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BYOAC Needs a Karma/Rep System
Brian74:
+1 PL1 does put out good poop! The guy is everywhere! He's like the Shadow! The Shadow Knows! ^-^
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PL1:
Le Chuck - Sorry. Forgot to mention that I stole half of your idea for the 2-part system. :notworthy:
I like the "follow" idea for browsing, but not so much for rep.
One way to somewhat do "follow" now is to keep a browser tab open with "user profile - view all posts". :dunno
The reason for the 5-star voting is to add a little nuance to the rep system by allowing a range of responses:
* - Strongly dislike/disagree
** - Somewhat dislike/disagree
*** - Neutral
**** - Somewhat like/agree
***** - Strongly like/agree
In 'carrot and stick' terms, the likes are an unlimited supply of carrots, and the review stars can be one carrot, one stick, or one neutral.
I prefer to keep things positive, but there are times where a dose of negative reinforcement can be useful.
Like the old saying goes, "Spare the stick, spoil the forum." :duckhunt
Scott
TopJimmyCooks:
The pinside system is very good. add a small amount of karma for any post or review/rating. Click tilt warnings for posts you object to -offensive, sexist, whatever. Then you set your own account to show or hide posts at whatever tilt warning level you want. you can still click through and see a tilted/hidden post if you wish.
ChadTower:
The Pinside system leads to half the userbase posting the same bump post every other thread.
"Wish I were closer"
"good luck with sale"
"Throw some LEDs in that bad boy and you're awesome!"
"bdbd, nice ass, Buck"
There is so much noise there that it's hard to find the signal half the time. Post count shouldn't contribute to overall status but that's what Pinside's karma function does. Yeah, you get a little extra if someone thumbs up your post, but barely anyone uses that. Wander around there and you'll find posts with jawdropping project images and videos without a single thumbs up. I find myself frequently wondering how I could possibly be the first person pressing the thumbs up button on some things there. Stuff like detailed playfield touchup tutorials months old and not a single post of example images with any thumbs up.
But man, every single FS thread, has 2 real posts and 10 post count bumps to build one's own karma.
Before anyone points out some sort of irony in me arguing against post counts meaning anything, that's my whole point. My post count means nothing other than that I type really damn fast.
TopJimmyCooks:
Those are true issues.
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