[Suggestion] Reputation

[Aijelsop]

Idk, maybe a reputation bar where you press the Plus to add reputation, and Minus to remove. This could help on user reliability. I would find it nice, like in guides.
"Maybe this person is trying to brick my Wii... An evil guide that looks mysteriously non-evil looking. Oh wait, he has 500rep, this guide is definitely reliable

"

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Rep is mainly for warez forums where people want to see if the person is considered reliable in their uploads. If you "rep" someone to a very high rep, odds are you'll go for their links more than someone with lesser rep. On a forum that doesn't do much in the ways of file sharing, it's useless.

So no, it's not needed.

 

[8BitWalugi]

Ugh. Adding a reputation feature would just be people boasting about their 2nd e-penis.

 

[redact]

On a forum that doesn't do much in the ways of file sharing

don't lie to us, we know the only reason people become staff is to get access to the warez sub-forum

 

[Rydian]

I've seen a couple forums where a reputation system DOES work... when it's by post, NOT by user. What really struck me is that one of those forums is a runescape fan forum... which you'd normally expect to be full of misuse of the system everywhere, but instead people use it as intended, and it actually helps to cut back on flame wars because a person can get satisfaction by downvoting somebody's post to give them -1 instead of potentially posting something flaming in response to show they don't like it.

It's entirely possible to see a user post a really helpful suggestion and that post is +10, whereas another post of theirs is total dumbassery and is -3... I'm pretty sure limiting the number of votes you can cast on posts per 24 hours helps, and it keeps most posts at 0/neutral rating since people don't want to waste their daily votes, but of course some of the most helpful posts are like +80, and one of the really stupid ones get down to like -30 if it's pretty much universally-bad.

I don't agree with per-user reputation, but rather per-post seems plausible to me. I hear tales (and it makes sense) that'd it'd be abused, but I've seen forums that tried it, and if a huge community of runescape players can use it properly I'm sure this forum could as well.

 

[Zorua]

No, definitely no. This isn't PSN or Xbox Live. This is GBAtemp and it will stay this way.

 

[Skyline969]

On a forum that doesn't do much in the ways of file sharing

don't lie to us, we know the only reason people become staff is to get access to the warez sub-forum

You weren't supposed to mention that... now Costello will be sending highly skilled assassins your way sometime in the near future.

 

[Toni Plutonij]

This gets suggested about once every four months, and is shot down every time.
We want GBAtemp to be a community, not a popularity contest and e-peen gallery.

Crap.....I must be in a wrong place for years then..

I always thought temp is a popularity contest and e-peen gallery.....and that I'm doing quite well

Thanks for shattering my dreams

 

[nryn99]

I'd go with Rydian's suggestion. but i'd like to add that a user can only vote once per specific post.

 

[ProtoKun7]

I think that's what the WARN bar is for..

More Warn % means... unreliable
(don't quote me on that, that's just a guess)

Unless you're staff, you can only see your own warn bar. (Ironically, staff members have no warn bar to see.)

And everyone knows the higher warn you have means the better you are.

 

[monkat]

And everyone knows the higher warn you have means the better you are.

Then whoever keeps suspending me without letting me know why must adore me

 

[Sausage Head]

The EoF will fuck it up. Seriously.

 

[Lily]

No rep. Not per user, not per post. It's not necessary. We already have a section for the total crap people like to post, it's called the edge of the forum. Learn to use your own common sense when determining a post/guides worth. You don't need other people to constantly tell you what's good and what's bad.

 

[MeritsAlone]

No...
Just, just no.
If that should happen it would be something like youtube (if we get any trolls... do we even have any 0.0?)

 

[monkat]

(if we get any trolls... do we even have any 0.0?)

Nope!

Two words! Three! ...Five!

 

[Toni Plutonij]

No rep. Not per user, not per post. It's not necessary. We already have a section for the total crap people like to post, it's called the edge of the forum. Learn to use your own common sense when determining a post/guides worth. You don't need other people to constantly tell you what's good and what's bad.

And with this nice post, I come and close the thread

(because that's my thing, and that's what I do!)