39 posts leads the reputation! Ozwinner dethroned!

[doug the slug]

Carrying on about Rep points is starting to make some people look like gooses.

To a large extent i agree, Clinton (except the plural of "goose" is "geese")

The whole thing is irrelevant to woodwork. when i first discovered the system, after being here about a month, probably (OK im slow), it was a good system. if you liked someone's post it was the quickest and easiest way to send them a personal message, just click on the scales. and back then reddies didnt hurt much either cos nobody had anywhere near as much rep altering points as they did yesterday, or even for that matter since the changes.

regardless of the fact that it was the common consensus of the forum as a whole that people reached the levels they did, many felt tha t the system had become imbalanced, and from mmy lofty perch in the top 20 of the forum i have to say i agree. with something approaching 400 rep altering points at my command , it wasnt like the old days where you just click the scales and type a quick message. i remember it took me several months to get all teh green lights on back then, and now ive seen someone do that with just one post!

like it or not the rep system is part of the furniture in here and sometimes the furniture needs repairing and thats what the admin and moderators have taken on as their thankless jobs (Thanks ,Guys, doing a wonderful job as always). by all means Clinton, turn yours off, thats your right, but I for one am looking to see what effect teh changes have on the system and am hoping that it will once again be a useful tool on the forum.

Thanks Neil and your team for all the hard work and for listening to the concerns of the members.

[journeyman Mick]

Clinton,
very good post - especially liked the bit about the propellor on the forehead , I'd give you a greenie but I don't do greenies or reddies

Mick

[echnidna]

Clinton,
very good post - especially liked the bit about the propellor on the forehead , I'd give you a greenie but I don't do greenies or reddies

Mick

I dunno how to do them too Mick

[JDarvall]

For instance, remember Age20boat (or whatever he was called) and that other idiot going on about factories in the eastern suburbs being a plot ? I don't think it would have been good if they could have fired off some reds.

Yeh, I remember him. He was a real BASTARD !....:mad: ...and apparently I was him !..... (I'm finally learning how to use this rolling eyes thing properly.....phew, took a while)

And remember that other prick ! Apricotreamer or whatever he was called.... He had a couple of practical jokes and you QUITE RIGHTLY rubbished the crap out of him !...glad HE'S gone too. He was a Bloody crude white trash redneck, if I'd ever seen one.

And remember that other guy....and that other guy, and the other guy ..........

[Shedhand]

Its so ho-hum.If I like someones comment/ contribution I'll say it publicly and send the fortunsate a PM. DIckheads I'll ignore.
Stop wasting your precious time Neil. Nitwits will be nitwits whatever you do.
Cheers

[ubeaut]

This will be the last post from me in this thread about the rep points.

A newbie has but 250 points to begin with, this equates to 1 point of reputation he can hand out.

As Doug said "like a spitball hitting a battleship" What I have done will hopefully make it more equitable for all.

Gumby - (just using you as an example) Yesterday 1 negative hit from you (what you all call A RED) would have wiped a newbie of all his points and put him 150 into the red taking away his ability to respond (not that he could have as he had to 20 posts before he could hit back). Currently you give only 41 points and would have to give credit to 20 more posters over the following 48 hrs before giving another to him. This might hopefully act as a cooling down period and give the newbie time to explain or clarify their situation, etc. (Example ended)

Yes he could hit back with his almighty 1 point, but that is highly unlikely because for starters he wouldn't have a clue what the hell rep points are. Lets face it most of you took a while to figure it out, if at all. Many still don't use them or want to have anything to do with them as they are far more interested in the woodwork.

It appears on the whole, that members use the points as they were intended. However there have been numerous times when it has got a bit out of hand, with pathetic tit for tat school yard retaliations. Not really fair especially when some members could hand out over 500 positive or negative points in 1 hit.

Lets leave it to it's own devices and and see how the new points system works out. If anyone feels the need to hand out a heap of reds to a newbie who is posting spam or causing problems, or similar, how about reporting the post and letting admin or mods sort it out, if indeed it needs sorting out in the first place.

Cheers - Neil

[outback]

Or, we could get the big kids to go round and knock his vegemite sandwich out of his hand at little lunch.

[doug the slug]

Gumby - (just using you as an example) Yesterday 1 negative hit from you (what you all call A RED) would have wiped a newbie of all his points and put him 150 into the red taking away his ability to respond (not that he could have as he had to 20 posts before he could hit back). Currently you give only 41 points and would have to give credit to 20 more posters over the following 48 hrs before giving another to him. This might hopefully act as a cooling down period and give the newbie time to explain or clarify their situation, etc. (Example ended)

Yes he could hit back with his almighty 1 point, but that is highly unlikely because for starters he wouldn't have a clue what the hell rep points are. Lets face it most of you took a while to figure it out, if at all. Many still don't use them or want to have anything to do with them as they are far more interested in the woodwork.Cheers - Neil

Neil it looks like this is going to work, well done to all who participated in rewriting the rules. i agree that i and many others on the forum had too much hitting power before. when I started as i said before it was just a handy way to send a quick bit of feedback one way or the other, and we were all in the habit of using them. but it takes all the fun out of it when you realise the hitting power some people had. i come here for the woodwork and the cameraderie, enjoy the jokes to help me relax after a long day etc. i dont need the pressure of "what is this 400 point reddie going to do to this newbie?". 50 points is fine, now we are using 600 grit to take the rough edges off instead of 40. (funny how this is almost exactly the inverse of rep altering points hey its a woodworking forum maybe we should invert the scale and award gritpoints, nothing else to do next weekend , Neil? ). i wont stress over that, and anything that deserves more than that is the moderators job. I hope everyone gives it a fair go.

[Gumby]

Gumby - (just using you as an example) Yesterday 1 negative hit from you (what you all call A RED) would have wiped a newbie of all his points and put him 150 into the red taking away his ability to respond[I]

Yep, I remember those times, they were the good old days