Post: Community Update, (And important poll on REP!)
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04-21-2011, 01:32 PM
#1
As me and Luke were assigned Community Admins, I thought it would be appropriate to start a series of "community threads" either posted by myself or Luke, to let you all know of the current situation of what is going on with staff and whats happening with things.
Vb4.
Now you may or may not have heard, but YES vB4 is being worked on and is currently in test stages, im not going to put an expected release date as we all know shitstorms come if the target date is not met. All I will say is expect it soon.
Private Premium.
Only the premiums would of seen my thread in their section about this, but yes, Private Premium is getting a re-vamp. How the revamp will be done isn't finalized yet, but you can expect the revamp to make the section more "private" than last time (higher expectation) and contribute based. Meaning we will look at how you contributed in Private Premium and the rest of the forum before you are allowed entrance.
Now onto Rep.
Rep is broken, it is, soften it up how you want, but in the end you will see its broken. Now there will be a poll attached to this thread. VOTE on the poll, this will be a PERMANENT change on Rep.
The options will be:
1. Leave Rep how it is.
2. Get rid of rep totally (disable it and hid the display).
3. Get rid of rep totally (disable it), but keep the display of rep. (bars/stars)
4. Get rid of -Rep/+rep, but Keep Thanks, Nominations, Groans. (make groans worth 3 -rep).
So that is about all thats happening in "staff world" at the moment, you will see another "community update" thread in about a week. Me and Luke will try to push for 1 thread a week to let you all know. Now sometimes there might not be anything to update you all on, but if thats the case, as soon as something comes expect a Community Update thread.
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04-21-2011, 10:45 PM
#201
robad1
Climbing up the ladder
Originally posted by DarkestNinja
People with low rep are obviously going to vote to take it away /facepalm
I have to disagree as people with low rep are here and will always try to up their rep. I have a low rep yet have voted to keep. I like the fact the rep shows that you are helpful or have made a valuable contribution to the community. Obviously I have not made as much as i possibly could but I try. I have voted to keep but the format of rep has to change.
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04-21-2011, 11:25 PM
#206
ForeverBailey
Find me on Steam.
Dunno if it'd been said but:
"Get rid of -Rep/+rep, but Keep Thanks, Nominations, Groans. (make groans worth 3 -rep)."
Could be misused hugely unless there were limitations like with repping. Idiots and noobs would just go round randomly groaning posts for no reason. No one has the energy to randomly -rep for no reason, but groaning would be so easy to do.
As for Taking away rep but keeping the bars, rep plays a big part in "trusting" people especially throughout the auctions. Dont ask me why, It's so easy to make a tonne of good posts, then scam someone. Anyway it'd be unfair for people with little rep, who contribute to the forum a lot and theres no good way to actually see that they have.
Possibly taking away rep all together, or leaving it. Rep will always be misused but it helps people who take pride in internet popularity. Maybe even someone with low self-esteem who comes on and checks their rep and feels happy. lol, people will deny it but most have done it.
Anyway, all in all, personally for me I have no problem what happens, as long as I still get to use the site and chat to the awesome people on it, you could replace rep with cake or something, or just remove it entirely, most likely the only people that would kick up a fuss are the people who have high rep or take pride in their rep. :s
"Get rid of -Rep/+rep, but Keep Thanks, Nominations, Groans. (make groans worth 3 -rep)."
Could be misused hugely unless there were limitations like with repping. Idiots and noobs would just go round randomly groaning posts for no reason. No one has the energy to randomly -rep for no reason, but groaning would be so easy to do.
As for Taking away rep but keeping the bars, rep plays a big part in "trusting" people especially throughout the auctions. Dont ask me why, It's so easy to make a tonne of good posts, then scam someone. Anyway it'd be unfair for people with little rep, who contribute to the forum a lot and theres no good way to actually see that they have.
Possibly taking away rep all together, or leaving it. Rep will always be misused but it helps people who take pride in internet popularity. Maybe even someone with low self-esteem who comes on and checks their rep and feels happy. lol, people will deny it but most have done it.
Anyway, all in all, personally for me I have no problem what happens, as long as I still get to use the site and chat to the awesome people on it, you could replace rep with cake or something, or just remove it entirely, most likely the only people that would kick up a fuss are the people who have high rep or take pride in their rep. :s
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