Gray Reputation

[WaltP]

OK, how does someone give reputation that's gray? What does it mean?

And can the comment box be a required field when giving reputation?

[jbennet]

Greay means the person who gave you the rep was a newbie. newbie rep isnt worth anything, its neutural. you have to accumulate a certain amount of time/posts in order for your rep to count for anything. This is to prevent people making multiple accounts to wage rep wars

[cscgal]

> And can the comment box be a required field when giving reputation?
Why? Sometimes I just want to give someone kudos for a good post without having anything more to say. Overall, the simpler it is to give rep, the more accurate it will be in the long run, because you're not limiting giving rep to the people who want to take the time to type out personal messages.

[WaltP]

> And can the comment box be a required field when giving reputation? Why? Sometimes I just want to give someone kudos for a good post without having anything more to say.

That's fine. But I'd be interested why someone gave bad rep on an innocuous post.

[Nichito]

then, why not better make the comment box a required field when giving bad rep? this way at least you know why you are being bad repped... how about it?

[John A]

then, why not better make the comment box a required field when giving bad rep? this way at least you know why you are being bad repped... how about it?

That's the way it used to be. But people just typed a period or some random letters, making a forced comment absolutely useless.

[Nichito]

I guess it would be a pretty hard work for mods... but, why not validating bad rep points? I mean, before they are assigned to someone, being checked if the reason is valid by a mod?

[cscgal]

Because reputation is subjective ... it's someone's personal opinion as to whether "they agree" or "they disagree" with someone else's post.

It wouldn't make sense for it to be moderated any more than it would make sense for voting in a poll to be moderated or rating a thread from 1 to 5 would be.

[John A]

And the people that need their reputation to be "moderated" obviously are taking reputation far too seriously. I used to care more about, but now, eh... It's also a feature that is somewhat broken, in my opinion.

[Ancient Dragon]

The only reason to monitor rep comments is to filter out objectional language and the language filter should do that. Otherwise I could care less about the comments, other than to read them and possibly find out any problems I may have caused.

[WolfPack]

Who cares about geek lounge reputation anyway? It is the reputation points and comments of Narue (has never given me anything), Salem and the rest of the regulars, that I get in the C/C++ forums that I really care about. Even a grey coloured thanks rep from a newbie in the C/C++ forums are worth a 100 "I agree" reputation points in the geeks lounge to me.

[Nichito]

well... that are all good points, but i meant moderating rep points that have no reason to be...

i mean... i don't care about rep points (i'd probably get -rep for that though), but there are people that actually do... that is why i concern...

that would be to avoid what joeprogrammer said... that people gives away -rep points to everyone with no reason at all, and fill the comment field with random letters... that is what my point was... not moderate the points as in the moderators point of view, but having a subjective, non selective, point of view and moderating those points given with no reason...

By the way... that was a good one... its out in the field where rep points are worth...

[Serunson]

how much rep do u need to get the second block? ~ it really annoying that i still only have 1 :( ............

[christina>you]

I think you have to have 100??

[peter_budo]

Every 100 points you get new block.
Now, however reputation points seems to be pointless as point are given just for complimentary note or deffending your buddy in coffee house and not stuff like reporting bad posts or valuable information in technical section where everything actualy started. So choose your alliance

[~s.o.s~]

> it really annoying that i still only have 1
Start contributing, they would automatically grow.

[John A]

In my opinion, reputation should just be disabled. At least the point system. Too many users wonder what reputation does in the first place, writing an FAQ would do little to help, judging by the number of people that read the rules or use code tags.

Negative reputation is nearly completely useless, because if you negative-rep someone, chances are they have friends who will give them rep back.

Positive reputation is usually pointless, because it's handed out for stupid reasons. As an example of this, try looking through some of the posting games. It's amazing how much reputation is handed there. (I know, I don't post there, but I just happened to stumble on it when I was looking at some user's "latest reputation".)

From the way I understand it, reputation wasn't designed to be subjective. It was supposed to be a gauge of whether or not the post was good -- not if you agree with their opinion or not. In theory, you could give positive reputation to a post you don't agree with, as long as it's well-written.

Of course, we're all human, and we tend to give reputation for completely useless reasons, we're more likely to give reputation to our friends, and the net result is that reputation is screwed up. Just because I have something like the fourth-highest reputation doesn't mean I'm really that smart.

The one good thing I see in reputation is comments on posts you've made. I wouldn't be heartbroken if the points system was removed and just the comments were left in, so you can still let a user know whether or not you approve of their post.

[~s.o.s~]

Amen to that. I completely agree that reputation is no measure of your helpfulness.

According to me, Salem is the most reputable person around, considering that I haven't seen his single post out of the C / C++ forum -- in short hard earned, well deserved reputation.

[jbennet]

If you check my CP you will see that like 70% of my rep is from people who i have helped in the winxp/2k forum

[christina>you]

And yet people are getting good reps for saying the rep system is worthless. =D That's interesting.

;-) Jk.