Slushie September 17, 2012 Share September 17, 2012 Evidently we have a new "karma" style system of "thanks" where one can give a poster a positive point for their post, and a poster's total of such points is displayed with their name. I don't like this kind of system in other communities and I don't like it here. For one thing they're fairly easy to abuse. I've seen users on other forums with as many as 15 alt accounts they use just to upvote themselves and give themselves an inflated score. Even when the system is legit, it gives certain users a higher appearance of authority based on a score, which I think is unhealthy. People see a post by a user with a high score and assume the post must be true/valuable. They might even upvote them because they have a high score. It's simple psychology. The large chunk of our community made up by younger members is particularly impressionable in this way. The value of posts should be determined solely by one's individual judgement of their merit, unbiased by the "score" of the person who posted it. I would feel more comfortable with, if anything, a system that allowed "thanking" posts but did not track a user's total "thanks". Discuss. Astral project on my face, brother! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knapp September 17, 2012 Share September 17, 2012 I don't like it either, for above reasons. Also it looks ugly. Name: Philip Age: (7 June, 2012) Form: Male teenage human, light brown hair, green eyes, jeans & hoodie Name: Amalia Age: (15 Dec, 2012) Form: Female teenage fairy, black hair, blue eyes, white dress Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natasha September 17, 2012 Share September 17, 2012 Thank you both for making these excellent posts De bedste og smukkeste ting i verden kan hverken ses eller røres, de må opleves med hjertet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FigN01 September 17, 2012 Share September 17, 2012 Thanks for noting the quality of those posts, Natasha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phi September 17, 2012 Share September 17, 2012 I think they were thinking of when they did this. However, it won't work like they think it will because of the reasons stated above. Additionally, more popular users are more likely to receive likes if their posts are funny or sarcastic rather than helpful, which may lead new users to believe that anything that the popular users post are helpful, whether they are or aren't. Ambience's troll spree is a fine example of this. His advice was obviously inane, but because he had the entire IRC backing him up people started believing him. It's . I would recommend what was stated above, and make each individual post have a 'thank' count. Or just take it away altogether. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pleeb September 17, 2012 Share September 17, 2012 The Thanks system is more or less a live trial; testing to see how it goes for the moment. If people start abusing it the way the concerns are, or if it comes crashing down, we can remedy that by removing the system. I could also note, that if people begin using alts to 'upthank' their posts, that's technically against the rules (multiple accounts) and said users could be punished for doing so. For the moment, the user who's received the most "Thanks" is a user who does make constructive posts worth being thanked for, but this assumes that people are thanking users for their helpful posts and not for witty or sarcastic commented posts (in which case, as I said, the system can be removed if/when this happens). But yeah, if it comes crashing down, I'll remove it in a week; in the meantime, I can also look for a "Thank You" system that doesn't show the number of thanks. Spoiler An image in a signature behind a hidden tag! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sands September 17, 2012 Share September 17, 2012 This clutters everything, ugh. So does the forum stats thing as well, is there a way to minimize that? Am I blind? It kind of gets in the way... Edit: oh god what The THE SUBCONCIOUS ochinchin occultists frt.sys (except Roswell because he doesn't want to be a part of it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest September 17, 2012 Share September 17, 2012 Unnecessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bila bila September 17, 2012 Share September 17, 2012 WHAT ARE ALL THESE RED FLOWERS ON MY SCREEN??!?!??! IT WAS HARD ENOUGH TRYING TO READ HALF OF THE CRAP AND NOW THIS?! meh whatever... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chupi September 17, 2012 Share September 17, 2012 Here, bila, have a red flower. Lyra: human female, ~17 Evan: boy, ~14, was an Eevee Anera: anime-style girl, ~12; Lyra made her My blog :: Time expectations are bad (forcing time targets are good though) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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