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.

[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!'

[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.

[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.

[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.

[rest]

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

[dkyle]

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

We used to be able to...

[rest]

We used to be able to...

I know

[Hambo]

We used to be able to...

...until it was abused, then all the mods turned off their rep display and bowed out of the system.

[Missing_Minds]

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

electrons.

[phillymiket]

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

electrons.

+1

You don't hear many cathode ray tube jokes anymore.
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[Hambo]

+1

You don't hear many cathode ray tube jokes anymore.
.

In a vacuum (tube) no one can hear you laugh!

[irivan]

I will say it again....

The reputation system is a high school popularity contest, those that like you will give you rep as long as you are a part of the consensus, those that don't, will neg rep you, even for simply disagreeing with them.

Don't fail to be ultra polite or they will neg rep you.

For my part, i am, as i have since the very day they started the high school popularity contest, am boycotting the system, it is useless and does nothing to encourage the free flow of ideas, and was invented by a lazy group of mods that didn't want to police their own population any more, with out realizing before hand what it would come to, and now that it has, are to lazy to dismantle it.

Every time i read one of these posts i laugh, and then come make my obligatory response to it all.

BOYCOTT the REP SYSTEM!!!

[Skavenaps]

i actually like to be neg rep. yeah, really.

Peeps things that is youtube or facebook, aka like it / dont like it.

if that makes they feel better bulling peeps go ahead. neg rep me. i will not care less.

[Lleren]

I think if posters where aware of which posts had already recieved positive or negative rep they would be likely to give more of both types.

I have been around online gaming a long time, and in my experience once someone starts throwing around the slang noob or elitist, they are often just using them to mean other "filtered" words. Just really tired of that false divide, much like other false divides like hardcore/casual, zerger/flowersniffer.

I don't think rep either way is a big deal, its less communication then a harsh or happy expression on someones face as they glance at you on a crowded street. Some of the green I don't know why I have. All the red I have deserved, at least in the last year or so. Give it out, neg rep that person that farted in the elevator, thumbs up the one who points out the absurd, or gives good answers to questions.

Edit: Skave, disabling rep just disables the display of it, and the notification you get when you recieve rep of either color.
Someone who gives you rep either way, can still how many green or red boxes you have.

[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.

[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.