• There has been a recent cluster of spammers accessing BARFer accounts and posting spam. To safeguard your account, please consider changing your password. It would be even better to take the additional step of enabling 2 Factor Authentication (2FA) on your BARF account. Read more here.

Rep is gone?

I always thought that the Rep points were an interesting experiment in trying to provide an "at-a-glance" way of gauging the quality of a posters content. Rough, but just an indication.

I think that as time went on, it became less useful to new users as a form of useful measure, and more a source of bragging rights (both pos and neg) for long time, frequent posters.

How about, instead of a reputation system on an internet forum, if you feel compelled to know if information provided by someone is genuinely noteworty, you make arrangements to meet that person, in-person, and judge for yourself over a long conversation over coffee, or before or after a ride? :)

My God! Did I say that? Meeting people in person? :laughing A bit like a Ninja in the shadows shouting out "Hey! I'm over here!" :teeth

Stefan
 
^^^^^^^
glad to see you're doing so well!!!
You should attend a meet and great nothing but love here
 
Roadstergal said:
Everyone can tell I give good advice because my avatar shows me getting a knee down.
Click to expand...

How much better would it be though if your Avatar showed you having both knees down...

** personal disclaimer -- I am on pain medication at the moment **

Setfan (see? I can't even spell my name correctly)
 
Feanor said:
I always thought that the Rep points were an interesting experiment in trying to provide an "at-a-glance" way of gauging the quality of a posters content. Rough, but just an indication.

I think that as time went on, it became less useful to new users as a form of useful measure, and more a source of bragging rights (both pos and neg) for long time, frequent posters.

How about, instead of a reputation system on an internet forum, if you feel compelled to know if information provided by someone is genuinely noteworty, you make arrangements to meet that person, in-person, and judge for yourself over a long conversation over coffee, or before or after a ride? :)

My God! Did I say that? Meeting people in person? :laughing A bit like a Ninja in the shadows shouting out "Hey! I'm over here!" :teeth

Stefan
Click to expand...

says Mr. Elusive himself....Isn't there a bounty for the first person who meets you, J, or Ariana? :teeth
 
Lester Green said:
says Mr. Elusive himself....Isn't there a bounty for the first person who meets you, J, or Ariana? :teeth
Click to expand...

It was a little like the pot calling itself black wasn't it? :laughing

Oh, by the way if you called her "Ariana" or even sent something to her with her name spelled that way, it would take you literally months to get back on her good side again! :wow

Stefan
 
Roadstergal said:
Everyone can tell I give good advice because my avatar shows me getting a knee down.
Click to expand...
No, they can tell because it says, "Full of Shit" above that picture. Only a truly knowledgable person would be so self-deprecating.
Feanor said:
Oh, by the way if you called her "Ariana" or even sent something to her with her name spelled that way, it would take you literally months to get back on her good side again! :wow
Stefan
Click to expand...
I use to live with a Russian ArianNa. What a fox......

Come on out to Budman's safety tent and give a hand. We can compare MRIs and decide which liter bike we shouldn't buy next. :teeth
 
Last edited:
Feanor said:
It was a little like the pot calling itself black wasn't it? :laughing

Oh, by the way if you called her "Ariana" or even sent something to her with her name spelled that way, it would take you literally months to get back on her good side again! :wow

Stefan
Click to expand...

Sorry my bad..Eri.
 
Feanor said:
I know :| I have an appointment for more scans on Wednesday, I'll have them be on the lookout for anomalies :laughing
Click to expand...

Come out to Skips in Concord, after your brain scans.

Just tell Zed, you're taking the day off. :twofinger

Zed: You'll dress only in attire specially sanctioned by MiB special services. You'll conform to the identity we give you, eat where we tell you, live where we tell you. From now on you'll have no identifying marks of any kind. You'll not stand out in any way. Your entire image is crafted to leave no lasting memory with anyone you encounter. You're a rumor, recognizable only as deja vu and dismissed just as quickly. You don't exist; you were never even born. Anonymity is your name. Silence your native tongue. You're no longer part of the System. You're above the System. Over it. Beyond it. We're "them." We're "they." We are the Men in Black.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top