Kamisama

Otherwise, I suggest it not be part of the website.

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Voodoo

You're in the red? I'm surprised I'm not, but anyone who gave me red didn't have the ability to make it count, as they were new members (it's always the new member that don't like me.)

I don't have any cursing in it, though. That'd be fun.

It doesn't serve much of a purpose, and Yusef seems to be long lone gone.

Well.

Drezzal

Well, now you have some red . (Banned)

The rep counter should stay as it shows your reputation and how your behaviour has been.

Faustling

I doubt it works very well as none of recently banned, as far as I know, was in the red while Kamisama (who I don't know but can't possibly be worse then them) is.

Drezzal

They all seemed to be banned for a certain reason, there is a thread about it

Faustling

I know, but both Voodoo and especially Thoth have been behaving badly for long time (Voodoo just returned from a ban and Thoth basically declared war against everyone else in the debate forum) without any of them turning red.

lisajane

I think the rep counter is fine. If it's red, then it shows what people think of you. Perhaps those in red show change how they present themselves, because they won't be asking for the rep counter to be taken away if it turns green.

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Foxee

Kamisama, I normally forget all about the rep counter. I did wonder when I saw this thread title just what nefarious deeds you were planning.

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WriterDude

Um... what is the rep counter anyway? I noticed I have 10 points, but have no idea why. Is this a good or bad thing?

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Foxee

If you go to your Control Panel you'll see 'latest reputation recieved'. That's where you see if you're getting good rep input from other forum users or not. Sometimes they'll give a comment as well.

All it really means to me is that someone remembered the rep counter was there. Also, It won't let you give a lot of rep to one person...you have to spread it around.

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WriterDude

Thanks.

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Jocelyn

I do wish it would show us the last people we gave it to as well. Sometimes I'll click on it to give rep and it'll tell me to spread it around before I give it to this person again, but I won't remember having done it recently.

Kamisama

My idea was a simple request for administrators who control community-based websites like this to stop being nitwits. But through persuasion, I was hoping to pull this off. Oh, but the educated jackass inside of me sure does want to be a prick about it.

Ooh, bias! Yes, bias!

Bias is the topic of concern here.
Sure, you can be biased in your writing.
I'm not going to negatively rep you for that.
I don't actually partake of the rep system.

I've got tons of negative views about how the site is handled. I have tons of views about other web forums, too. But I think that's because I've been making websites since the mid-1990s. I've seen the evolution of these things from that perspective. And, no, I wasn't a 1980s hacker who'd go on telnet just to view discussion boards. I'm not that old, but I've seen the Internet change.

Last big comment I had was on wordreference.com, which helped them reform the big Spanish language board mess they had. It still looks messy, but at least it's slightly improved.

I've been part of a lot of web communities. And I think rep counters are best in empirical websites, websites that have some kind of science behind them.

This website has literature, language, philosophy, writing, and a lot of other linguistic things behind it. This is a forum where subjectivity takes place. Grammar and a wielding of logic help make it empirical, though.

Regardless, I was given a negative rep based on a comment of mine. I commented about a speech someone gave a while back. It was about some book with metaphysical laws, such as the law of attraction. I'm for ontology and the such, but I don't think I should be given negative reputation for my views.

To tell you the truth, I probably wouldn't care about the negative reputation if it weren't for the psychological factor of appearance. And as writers, I'm sure most of you understand the concept of appearance. You understand how displaying images through words can have a profound impact upon someone's insight and psychology. You can make a person change his or her mind. You can make a person act and react differently.

Well, basically said, negative rep makes others think that person is an axiologically "bad" person. And what a person views as bad is dependent upon him or her. Still, there is a warrant for this view of bad, because we are on a community website that consists of writers, as the website is called writingforums.com.

Now, I'm not the best writer. I'm not awesome. But I know how to somewhat proofread, check for logic, and see if a message is getting across.

So, if I have negative rep, what kind of member does that represent me as to others on the website?

Does that mean I lack writing experience?
Does it mean my novel wasn't good?
Does it mean I can only offer bad advice and should be avoided?

In this case, I was given negative points for an opinion, which is purely subjective.

It wasn't negative for something such as grammar or coherence.

I hope some of you can see a reason for taking away the reputation counter. If you want to make someone look negative, then comment about or on his or her writing. If you want to make someone look positive, then comment about or on his or her writing.

I don't feel like carrying on this post too much, so I'll just look for replies.

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Gabriel Gray

You should add who has repped you, mainly because i got -repped for the person thinking my comment wasn't relevant enough, when it clearly was. If the persons name was attached, i could comment back to him/her on why it was relevant and perhaps be petty and -rep them in future for a irrelevant comment

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