Reputation System - How It Works

[DjPete]

I was gonna give you a point DJ for introducing this system but I couldn't find the button under your avatar mate.

Hey Admins/Mods - while I respect the fact that youhave sen it necessary to impose this type of system on us, it is hardly cricket to elevate yourselves to NOT being able to be targeted by a/any member who sees one of you as having breached whatsoever rule/convention/language code etc. It is a little too lofty methinks.

What say you? One for all and all for one......standard.


Max

+1, Another case for this stupid reputation system to go. It's just a big tug job really. I'm still interested in how this "mates of the admin" end up being moderators who then become "immune" from being voted from the big brother house.

At least Busgo made an honest attempt to answer the questions posed by myself. Otherwise this is just a melbourne takeover.

Cheerio all.

[Volvi]

Hey well done guys youve just driven DJ outa the forum and club, you happy now? or you still planning to do more damage? anymore you wanna drive out? hey while your at it why not award mechanx some more points for being the best member this board has ever had.

Some of you should take a good hard look at yourselves.

[copperjosh]

Bunch of sooks, let it all be. Generally from what i've seen in my life, the more you try to impose restrictions and micromanage things, the harder and more messy it becomes.

I really think the reputation thing is rubbish & and any related stuff is a waste of time.

No hard feelings, but maybe instead of spending 24 hours a day trying to crack down on all this "serious" fighting, maybe you guys should go out and exercise, get some fresh air. Its just a forum/club afterall. People come and go all the time, deal with it.

[maggot]

Yeah well done mate, you're a prime fuckin example of the tossers that have caused this shit. maybe next time you can take your own advice and keep your f*&^ing opinion out of a thread that has nothing to do with you especially when its nothing more than you trying to inflame the situation or please feel free to bestow upon all the people on this board some more pearls of wisdom from all your years of experience...

there are more than a few people accountable for this shit and im sure I've contributed my share as well but as I said last week now I've sorted out any buisness I had to finish im done here. Volvi I hope the site can one day get back to what it was meant to be and used to be but at the moment I've got better things to do than read all the abuse and shit on the board. I know having a go at Josh is somewhat hypocritical of me but him trying to make light of the fact that someone who was as important to the club as Pete has pulled the plug due to constant shit slinging pisses me off.

feel free to delete/edit whatever to this post if its deemed offensive im past caring and im gone too.

[Volvi]

I have now switched off the reputation system. DJ recognised we had a problem and sought to alleviate it with that system by getting peer involvment and for the group in general to have a say in the matter by getting theyre opinions on a member thru the rep system. He tried. But the system failed dismally. Instead of destructive posters getting negatives to hilight their behaviour and perhaps attempt to quieten them down, it had the opposite effect. They were awarded medals for theyre behaviour. And some of the guilty ones awarded negatives to those they simply wanted to piss off. So the system failed and is now switched off. Ok well all it did was prove that the general public cannot be trusted to partake in decision making. Fair enough, dont say you didnt have your chance to.

Now I am faced with 2 choices:

1. Allow the free for all to continue in the name of "free speech" which we all hold dear but obviously abused by some. Or -

2. Initiate some rules to preserve the integrity of the board.

If No.1 were to continue this board will continue with its ups and downs sometimes to the slums. Its obvious that self policing wont work with some characters who obviously cant help themselves. So I am left with no choice if I want to protect this board and not for myself I might add, but for its future as a valuable source of information and exchange of ideas with members who share a common interest.

I am left with no alternative but to issue some rules of ettiquete and behaviour. I personally loath rules but its obvious it has become necessary. So over the next week or so I will be consulting with admins and others in looking to formulate such a set and will ask our admins to enforce them when necessary. I will try to make them easy and not hard and so the great majority of posters will have no difficulty with them, however should curtail the destructive elements. I hope that I will have your support in this and for those of you that dont, to bad! I have a responsibility to all the members here and would be derilect in my duty if I do nothing.

[mechanx]

Your just jelous volvi ,because you never got any points? I totally agree with you josh ,there all a bunch of sooks.