Rep Points.

[christina>you]

I don't necessarily like the rep system. I get bad reps for no reason... such as playing on the word games, and I don't even know who gave them to me. =/

[John A]

I've only ever been repped down once. I guess it's due to the fact that I'm so nice and polite to everyone, never complain, and agree with just about anybody.

But seriously, I don't think a system showing who's sending the bad rep your way would be necessarily bad. The only negative thing I could see potentially is that if I give negative reputation to a member (who deserves it, by all means), then I'd be afraid that they being an idiot, would come back and try to get me, starting a "rep war".

[christina>you]

true....

[KevinADC]

Maybe its an age difference thing, me being 50 years old and you being much younger. But why do you even care that you got a bad rep in the word game forum? If I were to ever paticipate in that forum and someone actually took the time to bad rep me I think I would laugh. Even if someone bad rep'd me for no good reason in a programming forum and I actually noticed, I would be ammused. I guess you younger members take that stuff seriously?

[KevinADC]

Jeez christina>you, you have 2100+ posts in like 2 months? I'm speechless.

[Infarction]

Jeez christina>you, you have 2100+ posts in like 2 months? I'm speechless.

Join the club. Officer positions still available, for a limited time only.

Watch, I'll get more -rep for this too :icon_rolleyes:

[~s.o.s~]

Watch, I'll get more -rep for this too

:D

I guess you would be more than happy to get the name of repper...

[jbennet]

I gave you some +rep.

I like rep. It gives you something to aim for (as do the stars and poster titles). I have got 8 bad rep blocks in a week :( - thats over half my total rep gone due to not typing preoperly. Well now im going to try harder to type nicely.

[christina>you]

I gave you some +rep. I like rep. It gives you something to aim for (as do the stars and poster titles). I have got 8 bad rep blocks in a week :( - thats over half my total rep gone due to not typing preoperly. Well now im going to try harder to type nicely.

Thanks for the rep :) But right after you, someone gave me another bad rep on this thread and told me to stop whining. That's pretty low. People are dumb.

[christina>you]

Jeez christina>you, you have 2100+ posts in like 2 months? I'm speechless.

What can I say? I don't have a life ;)

[jbennet]

Well I'm actually trying to type nicely now so that I get more good rep and less bad ones :)

[~s.o.s~]

Is it just me or has there being a real increase in the rep activity recently? ;-)

[jbennet]

Yes there has. I had 60 since 2005 and in the last 3 months its gone up to nearly 200

[Infarction]

Is it just me or has there being a real increase in the rep activity recently? ;-)

What with it being the talk of the town, yeah but that's to be expected.

[joshSCH]

Jeez christina>you, you have 2100+ posts in like 2 months? I'm speechless.

It's those word games that she plays!;) lol.. I'm no1 to talk about that though.

But seriously, I think something should be changed about the rep system.. It has a specific purpose, and people abuse it way too often. I think it would be beneficial for people's names to be posted when they rep. For one, it would stop people from abusing the system. If you neg. rep someone for a stupid reason, you will be neg. repped back. But on the same token, if the neg. rep is deserved, I don't think there will be a rep war. If some1 neg. repped me for a good reason, I would not be angry or neg. rep them back.

[Rashakil Fol]

You and I might be robots who never react emotionally towards people's behavior, but a large enough proportion of people respond with verbal violence when others damage their fake self-esteem, because they take their lives too seriously. Wars between people who care about the number in their Reputation column are already tempered by the need to "spread around" points.

[KevinADC]

It's those word games that she plays!;) lol.. I'm no1 to talk about that though.

But seriously, I think something should be changed about the rep system.. It has a specific purpose, and people abuse it way too often. I think it would be beneficial for people's names to be posted when they rep. For one, it would stop people from abusing the system. If you neg. rep someone for a stupid reason, you will be neg. repped back. But on the same token, if the neg. rep is deserved, I don't think there will be a rep war. If some1 neg. repped me for a good reason, I would not be angry or neg. rep them back.

First, I think anyone that takes rep seriousy needs to take a break from their computer.

Daniweb seems to have a group of members that is here more for the entertainment value and less the webdev stuff. Those members will abuse, and I use that word loosely, the rep system, seeing it as just part of the fun and games. I call it the myspace crowd for lack of a better description.

[tgreer]

The trend of Daniweb attracting more and more of the myspace crowd these days should be a serious wake-up call.

[davidcairns]

Personally I tend to agree with Kevin, though perhaps not so vehemently :) Rep is something you can only truly collect with personal experience and discussion. Some random rep gained from one or two posts will never convince me that someone is more or less knowledgable, only through my own discussions will I garner that information.

As for the MySpace crowd, I got a PM from one of them saying "your from London, cool". Didn't even have a question to ask. Couldn't have been more than 12.

[tgreer]

Obviously we're faced with a changing demographic. In terms of the success of the forum as a business, that might not be a bad thing (this is the social networking crowd, after all). But if the goal is to be a top-notch technical site for working developers, then we're heading in the wrong direction. It's like turning a university into a shopping mall.