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Rep is gone?

Glad it's gone, though it was nice to get or give quick feedback on a post.

Postwhores tend to break any system designed for the baseline. The leghump factor makes it even worse.

Maybe the answer lies in a sort of hybrid, where individual posts can get +1 / -1 ratings, but one person can only affect another's overall rep in a limited way. If Alice gives Bob +1 rep on four posts, but -1 on the fifth, Bob gets 4/5 of a point from Alice. In other words, a person can only give (or take) one point to/from another.

Or something like that. Even just throwing the whole thing out forever is fine by me. But please keep the post counts hidden. The whoring is bad enough as it is.

BARF has pretty much always been a classic case study for this:

Robert R1 said:
Rep doesn't work due to human psychology. We already have a pack mentality and it just promotes that further. Clicks promote their own and knock down commonly labled "enemies." Those who are not part of any click are labled outcasts and get it from both sides. Most of this isn't even done conciously.
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I got all my rep because I'm a dumb blonde. :party

Now I got no rep, and I'm still a dumb blonde. :rofl
 
I have nothing against postwhores, they funny and they buff the stats which is good for the board, yes?
 
Maybe show how many people have added a poster to their "ignore list". Oh, shit! You can't read this, I'm on your ignore list. I'm talking to myself, again.
 
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god damnit...no more heart warming messages about my wonderful posing
 
budman said:
REP was fun... and could have been a very good thing. Unfortunately is spiralled into barf madness and became to useless over all. To much a Popularity contest.. and I had to give in and agree to remove it..
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Dude...I called that when it first came out. I compared the Rep system to a high-school popularity contest. :x
 
the worst feature of the 'Rep' was the fact that some gave more rep than others.

That allows e-thuggery.
 
I made new friends through rep
All those phone numbers....
.....Poof gone!!
Now how the heck are we to validate the turn arounds?
 
mikhail said:
This is probably for the best. Plus, it was slightly annoying seeing attractive females get 11 green squares after only being around for a month or less. Leghumping for the lose.
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Happy Hornet said:
I made new friends through rep
All those phone numbers.........Poof gone!!
Now how the heck are we to validate the turn arounds?
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Ah hah! :rofl
 
^^^^^^^^
Dang!!!
I can't rep you!
 
Oh boy....:party
I had to show-up to say:

"I told ya so."

Gees, I don't get to do that too often. Well, I do, but people like to forget that they had the answers before they act.

Whoop! Back to semi-adulthood, now?

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JUST f*c&ing with ya' all.......honest.

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Oh, hmmmm......

"Great idea, boss."
:rofl
 
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