Shoutbox

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Originally posted by Guido
we are not in this thread just to bug WDZ or to implement a useless system just to have green or red numbers in our profiles

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Whaaaaaaaaaat??? Why not?

I personally think Guido's neutral vote idea was quite useful. Also, you're right, it would overrule the elitist post count (although this doesn't mean it should be got rid of!), which was probably the original intention.

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Originally posted by Guido
But with that point of view: why should we show reputations at all to other users then? The aim of showing the comments is for new members to know why someone is rated negatively or positively: which not only makes them sure about who to trust, but also ensures they won't behave badly unless they want to get an equally pathethic reputation.

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Agreed. Reputations and reasons should be public, or there's no bloody point in them.

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Originally posted by fluffy_lobster
We all know what everyone's like from their posts...

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Wrong. The person who sees the posts knows what they're like. For example, that spammer guy the other week could post now and I would be nice to him because I didn't see his posts because they were deleted. Plus a member might not post much, but when they do, they post very informatively, and not many people spot that.

Idea: how about a 'report comment' button, if the comments are added? Could just be the 'report' button at the bottom-right of the posts... but next to each comment. That way if they're abusive or something, or heavily biased because of personal conflicts, they can be reported to mods/admins.

I also like CookieRevised's idea of 14 days, a month is a bit long.(And, if I'm being pedantic, how long's a month? 28 days? 31? )

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Originally posted by WDZ
Afraid you're going to get a bad reputation?

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Nope. I'm afraid one person is gonna vote people unfairly, or sway their opinions, and so they should have a right to have a say. Also, free speech? I mean, this could very easily turn into races - the first person to get +1 could vote others as -1, and therefore stop them from being able to post... well, you get the idea, anyway. I think everyone should have a right to an opinion.

Edit: new thing. Should the list of votes for a person's reputation show the voters' current reputations or their reputations at the time? Or both? I don't like the idea of at the time, but think about the others...