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Hagar

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I have been a member of a number of forum over the years and I have found that many offer 'rep' points which can be awarded for good advice by other members.
This means that trolling and spam posting will get little reward whereas knowledge and help are recognised. It is not possible to know if a person with xxxx posts can be treated as expert, equally someone with xx posts could have a wide knowledge and ability.
I think that this should be adopted particularly in this forum.

andy
 
The only problem I see, is that the a certain segment of the forum (yes, I mean the fanboys) will give negative rep to anything that is positive about the company they do not support. Also if you make it positive rep only, how do you mark down a post that is incorrect or gives bad advice?
 
One way to do it would be like some of the tech help sites whereby the thread starter/question asker has a certain number of points they can share out and award to the people who they feel answered their question best.

So that way people can't gain or lose rep for just posting any old thing that people may or may not agree with but they can get rewarded for genuinely helping people.
 
I think it's a sensible idea. In 10 years of forum posting I've never seen anything like graphic card fanboyism - it's bizarre, and anything that helps reduce it would be good.
chaosophy said:
One way to do it would be like some of the tech help sites whereby the thread starter/question asker has a certain number of points they can share out and award to the people who they feel answered their question best.
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Fair idea. And you could have a system with + rep, but no - rep. One problem is that the mentality of some fanboys is such that they'd just throw reputation points to all those that share their views - eg, I post a thread saying which is better 570 or 6970, then give out points to all that agree with me.

I don't know if there is a solution, it's not that easy to ignore them when they continously derail threads.
 
TBH I wouldn't base any decision I take in purchasing hardware on what is posted in this forum. There are specialist sites and forums with a much higher level of expertise that I would trust more.

For general problems , issues or announcements this isn't a bad place to refer to.

But on the flip side IMO for wild speculation & fanboyism you came to the right place.

The 'leaving rep' issue will only cause 'eliteism' and good advice could be dismissed out of hand.
 
I'd get negative in that case haha.

I have to admit, I tend to look at higher reputations on an IBM coding forum I use, but then this is a very specialised subject in the field I work in.
 
All reputation systems are only as good as the people using them. :-)

I prefer to judge people by what they say rather than what other people think of them. It's not hard to filter out fools... my brain does it automatically.

Andrew McP
 
It works very well on another forum I visit, although there is a special kind of obnoxiousness I only ever see here so I'm not sure how it'd pan out.
 
Perhaps mods could apply Rep where appropriate. Add a star for providing useful information, advice or content, remove a star for be a numpty.
 
It's open to abuse; I've seen quite a few fora which have had rep enabled and the feature either gets ignored or you quickly get cliques which dish out rep to each other and ignore everyone else.

Plus, I don't want to see load of 'lol m8 +1 rep 4u!!!1one1!1' posts. :p

I find it easier to base my views on people on what they post, rather then their post count or some other easily manipulated score.

Edit: 200th post. Woohoo! ;)
 
Mean Mr Mustard said:
It's open to abuse; I've seen quite a few fora which have had rep enabled and the feature either gets ignored or you quickly get cliques which dish out rep to each other and ignore everyone else.

Plus, I don't want to see load of 'lol m8 +1 rep 4u!!!1one1!1' posts. :p

I find it easier to base my views on people on what they post, rather then their post count or some other easily manipulated score.
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I agree.. One of the attractions of OcUk forums is it's simplicity, which isn't to everyones liking but then you can't keep everyone happy.
 
Just remember you have an 'ignore' function. ;)

Just looked at mine and it only has people on it who are prominent in the Graphics Card forum in it, says a lot :p:D
 
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