Reputation

How is the Forum Reputation score calculated? My reputation is 0!!!

The reputation system works like this,

-1 for a negative vote
+1 for a positive vote
+3 for a thanks

CelestialTeapot wrote:How is the Forum Reputation score calculated? My reputation is 0!!!

No prob, man! I gave ya a +!

heikojr

The rep is a bit of a pain on this forum, posting a + takes you to a different page, you then have to cycle back again.

Maybe this is a blessing?

When you cast a vote, confirmation of the vote comes up and you now get a choice of going back to the topic or main forum. This seems OK.

The little +/- on the right of the post - I was thinking of making the default setting for everyone except me as -40 but that would been an abuse of power hehe.

An anonymous friend notified me yesterday that I had received "the very first negative rep on the new forum."

I am truly humbled by this honor, and will do my best to live up to the lofty standards of someone so decorated.

Dew wrote:The little +/- on the right of the post - I was thinking of making the default setting for everyone except me as -40 but that would been an abuse of power hehe.

Hi Dew,

Have you thought of how these star things get taken way out of context? Does this new forum want to see a repeat of the JF where some posters where seen as devils and some saints when neither was the case? It is a stone around a posters neck to have either a number of negatives or positive reps. Harmless fun can soon grow into something rather 'difficult'.
A post should and can speak for itself. Just a thought and thanks again for taking the initiative for opening this site. Such a shame the other was sold then left to decay as it is.

Another point to ponder Dew is if this site takes off and does replace the JF forum this may well see the closure of the JF forum. To that end can this forum cope with the traffic and pots that the JF did? I know minus zero about such things but its always better to think ahead and be prepared. The success of this forum could be the final nail in the coffin for the JF, can this forum then cope with the demand? One could be looking at the loss of both forums and their content.

How are things with you. Would be great to have an email from you with all your news.

Very best wishes,

Mike

Why has Reputation been changed to sort of Stars?

This site can be more than a cheap copy of a failed, sold out site

Hi Hanon,
I know what you mean - after all if you dont agree you can always write a message - I just saw it as a bit of a joke but yes perhaps its better without. Ill deactivate it for now then and if anyones bothered we can vote on it. Apparently the forum has unlimited bandwidth so....

Judo Dad wrote:Why has Reputation been changed to sort of Stars?

This site can be more than a cheap copy of a failed, sold out site

It was my attempt at humour - never mind

Dew wrote:I know what you mean - after all if you dont agree you can always write a message - I just saw it as a bit of a joke but yes perhaps its better without. Ill deactivate it for now then and if anyones bothered we can vote on it.

Dew, I posted here because I trust in your judgement. IF you try to please all members by having votes YOU will end up the bad or good guy.
This is your house and we all need to behave as guests while in it. With respect please use your judgement, its sound. If you want the stars keep em if you don't want to go that way, ditch em either way it should be your rules. I will respect either decision.

You have taken on board a lot of work and it is going to take a awful lot of your time not to mention test your patience. Start as you mean to go on. You will never please nor upset everyone. 50-50 is the best you may hope for.

Please don't sell it without first giving your guests the chance to debate things with you. Any forum can only be as successful as the collective membership make it.

Speak soon?

Mike

Hanon wrote:

Dew wrote:I know what you mean - after all if you dont agree you can always write a message - I just saw it as a bit of a joke but yes perhaps its better without. Ill deactivate it for now then and if anyones bothered we can vote on it.

Dew, I posted here because I trust in your judgement. IF you try to please all members by having votes YOU will end up the bad or good guy.
This is your house and we all need to behave as guests while in it. With respect please use your judgement, its sound. If you want the stars keep em if you don't want to go that way, ditch em either way it should be your rules. I will respect either decision.

You have taken on board a lot of work and it is going to take a awful lot of your time not to mention test your patience. Start as you mean to go on. You will never please nor upset everyone. 50-50 is the best you may hope for.

Please don't sell it without first giving your guests the chance to debate things with you. Any forum can only be as successful as the collective membership make it.

Speak soon?

Mike

Ha - they'll be no selling dont worry about that. Anyway I kind of agree about the stars - but I dont think theres any harm in having a vote now and again - but there are somethings I would not want to see here and I would put my foot down no matter what anyone thinks (ie inapropriate content, nasty insulting behavior etc etc) In the meantime we have some excellent admins - Jonesy , Genetic, pieman, Neil and carlo who will help maintain order. I havent the time to run this on my own - in fact much at all - Ive just started a PHD - but I will keep a background role and keep my root admin privileges this time

Dew wrote:Ill deactivate it for now

Aw, man! I just had a good rep!

heikojr

heikojr wrote:

Dew wrote:Ill deactivate it for now

Aw, man! I just had a good rep!

heikojr

Heikojr,

You are one of life's gentlemen. Your rep is never in question. Just post and be yourself.

Is your son still doing judo? My grandson gave up early this year.

Mike

Hanon wrote:Heikojr,

You are one of life's gentlemen. Your rep is never in question. Just post and be yourself.

Is your son still doing judo? My grandson gave up early this year.

Mike

It has been so long since we have met up! I do hope all is well!

My son is still doing judo. And, if you can believe it, my son and my kata partner's son do Ju-no-kata! Not only do they both practice kata, but they both compete in shiai. Hopefully, they will grow up and be well rounded judoka! Well on their way, now!

I will have to tell you about my other kids and their judo sometime... especially since my oldest daughter and her husband just had a son this past August!

It's too bad that your grandson gave it up, but there's nothing wrong with giving up judo... as long as the child does something productive. And video games don't count!

I look forward to talking with you as you're rep is very high!

heikojr

I have always found the +/- a useful tool on forums and especially the likes of this one which will be pretty much self policed, I do not think they should be cumulative in the form of a reputation because that could be very misleading, but on a post to post basis I think they perform an important role of letting a poster know what the group are thinking, it is easy for a poster to get carried away and not have any real feeling for the mood of the forum, I think that a gentle reminder of the general consensus can be useful, and on the other hand a very small gesture of appreciation for either someone's point of view or maybe even the amount of thought or work put into a post.

To me it's just another tool to help us in an online world of words where judgement can be difficult at the best of times.

ThePieman wrote:I have always found the +/- a useful tool on forums and especially the likes of this one which will be pretty much self policed, I do not think they should be cumulative in the form of a reputation because that could be very misleading, but on a post to post basis I think they perform an important role of letting a poster know what the group are thinking, it is easy for a poster to get carried away and not have any real feeling for the mood of the forum, I think that a gentle reminder of the general consensus can be useful, and on the other hand a very small gesture of appreciation for either someone's point of view or maybe even the amount of thought or work put into a post.

To me it's just another tool to help us in an online world of words where judgement can be difficult at the best of times.

Hi Pieman ,
there seems to be mixed opinions on this - could you set up a poll in the open forum and we'll have a vote to decide ,
cheers,
Gus

I can not find the +/- thing. It gone or I blind?

Andre_Mikalov wrote:I can not find the +/- thing. It gone or I blind?

It is between the avatar and the post you are rating.

If you access posts through the "View posts since last visit" link, the +/- does not appear. It only works if you go to the forum itself then click on the thread you want to view.

I don't know about that. I see the +/- even when I choose "view posts since last visit"

Mikalov, you might've just accidently checked the 'guest' post(s) in this forum above yours, or your own.lol. Neither of those will have them.

Not bad, tho. Took me near 100 posts.lol

JudoSensei wrote:I don't know about that. I see the +/- even when I choose "view posts since last visit"

It seems to have changed again, now I can see it even through that link. At the time of the last post the +/- didn't appear.

guys, the forum does funny things sometimes.