Review of the rep system!

I know you're a busy man, but I would appreciate if we could at least get some feedback about the likelihood of a possibility of a review of the rep system... Cheers!

Bring back Neg rep.

Well, somebody had to say it.

This tbh.

I understand it was removed to create a 'less negative atmosphere', but have you read half of the threads on here? It's not -rep that made a bad atmosphere it's people + that is life

Readd negative rep pleaseeee.

They removed it because some users complained that they were being negged too much, citing it as a "bullying tool". This is, of course, absolute nonsense - the people who complained need to step out into the real world.

If they were being -repped too much there would have been a justifiable reason for it surely - If it was a certain group of users doing it to troll, then it's possible to disable them from giving out -/+rep at all which would have solved the issue.

Really was an overreaction and I agree it's nonsense

Absolutely. There was always a reason for being negged, and that reason was: I don't agree with what you've said. It was as simple as that. It was never a bullying tool, it was merely an effective system of gauging the quality of posts and those that were posting.

A lot of people excessively took negative reputation to heart, when they shouldn't have done. I think the rep system with its negative reputation inclusion was quite fair, to be honest. Fair enough, there were some users with high amounts of rep that liked to neg for fun, but I don't think they were many in number - I think the majority of green-gemmed users were/are quite sensible and reasonable when allocating rep.

Thinking about it, I actually feel that the rep system needs to be completely revitalised. I don't like the idea of just having rep gems, they're not specific enough, and I don't think people actually care about them anymore. There's so many types of posts, and those doing the posting. I think they both need to be described in more detail - a user with a high amount of rep gems could mean anything.

I would propose scrapping rep gems, and the whole 'thumbs up'/'thumbs down' option for posts, in favour of a system where you get the option to describe each post in more detail. For example, you could have certain options to select on each post, such as 'helpful', 'unhelpful', 'comedic', 'trollish', 'creative', 'well-rationalised' and so on. The option that is most popularly selected on each post, would be how that particular post is branded. For example, a post that has the 'creative' option selected the most, would be branded clearly on the thread as 'creative'. This would then feed into the badge system that's recently been implemented, and you would get a badge every time you reach a certain amount of posts that have been branded in a particular way.

I don't know if this has been suggested before, but I think it's a pretty good idea.

Thinking about it, I actually feel that the rep system needs to be completely revitalised. I don't like the idea of just having rep gems, they're not specific enough, and I don't think people actually care about them anymore. There's so many types of posts, and those doing the posting. I think they both need to be described in more detail - a user with a high amount of rep gems could mean anything.

I would propose scrapping rep gems, and the whole 'thumbs up'/'thumbs down' option for posts, in favour of a system where you get the option to describe each post in more detail. For example, you could have certain options to select on each post, such as 'helpful', 'unhelpful', 'comedic', 'trollish', 'creative', 'well-rationalised' and so on. The option that is most popularly selected on each post, would be how that particular post is branded. For example, a post that has the 'creative' option selected the most, would be branded clearly on the thread as 'creative'. This would then feed into the badge system that's recently been implemented, and you would get a badge every time you reach a certain amount of posts that have been branded in a particular way.

I don't know if this has been suggested before, but I think it's a pretty good idea.

I like that idea. You're right. I really don't care about how many rep gems I have. It's meaningless. I do, however, like repping posts, but the reason I do so varies - from posts that make me laugh, to posts that are helpful, to posts that are well-reasoned, and so on. So, your suggestion makes sense, and it could indeed work well with the badge system, as well as offer some quality control on advice threads that receive unhelpful advice.

Thanks! I don't think it's a good idea to have both badges and rep gems, it doesn't make much sense. What do you think?

Just to add to this idea, it would perhaps be better to make it so that a post only gets branded when it's reached a certain number of people that have selected that particular option. Also, I think it would be good if once you got a badge for being 'creative' or 'well-rationalised', for instance, if it were to show up on your profile and post-bit more clearly. At the moment it just says '1 badge' on your post-bit, so it's not very clear.

Plus, badges don't show up on your post-bit on the old TSR thread layout. It shows up on the new layout, though. So it could be improved a bit more, really.

Aye, if we're going to have a badge system, we might as well make good use of it and get rid of rep gems in the process. Rep gems are pointless ever since neg rep was removed.

And I agree, there should be a requirement of at least three or five particular umm... reps, for lack of a better word. Probably five.

Perhaps in the post-bit it could show the amount of badges a person has, and then if people hover their mouse over it it could show the type of badges that member has earned? Otherwise, if a person has earned several badges, it could get a bit crowded.

Bring back Neg rep.

Well, somebody had to say it.