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Nonsense like that just wouldn't have happened in the old days. ;)

The more I think about it the more I say abolish neg rep completely. A peaceful protest is called for...

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LOL. But yeah, it's a crummy film, it promotes conformity, discourages individuality, forwards the idea that everything teenagers do should be blamed on their parents instead of them taking personal responsibility for their own actions, and it has Judd Nelson. End of story. :D

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I can see your point about it promoting conformity, but the blaming parents thing sounds like you didn't follow to the end. They start out with that, but then break free of their confining parentally screwy notions and start making decisions on their own (sybolized by Claire giving away her earring to Bender and his accepting it).

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What i meant is that they don't take any responsibility for what they did to get into detention. It was always their parents' fault that they did what they did, and I think thats a cop out.

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Heh, name one child that lives with their parents that has not done something because of what they learned or experienced because of their parents. Children and young teens naturally want their parents to respect them and love them, it's human nature. I think it is a cop out for a parent to not take pride and responsibility for their children.

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If you guys want me to break those posts off into a The Breakfast Club thread, just say the word. :)

Anyway, regarding the rep situation: one MoFo sent me a message pointing out that it wouldn't be entirely fair to remove anonymity from a system that's been used with the assurance that it's anonymous. In other words, if anonymity is removed, it shouldn't be retroactive. That much, I think, we should all be able to agree on.

That said, I rather like Tacitus' idea of having only positive rep. I think negative rep is indispensable for larger sites (Digg is a great example of this...too much traffic means lots of junk, which requires a method of obscuring it, as they do). For a more moderately sized site, though, I think it's more negotiable.

If no one has any serious objections, I'd like to make a few modifications and remove the negative rep sometime in the next week or so.

Assuming everybody's on board for this, what do you all think should be done with past rep? Should we wipe it clean and start over? Or simply ignore negative rep in the past? Naturally, in all scenarios all data will be saved, just in case any sort of rollback is necessary (or helpful) down the line.

Let me know what you think, MoFos.

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I'm sure that a lot of people wouldn't want to lose the rep they've built up, I'd vote in that case to just ignore the negative.

I wouldn't have been for retroactively removing anonymity either, by the way. That can of worms can stay shut... :)

Re: The next nutless little phlegm-ball to negative rep me...
 

aaaaaaaaaahahahahahahhaha! Clearly, one of the four people who dinged me for starting this thead fears my wrath! bwahahaha! ::cough::

Anyway.

I could do without neg rep all together. I think just removing it from the picture would be cool.

Re: The next nutless little phlegm-ball to negative rep me...
 

Damnit! And I was just starting to move up the all time neg rep charts...*vexed*;)

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Thanks for -ve rep, guessing it was Jrs.

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^^Lol...the cheeky bugger...;)

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I quite like negative rep...

It can be a good way for people to vent their negative feelings about something someone has said without sending them a comment or posting a message saying 'you're an idiot', avoiding bad feeling and threads descending into arguments. I don't think it is only used when people disagree with something someone has said, often if you've been neg repped it is the way you have said it that has got you the neg rep. (Not so much 'I don't like the Breakfast Club' as 'The Breakfast Club is a pile of stinking crap and so is everyone who watches it.')

Of course, it doesn't always work like that. And some people ^^ seem to be collecting negatve reputation (all publicity is good publicity, right, adi?)

Re: The next nutless little phlegm-ball to negative rep me...
 

Hellz yeah!*smug*

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You're definitely making a name for yourself in the Neg Rep world, but I rule it in the last month. heh There are more nutless phlegm balls here than I even suspected!

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Puh-lease, it's just a fad. Besides, you have 3 more pos reps so I'm still the ******* of the month...*smug*

the darkness with the light...
 

Far be it from me to defend a system that has seen me earn more negative rep points (187) than infamous lightning rod Django and closing in closer and closer to Purandara88, but it never ceases to amuse me how upset (even in a mock board-like level of upset) members get when they receive "negative" rep.

There's always a contingent that are puzzled as to how they "earned" negative points for this post or that post that to them seems innocuous or just their opinion, but those same complainers never voice concern or bemusement when they get "positive" rep for posts that are equally innocuous or just their opinion. If anybody on this board had ever started a thread or complained like this, I'd be pleased as punch...


Since most everybody treats the positive rep they get for posts that certainly don't "deserve" them as no big deal, it must be because they don't see positive rep as being held in reserve exclusively for anything particularly special. If it was a well-written, insightful post, sure you might get some rep and even should expect it, but just as likely you'll get plus points for adding a laughing face in response to somebody else's joke or because you said your favorite color is blue or whatever. That so many of these same people who don't give a flying fart if positive rep is thrown around like beads at Mardi Gras get downright nonplussed if they get negative rep for anything short of being mean or indefensible is silly. Negative rep can be used just as ridiculously and lightly as positive rep. At least, that's how I use it. I don't only give positive rep to members who write four paragraph in-depth reviews, and I don't only give negative rep to trolls spouting racist garbage.


To me doing away with the negative rep is pointless. If the decision is ultimately to get rid of the negative rep system, I move that we get rid of the rep system completely. Speaking (or typing) as the person with the most positive rep by far (1117), I'd rather have the entire system dismantled than it just become a virtual stroking device and nothing more. If the pre-school teacher gives gold stars to everyone who slops their painted hand to construction paper, then gold stars have no value. Either allow users to mix it up, for big or little things, positive or negative, or just get rid of it entirely.


I think. :indifferent:

Re: The next nutless little phlegm-ball to negative rep me...
 

In other words: It evens itself out: all good by me.

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Anyway....it is not like the system is new or confusing: leave it alone I say.

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That "it evens out" isn't my point at all. My point is that one's receiving positive rep points does not necessarily mean that your post was insightful or interesting or especially worthy. By the same token, receiving negative rep points does not necessarily mean that one's post was horrible, ugly or especially reactionary. Either have fun with the idea of the rep system and take everything, plus and minus, with a huge grain of virtual websalt or get rid of the entire system. I says.


Yoda, if you do decide to eliminate negative rep alone, is there a way you can take me off the rep grid completely? Make it impossible for me to give or receive rep points and remove my total? Once it becomes self-congratulatory pats on the backs and absolutely nothing more, I don't even want to know what my total is or be alerted when somebody is engaging in it.

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Either way: leave it alone I say?