Well, we tried the rep system for about 3 months and I’m not convinced so I turned it off for now.
Discuss.
good idea, in my opinion. Too much abuse, good move
I’m glad it’s gone, in it’s present form. It would be good if rep wouldn’t change due to posts in JC, just in Rec.
Yeah that rep system was way abused. Good move Gilby.
(I wonder if I will get good rep for this post)
well, the rep system did get a little out of control. Some people’s reputation skyrocketed because people thought “I’ll give him/her rep because they have a bunch already.”, and some people’s rep stayed pretty much the same. I joined unicyclist.com when the rep was starting and thought that it was a good idea, showing who is a worthwhile contributor and who isn’t.
I think you should bring rep back, but without a limit
As someone new to this forum but who has participated in many other forums in the past, I thought the rep idea was interesting, but didn’t really care about it one way or another. I got some very nice comments from people, which I appreciated. I also got a couple of nice PMs that I appreciated, and without the rep system, that’s still an available option if you’d like to give someone a pat on the back. And whether someone had one green bar, five green bars, or a red bar, I wouldn’t be any more or less likely to read their posts.
I don’t think the rep system is a bad idea. I just think it’s one of those things that some people might like, but others – like me – just won’t care about one way or the other.
Rich
Does it? I was near the top. 
- I didn’t enjoy getting bad rep.
1.5 I thought it was too open to abuse. People could leave random negative comments annonymously and I never find it pleasant to be negatively evaluated, however much that I know it doesn’t mean anything. - I did enjoy being near the top.
- It should be obvious by my first 3 points that I got too invlovled.
- It didn’t help to ‘shape’ my posting. I got random bad and good rep. Sometime s I would get good rep for trivial things and not for stuff that I considere to be deep and meaningful (and very helpful). Ofcourse, it might not have been.
- I know already whos posts I don’t read so much. I don’t need rep for that.
- Overall I prefer it without.
Cathy
I think you should bring it back but have the poeple leaving feedback sign there name
Guys do you know that you can PM someone if you want to compliment them on a helpful post, or you can PM them if you didn’t like the post they gave.
PM’ing is better because then you know who gave you the PM if they try to give you hate PM’s, so it will limit the hate PM’s.
For now on if someone helped me I will PM them telling them that I am grateful for their help.
well even though i loved finally having my second rep box thingy. i think that in some cases it was severely overdone. maybe the idea of rep only in rec is good but for now i guess its up to you gilby…you pay the forum fee or whatever.
Yeah, I vote for rep only in RSU…
But I don’t think much of it being “abused”. It’s not like rep acctually matters, so if its abused so what. No harm done.
But it was fun while it lasted.
You could just turn it back on, and start everyone all over again at 10 again and see if it turns out better.
I’m the Rodney Dangerfield of rep-points.
If it eats bandwidth or disk space… I’d get rid of it.
I see no need for it.
my vote is to not have it.
if it were to be present, having the user name show up would make the comments more likely to be more relevant
I think it was a lot of fun for a while, but had no lasting value. Might be a good thing to bring back once in a while when posts are going in the wrong direction and you want to whip the forum into ship shape. The posters with the greatest lauds will make great posts no matter the system. I think it did motivate some of the “trouble makers” into trying to contribute more produtively for a while.
I am really supried that it didn’t turn into a who gets the most bad rep contest though! Maybe people are really good inside after all, eh? 
i think the rep system is a good idea, but people misused it way too much.
the reason behind that one thread i made, in fact. because people gave me rep i totally didn’t deserve. but no one believed me when i told people to stop repping me, then they were all like, you loser, you just want more rep!!
Was rep really a valuable feature of the boards? Mr. Childs was just as helpful without rep as he was with rep. Some people were just as obnoxious without rep as they were with. Rep was given out randomly in some cases and methodically in others, but for the “wrong” reasons. Some people’s rep accurately indicated the reliability of their posts, other’s were questionable. If anything, the trial proved the worth of the “rep lock-out” feature which prevented turbo-repping. I’m sure that, without this feature, some posters would have maxed (or minned) their rep scores in a short time.
I wouldn’t mind seeing a comparable post “lock-out” feature… Imagine how many fewer posts there’d be in the MR thread cough SPAM cough It’d force people to think out their posts before blasting them off, if they could only respond to a thread once every 10 minutes or so.
I think the question should be “Would rep ever become a valuable feature of the boards?” I stand by my earlier claim that the rep system would “work itself out” if given a long enough time to mature. Honestly, I think each rep vote should be ~1 point rather than 10, or that boxes should show up for every 500 or 1000 rep points rather than every 100. If the system were carried on for say, one year, with the above-mentioned changes, the “rep score” would better reflect a poster’s tendency to contribute positively to the forum. Random reps, etc. wouldn’t be such an issue after a year’s worth of posting.
In short, I think Gilby put the system on “turbo”… better results would be obtained if the system was toned down: fewer points, fewer green boxes, a slower ramp-up to the ability to give more points.
Nonetheless, rep is just a “moving average” of a given user’s tendencies. Everyone has good and bad days… I could build up all kinds of good rep and then, one day, post a huge load of BS on the boards and the noob of the day wouldn’t know any better, seeing all kinds of green boxes next to my name.
cool, now can we dump the post count like it once was?
I like it off.
Ohhh, ohhh… and who started the movement?
cough cough