Your REPUTATION and You (Pt.2)

[whitestuff]

I have pants? I don't usually wear pants here...

[Grungebob]

Originally Posted by Revdyer

This is a very interesting development. <laughing and laughing>

Unfortunately, at the moment, I don't get any title when I cursor over the boxes. <shrug>

When I move my cursor over yours it says Penguin With a Machine Gun.

[nyys]

Originally Posted by Grungebob

When I move my cursor over yours it says Penguin With a Machine Gun.

Same here.

[J4Jandar]

Originally Posted by Revdyer

This is a very interesting development. <laughing and laughing>

Unfortunately, at the moment, I don't get any title when I cursor over the boxes. <shrug>

Well, you still have "is hot lava death" and "a man of the cloth" to look forward to. Will you settle for "penguin with a machine gun"?

[Revdyer]

The cursor-over worked for me, and I've got my tuxedo on now. <grin>

[Cavalier]

Fun times! Thanks to The Powers That Be™ for the revamp.

[Jim]

Looks good to me! And there are some rules that weren't there before the change. Nice!

Jim

[Agent Minivann]

Quick question about the "No Reciprocating Rep" rule. In the past I have given "Good Trade Rep" to someone I have just completed a good transaction with. Is that now considered "Illegal" or can this be an exception?

[IAmBatman]

Originally Posted by LordRaidor

• DO NOT Rep the same X people over and over again (i.e. form "reputation cliques"). Members caught giving Rep consistently all within the same 'group' of users will be punished.

On this topic, what if you happen to frequent one section of the forums and certain threads within that section that are frequented only by a small handful of people? If you're only interacting with the same "group" of users on a regular basis, should you refrain from pos repping them when you think they're doing good work or making good posts due to fear of reputation cliques?
There are really only about a dozen people or so using the Marvel Custom forums on a regular basis and that's where I spend all of my time and that's where people I work with on projects make posts that I care about and appreciate and enjoy. This seems like something that would fall under the "clique" umbrella, but at the same time I don't feel like it's an abuse or misuse of rep, but how rep was intended to be used (as feedback for posts I care about/appreciate/enjoy). Does that make sense?

[dok]

I love the re-scaled rep bars and titles. I just want a minor clarification here:

Originally Posted by LordRaidor

DO NOT Rep the same X people over and over again (i.e. form "reputation cliques"). Members caught giving Rep consistently all within the same 'group' of users will be punished.

I think I understand the point of this, which is to prevent quid-pro-quo reputation-building schemes. However, I frequently find myself hitting the "you must spread some reputation around before repping (Jexik/mccombju/ollie/fomox/etc) again" wall. I suppose I may be in the "theoryscape nerd clique", however, I feel I'm repping these posts for the right reasons. I just want to make sure that the admins will be looking at the "reputation clique" cases individually and determining whether there's an issue.

[IAmBatman]

Dok - you're hitting the same issue I am as well. You tend to frequent the same areas and the same types of threads in this forum and within those threads there are certain posters you find yourself consistently appreciating the efforts of. For you it's the competitive and strategy sections - for me it's Marvel customs. That doesn't mean we're trying to artificially build the rep of people in those sections, it just means those are the areas of the site we frequent and those are the posts we appreciate in those areas.

[Aldin]

The rules against reciprocation and cliques will be interpreted by the admins observing the infractions. There are going to be judgment calls. That said, the idea is to rep community-building individual posts, not particular members. Rep for everyone you just played a forum game with would be bad, rep given to specific game posts that you really appreciated would be good. Trades are a bit trickier in that you're really repping the person and not a post, but I wouldn't personally be a stickler if you repped the post that offered the item for which you traded, since that post enhanced your experience here at HSers. Members that are heavily involved in customs (for example) will probably be giving more rep to people who post in the customs areas. That's not a clique unless the admins start to perceive the rep as being given for something other than apprecaition of specific individual posts.

~Aldin, reiterating that we should all think of rep in terms of posts and not people