Important note to everyone about one of the website functions

[socratese]

there was added, in the recent past, a feature to give someone a star or negative flag. I have noticed a trend starting and would hate to see it continue or become problematic for some members discouraging them.

Some people may have been flagged/ bad marked for something controversial they said, but they contribute a lot very empathetic and valuable things overall. I don't think many people know about the star system yet so they don't go looking for the star button at the bottom of a post, but they do look for the report/negative mark button when they see something they consider bad.

To make sure people don't get stuck with bad marks when they are not generally a bad person or they want to redeem themselves (not going to name names, but I know a couple people have) remember to give stars and bad marks as needed.

*you can find a star and a warning symbol at the bottom of everyone's post in a thread. click on a the star at the bottom of a person's reply or post to give that person recognition points. If they get a lot of stars over time they will get more green bars under their name and receive a better title. Click on the warning symbol for the opposite effect if the person has said something that was harmful, hurtful, out of bad taste, or a spammer etc..*

[Guest]

I hadn't noticed the negative effects of the report a post button... but then on another thread I saw someone's rep say "so-and-so has a little shameless behavior in the past" or some such thing... hmmm... maybe Rebecca will see this and have a chance to tell us how that works... does someone automatically get "negative" rep points if their post is reported? or is that controllable by the mods response to a reported post??

[magoo]

Where do you see someone's rep?

[socratese]

hold your mouse pointer over the little green bar(s) under someone's name in their reply box. number of bars also indicate reputation

i am familiar with rep systems in other forums. everytime someone clicks the rep buttons on someones post it adds to their score.

you start with score of 0 with a green bar that says you are on a distinguished road.
you get 5 people to report you or whetever the threshold is set at your score goes to -5...
at -5 score the bar under your name turns pink and says something about shameless behaviour when you mouse over it.
it takes a set amount of people to hit the button before anything happens.

im guessing... at like maybe 20 people click your star you get a second green bar and a title.

its different for different forums. This score system is better than rewarding people for number of posts. so you're not rewarding un needed posts or spam

[Rebecca Petris]

OK... does anybody ever read the "READ ME" forum?

Please see:
http://www.dryeyezone.com/talk/showt...er-reputations

I understand your concerns... It is not going to be altogether smooth just "switching on" a feature like this in a forum that's been around this long with a lot of well established veterans. I'm open to suggestions. I can always "tweak" a reputation manually if it becomes a problem.

SAAG, where did you see "so-and-so has a little shameless behavior in the past" or anything like that? I know that vBulletin has its own built-in labels that it gives based on reputation level, and they were all really kind of obnoxious but I didn't override them because I didn't think they would show up here. We have a title system here that works on numbers of posts, not on reputation.

[magoo]

Rebecca, I saw this same rep. I hovered my mouse pointer over the green (or pink in this case) mark below names on posts and the rep shows up.

[Rebecca Petris]

Oh, it's a tooltip... I get it. Thanks so much for letting me know. I'll change that.

[Guest]

Oh, it's a tooltip... I get it. Thanks so much for letting me know. I'll change that.

Awesome!

[magoo]

Thanks Rebecca! That particular rep was kind of funny but not really what we want, I don't think.