i ALSO miss reputation

colours said:

likes are more positive, people's feelings don't get hurt, basically.

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Yea but there's a difference between bein cruel/disrespectful/mean and just failing to vote for someone or give someone props.

The like system is abused all the time.

only bring back neg rep

the great equaliser

I think Angie brought up some v practical points,l. Rly it all comes down to the tone y'all wan set tho. I encourage you all to think about the maturity level and tbh honest I don't see how a negative rep/dislike would be any dif then anything else. You know who's who from browsing

I used to get interesting post/rep comments from angry ROM hackers. It'd be fun

I too miss the 3 reputation points i'd amassed.

fun fact: everyone still has a hidden reputation value which is determined on god knows what sort of variables (i think it involves likes, post comments when they were still around, etc., but goes up or down for really bizarre reasons), and which is still seen by the forum software. i think mine was in the negative 1000s last i checked.

colours said:

The main thing is that every neg rep was seen as cruel/disrespectful/mean by virtue of it being negative.

The like system can be abused, it's just difficult and impractical to. Not to mention no one really cares that much about likes to begin with; they don't reflect social status like reputation does which is the main difference.

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I think positive rep was abused more than neg rep tbh. I mean you would see like 10 or so people that had a ridiculous amount of rep given most of what they posted was garbage, and they all happened to VM each other frequently? If you mentioned it to one of them this was the usual response:



Followed by an onslaught of neg rep on all of your posts.

Mobile Tsk said:

I think positive rep was abused more than neg rep tbh. I mean you would see like 10 or so people that had a ridiculous amount of rep given most of what they posted was garbage, and they all happened to VM each other frequently? If you mentioned it to one of them this was the usual response:

Followed by an onslaught of neg rep on all of your posts.

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I'd neg rep you for this post

hey ur that rude staff member who sent me a PM about my behaviour a few months ago waddup

Christos said:

I'd neg rep you for this post

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I know u would <3333

im down to re-implement reputation

Did it existed? Why? I mean, we are not in highschool...

I wasn't here for that, but they had it on trial period on some other forums I used to be in. People often abused it to either bring people down to help out their friends. Needless to say they took away the negative reputation, but kept the positive rep.

Achromatic said:

"I miss post comments" said literally no PC user ever

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I genuinely do miss post comments.

Achromatic said:

Why? Now I'm curious. 8)

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I liked the fact that you could respond to individual posts without having to resort to PM or VM, but not necessarily derail the conversation at hand in the thread. I also liked that it was a personal effort to actually provide one, that writing a message said more than just clicking a 'like' button (even though the 'likes' have their own benefits).

what reputation

smocks said:

what reputation

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Pretty much what half the members thought at the time.

Lucid said:

The like system is abused all the time.

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Abused in what sense, though? With reputation there was an actual visual way to see what a member's reputation was and, even though it didn't really matter, it did affect something that not only other members could see (and make of what they would), but the comments would go straight to you (for better or for worse).

Likes are pretty arbitrary and how many you have can only be seen by you. What they're worth and their overall usage is purely contextual and even if someone fishes for them...I mean, that's that.

the community is different now so maybe members could handle it.... either way you can always disable it/hide it. i don't remember exactly

I am so glad the reputation system is gone, considering how easy it was for certain people to give negative rep over and over, complete with the sometimes nasty comments that would come at times. Not to mention how biased the system was, given how you would have to spread it to many other users, while certain ones would build up quite a large reputation score.

I think the post-liking system we have now is perfectly fine.