Poll: Rep system...is it flawed?

Hey Wes, I'll give you rep if you give me some. :D:D:D
(playing the game?)

If its based off "thanks" why do I have 3 bars and Jerhart has 2, but hes got more thanks than me. Also alot of "thanks" are given when someone posts a picture and then people respond with awesome snake and they get a thanks for it, isn't something really worthy of rep points is it?

or am i misunderstanding the system?

I really never saw it as a big deal (hence me never really looking into it), There are members I respect just because I have seen how they respond to post. If I have a question I know their input will be useful. I assign my own rep points in my head lol.

The system is abused, as pointed out.

The points are somewhat skewed as in the number of thanks you have does not correlate with your rep points you have. More or less, they correlate to when you joined the site relative to when the 'thanks' app. was last modified.

It is what it is. Mods will side with mods on this one.

But the system is obviously flawed. If this is how the site illustrates who is 'helpful' in the community...and who is not, it gives somewhat an unfair-false perception within the community.

Take the time to adjust the thanks for some of the veterans who have devoted their time to help others on this site by awarding them their points for previous thanks in the past.

Maybe a member gains a rep bar every year or two of being on this site. But what if they don't post much vs. the n00bie Suzy-Q who has 400 thanks for saying "great picture"? Well...she is just so helpful I guess.

Nothing will probably be done...again. But I was just curious to see if I was the only one who thought the system was flawed.

And for any mod/s who voted 'small cow', does the poll satisfy your curiosity? Will you do something about it if the numbers become fairly unbalanced? Because you didn't have to vote to reply to the thread.

forgive my ignorance for i am a noob as you say i haven't been on this forum long hell i haven't even had a clutch of eggs yet but why does it matter i have spent countless hours surfing the net trying to educate myself about balls and whatever little i do know i will pass out freely to anyone who asks a question i know the answer to i do it not for the green bar but to help out others because this is what we are supposed to do i could care less about how many green bars or thanks for that matter i get i would rather help people avoid the mistakes i have made and people thanking others for saying wow beautiful snake is just there way of showing appreciation to the fact that people took the time to congratulate there time and effort they put into making there beautiful snakes why does it have to be about recognition other then just helping others that is what makes me feel good that maybe i helped sorry for the long post just don't understand why everyone is always so hard on noobs we deserve recognition for our input too who knows i guess because we haven't been here for years it makes our input different

Vic

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Originally Posted by VicShell

forgive my ignorance for i am a noob as you say i haven't been on this forum long hell i haven't even had a clutch of eggs yet but why does it matter i have spent countless hours surfing the net trying to educate myself about balls and whatever little i do know i will pass out freely to anyone who asks a question i know the answer to i do it not for the green bar but to help out others because this is what we are supposed to do i could care less about how many green bars or thanks for that matter i get i would rather help people avoid the mistakes i have made and people thanking others for saying wow beautiful snake is just there way of showing appreciation to the fact that people took the time to congratulate there time and effort they put into making there beautiful snakes why does it have to be about recognition other then just helping others that is what makes me feel good that maybe i helped sorry for the long post just don't understand why everyone is always so hard on noobs we deserve recognition for our input too who knows i guess because we haven't been here for years it makes our input different

Vic

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It's a false perception of who is helpful and who isn't.

so you are saying if a noob has more green bars then say a veteran there info is wrong or that people shouldn't take there advice because they don't know what they are talking about and just posting to post i personally don't know how i got the one green bar i have and it doesn't matter if people don't want to take my advice based on that then oh well i tried i just don't understand why it matters

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Originally Posted by VicShell

so you are saying if a noob has more green bars then say a veteran there info is wrong or that people shouldn't take there advice because they don't know what they are talking about and just posting to post i personally don't know how i got the one green bar i have and it doesn't matter if people don't want to take my advice based on that then oh well i tried i just don't understand why it matters

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No.

Read the thread. This isn't an attack on n00bs.

Periods.

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Originally Posted by Jerhart

The system is abused, as pointed out.

The points are somewhat skewed as in the number of thanks you have does not correlate with your rep points you have. More or less, they correlate to when you joined the site relative to when the 'thanks' app. was last modified.

It is what it is. Mods will side with mods on this one.

But the system is obviously flawed. If this is how the site illustrates who is 'helpful' in the community...and who is not, it gives somewhat an unfair-false perception within the community.

Take the time to adjust the thanks for some of the veterans who have devoted their time to help others on this site by awarding them their points for previous thanks in the past.

Maybe a member gains a rep bar every year or two of being on this site. But what if they don't post much vs. the n00bie Suzy-Q who has 400 thanks for saying "great picture"? Well...she is just so helpful I guess.

Nothing will probably be done...again. But I was just curious to see if I was the only one who thought the system was flawed.

And for any mod/s who voted 'small cow', does the poll satisfy your curiosity? Will you do something about it if the numbers become fairly unbalanced? Because you didn't have to vote to reply to the thread.

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I'll say this J all of our members feedback does get careful consideration, after a lengthy review from the staff we'll let you know what if any changes will be made.;)

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Originally Posted by VicShell

forgive my ignorance for i am a noob as you say i haven't been on this forum long hell i haven't even had a clutch of eggs yet but why does it matter i have spent countless hours surfing the net trying to educate myself about balls and whatever little i do know i will pass out freely to anyone who asks a question i know the answer to i do it not for the green bar but to help out others because this is what we are supposed to do i could care less about how many green bars or thanks for that matter i get i would rather help people avoid the mistakes i have made and people thanking others for saying wow beautiful snake is just there way of showing appreciation to the fact that people took the time to congratulate there time and effort they put into making there beautiful snakes why does it have to be about recognition other then just helping others that is what makes me feel good that maybe i helped sorry for the long post just don't understand why everyone is always so hard on noobs we deserve recognition for our input too who knows i guess because we haven't been here for years it makes our input different

Vic

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Have you considered using punctuation marks? As you write now any point you may be hoping to make is lost.

Okay well forgive me for not using proper punctuation. I didn't know that was so important. I just don't understand how a green bar indicates who is and who isn't helpful. You should know if your information is correct or not and just helping people with there questions should be gratitude enough but obviously it isn't. If you need people to say well his information is more helpful because he has more green bars then someone else then you are giving your help for the wrong reasons. And i did read the whole post and you are right you aren't attacking noobs. My deepest apologies. But why is that recognition so important it is just a mark under your name and it doesn't change the information you give people.