Quote: (03-06-2012 02:27 PM)Vice Wrote:
Plenty of chick logic on display in this thread. It's not about fairness. It's not about whether a couple of members were "under-repped". It's about the net benefit for the whole forum at large. The rep point system, overall, was a success. Sure there were negatives but I could say the same thing about post counts, avatars, unique usernames, signatures, and even the country flag 'feature' that was just added.
Instead of improving the system, this arbitrary ideology of "fairness" was put into effect instead.
Althone gave plenty of suggestions earlier - allow only post-specific rep points instead of the general ones that were becoming common and cap the rep points that can be received per thread or post.
It's not just that the rep point system was a problem. Let's get to the heart of the matter: the rep point system was not efficient enough.
There are thousands of posts on here, we need an easier way to find the valuable knowledge. Otherwise there are going to be infinite number repeat threads or low value threads getting the spot light.. the forum could turn into a tower of babel.
I vote "yea" for a "yea/nea" post rating system.