be adding reputation to people who they feel truly deserve it so I don't see why it would cause such a problem that they have the highest reputation on the forum when without them it wouldn't be able to function properly? If it is really important that it is lowered or that they work their way up like other members then they could easily do this but I really don't think it matters. Maybe getting their reputation level changed to a default of 10 or something if it is needed but from my perspective I don't see why it is a problem. I think that is the way it is supposed to be really, administrators are running the forum therefore they have the most "reputation" for working hard to keep it running and a good amount of member have respect for them for what they do. I can see why you think they should have it lowered but in all honestly I think that 1) it doesn't totally matter 2) they run the forum after all, they deserve it really.

[Superman]

Seriously of all the problems with recent rep changes why pick the fact that admin have a fixed amount to cry about? There's no sound argument for why they shouldn't do as they please (seeing as how they run the place and we're hardly communists) and all this is really doing is serve as a distraction from the issue of sorting out the real issue of the change.

[Catzsy]

Seriously of all the problems with recent rep changes why pick the fact that admin have a fixed amount to cry about? There's no sound argument for why they shouldn't do as they please (seeing as how they run the place and we're hardly communists) and all this is really doing is serve as a distraction from the issue of sorting out the real issue of the change.

Which is in your opinion?

[Soil]

Disable rep ... that will end all the arguments. Refund people who bought REP or give them free vip. Rep is worthless now and a waste of time.

[Superman]

Which is in your opinion?

I meant the change in general (as I don't believe the reasons given for it are of sound argument), rather than picking out one unimportant side effect of it.

[JackHb]

I don't see why admins rep power is a big issue.
I am sure they all don't go around repping people all day as they have work to do.

They run the forum so for all i care they can have 100 rep power

[jrh2002]

Disable rep ... that will end all the arguments. Refund people who bought REP or give them free vip. Rep is worthless now and a waste of time.

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.