Who monitors the Neg Repers?

[Emizand]

Ok so if you receive negative reputation you can appeal and get it over turned. Fair enough. However is there a system in place to monitor if someone is abusing giving negative rep? Or are these self appointed judges free to neg rep to their hearts content. i.e. if somebody has n amount of their neg reps over turned do they see any consequences?

Emi

[karnokvolrath]

Ok so if you receive negative reputation you can appeal and get it over turned. Fair enough. However is there a system in place to monitor if someone is abusing giving negative rep? Or are these self appointed judges free to neg rep to their hearts content. i.e. if somebody has n amount of their neg reps over turned do they see any consequences?

Emi

If the same people get reported many times they can loose there rep skillz. This has happened to people before for both farming positive rep and exsessively negg'n/targeting people. "Most" people treat the rep system with decent respect so this rarely happens, but it has.

[ReaperAlexEU]

Ok so if you receive negative reputation you can appeal and get it over turned. Fair enough. However is there a system in place to monitor if someone is abusing giving negative rep? Or are these self appointed judges free to neg rep to their hearts content. i.e. if somebody has n amount of their neg reps over turned do they see any consequences?

Emi

memir says the mods keep an eye on people that keep abusing the neg rep button, so the answer is the forum mods do.

[Gkar]

Ok so if you receive negative reputation you can appeal and get it over turned. Fair enough. However is there a system in place to monitor if someone is abusing giving negative rep? Or are these self appointed judges free to neg rep to their hearts content. i.e. if somebody has n amount of their neg reps over turned do they see any consequences?

Emi

The mods aren't stupid. They have been very open in the past about the fact that you can receive a warning, infraction points, or the loss of your forum rep if you misbehave in giving out rep. Although we can't discuss specifics, we know that discipline has been used in the past.

[dkyle]

It is possible to get infractions for giving inappropriate neg rep.

The forum mods monitor neg rep, but I doubt they check unreported rep, so be sure to report undeserved neg rep.

[Vellrad]

If the same people get reported many times they can loose there rep skillz. This has happened to people before for both farming positive rep and exsessively negg'n/targeting people. "Most" people treat the rep system with decent respect so this rarely happens, but it has.

Actually, most people treats neg rep as 'Zomg! he disagreeded! Lets neg rep him!!!1!' and pos as 'Zomg! Its so funny! Lets pos rep him!!!1!'

[dingal]

A better question would be "Who actually cares about forum rep?"

Seriously.

Do you look at someone's rep level and assume they will be providing you with useful information? I never even notice nor care.

[rest]

What I wanna know is who neg reps the monitors??

[Memnir]

Ok so if you receive negative reputation you can appeal and get it over turned. Fair enough. However is there a system in place to monitor if someone is abusing giving negative rep? Or are these self appointed judges free to neg rep to their hearts content. i.e. if somebody has n amount of their neg reps over turned do they see any consequences?

Emi

The Mods do. And they have handed out punitive measures to those who've abused the Rep system in the past. But, I doubt highly that they monitor each and every Neg handed out per-day.


So... report any you feel is undeserved. Because if the person handing it out has a track record of doing so for no good reason, they'll answer for it. Now, I'm not saying you should report all Neg Rep - just the ones you feel you got for reasons not in accordance with the rules. I've gotten Negged when I know I deserved it, and I don't report those. Doing that would slow things down for legit complaints, and sour the Devs on the whole appeals thing.

Just sayin'.

[dkyle]

Actually, most people treats neg rep as 'Zomg! he disagreeded! Lets neg rep him!!!1!' and pos as 'Zomg! Its so funny! Lets pos rep him!!!1!'

I don't know... I post a lot of things in serious disagreement with a lot of people, and I rarely get neg rep. Most of my pos rep is from humor posts, though.

[dkyle]

What I wanna know is who neg reps the monitors??

We used to be able to...

[karnokvolrath]

Actually, most people treats neg rep as 'Zomg! he disagreeded! Lets neg rep him!!!1!' and pos as 'Zomg! Its so funny! Lets pos rep him!!!1!'

Well...maybe. I prolly souldnt talk for "most" people i guess. I Pos for good informative posts, and have only negged one person for blantantly trolling/stirring the pot/being an a$$hat. Sometimes if its REALLY funny ill pos rep, but i try not to.

I'm not saying you should report all Neg Rep - just the ones you feel you got for reasons not in accordance with the rules. I've gotten Negged when I know I deserved it, and I don't report those. Doing that would slow things down for legit complaints, and sour the Devs on the whole appeals thing.

This ^^^
ONe day i was going to report a neg, then i read the post and thought..."Well, ya i kinda had that one coming".

I lol, got over it, and didnt bother.

[Missing_Minds]

What I wanna know is who neg reps the monitors??

electrons.

[Doganpc]

I still think the subject of this thread should have been, "Who Neg's the Neg Reper's?"

Dogan
I care only enough to flaunt my disabled rep.

[Claransa]

A better question would be "Who actually cares about forum rep?"

Seriously.

Do you look at someone's rep level and assume they will be providing you with useful information? I never even notice nor care.

^this

I'm sure most people don't even know about forum rep, i'm still not sure about it myself and yeah couldn't give a kobold's behind about it. I have learned to recognize certain names though, a much better determining factor in whether its worth bothering to read the post. I still say 80% of the stuff on the forums isn't even worth reading anyway, the remaining 20% is mostly old stuff that amazingly still has a lot of value. Well done all you founder's out there, you've taught me a lot even if I had to think for myself sometimes to fit it into the game today.

[TheDjinnFor]

I still think the subject of this thread should have been, "Who Neg's the Neg Reper's?"

Usually the person who recieved the neg rep. As evidenced by the fact that I always get neg rep for telling someone who can neg rep me back that I neg repped them, and never get neg rep for telling someone who can't neg rep me back that I neg repped them.

With a few exceptions that I can recall, but then I had it coming

[Rumbaar]

Ok so if you receive negative reputation you can appeal and get it over turned. Fair enough.

This in print is possible, but in practice less than accurate.

The forum is an external mini game which the rep system is meant to distract forum members from the true issues like bad moderation, lack of information and other issues at Turbine.

They'll keep the system for as long as it is a viable distraction to any need for better community relations.

[Emizand]

Thanks all for your comments.

May I ask one further question please. Does my post on this thread deserve the neg rep I have received for it?

[rest]

We used to be able to...

I know

[rest]

Thanks all for your comments.

May I ask one further question please. Does my post on this thread deserve the neg rep I have received for it?

Not if you were just asking a sincere question to better understand the rep system. Unfortunately everyone's definition of 'trolling' is different so people will neg rep for all sorts of ridiculous reasons. As stated previously, if you receive neg rep on a post and you feel it was unwarranted, report the post using the button and put in the comments you feel you were given an unfair neg rep. The mods will then check the post in question and remove the neg rep if it was unwarranted.