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Many of you have asked that we change our settings to require the signing of Reputation Comments. This poll is to determine if this is a feeling felt across the board by the majority of our members or if this is an isolated request.
The results of this poll will affect the current settings if our members vote to have ID֒s shown on the Reputation Comments then I will make that change. If our members vote to continue as is ֖ no changes will be made.
You have the ability to affect the current function of our community, so please take a minute to participate in this anonymous poll!
Members can vote one time one choice and their vote is not public. I would prefer that we not turn this into a nasty debate ֖ but healthy debate is welcome regarding the Pros and ConҒs of each choice.
Please feel free to pass the URL of this poll onto our other members!
To answer some questions before they are posted:
YES this change would be ֓retroactive Ԗ meaning ALL of the comments that are showing on your UserCP would be signedӔ if the setting were turned on. The moderators WILL NOT go back into your rep history to tell you who left what if this setting is turned on, it will only affect the reps you can currently see.
The ֓setting adds a field to the UserCP between the ԓDate and the ԓComment that says, ԓPosted By Ԗ the users name would appear there. Members would not have to type in their name.
If the poll out come is YES we will post an announcement on the forums advising members of the change and then the change will take place approximately one month later.
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I personally have never given a negative vote for anyone, nor would I unless I truly believed that what they said was truly offensive. If I did I would stand behind my statement and sign my name.
I know negative votes can give you a red box that says "your name should (morsedonna) be approached with caution" ??? And this is because someone did not agree with or understand what was said????
My vote is yes. If I am going to add to or take away from someones reputation, they at least should have the right to defend themself.
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great point, morse donna. You know what???? Maybe just having those statements removed would be an answer. (the statements on the red/green boxes). That way, you're allowed to post your comment (yes, I agree, if I had something to say to someone, I would sign it, good or bad... I've been known for a drive by good comment, but am changing that now) and the boxes might change in quantity or color, but the praise/criticism attached to the colored boxes wouldn't be there anymore. I still vote to have every comment signed. But, this might be a good compromise.. hmmm
Hi Julie,
I totaly agree. I have never been worried about being popular, but should be approached with caution? I thought did I threaten or harm someone ?? I really did not like that being attached to my name. I really debated leaving the forum over it, but there are so many wonderful people here that I just went on and did not let it bother me.
If we have to put a name on it, I think it should be something more along the lines of what it truly is. Some may disagree with me or something to that nature.
But I also think we should have the oppertunity to explain ourselves when someone has taken away from our reputation.
Morsedonna,I couldn't agree more! If there's a name, you can at least go back in a pm with that person and have a conversation, if you feel that you need to clarify something with that person. Or, you can decide not to. The way it's set up now, the person saying the nasty's has all the power.. They can leave you a nasty, or they can walk away. The nasty receiver has no optins, they have to receive the nasty. They can not opt to respond directly to that person if they don't know who that person is. And the nasty receiver has no way to clarify with that person. Especially if they are way off base. I understand that in the past some nasty pm's were happening, too. And I know that's a possibility. But, if someone says something that you disagree with, there is no way to let them know that you disagree. That's sort of counterproductive of even having the ability to disagree. In a pm, you could attempt to smooth things out and resolve any hurt feelings--to the nasty maker or the nasty receiver.
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I voted yes. The rep system should be to provide constructive feedback. If all someone wants to do is vent their disagreement without justifying it, what is the purpose of that? I have found some very snide (sp?) comments without ID. Even with ID, I would ignore those as immature comments which don't merit a response. However, I don't think that anyone should feel comfortable just putting a negative comment out there without some sort of justification. If you have an honest disagreement, then you should have enough integrity to ID yourself. If you don't possess that kind of integrity, then your negativity serves no common purpose.
I am sort of both sided on this one. For one I just want to find out who left a negative when they just press the say letter 20 times... pointless in my mind. I always like a reason even if we disagree but just giving a negative to give a negative I don't agree with! I wish these could be edited out! But I usually sign my name when I give a postive or a negative! I am sure at some points I have forgotten my name...LOL
God Bless,
Summer
I really don't get the point of a 'Rep System' and haven't paid any attention to it. However, today I noticed I have a negative one and based on the comment left it is because someone didn't understand something I said in a thread. Since I don't know who it is I have no way of explaining it to them. So I will vote 'Yes', but ideally I'd like to see it go away entirely.
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huganangel
I voted yes. The rep system should be to provide constructive feedback. If all someone wants to do is vent their disagreement without justifying it, what is the purpose of that? I have found some very snide (sp?) comments without ID. Even with ID, I would ignore those as immature comments which don't merit a response. However, I don't think that anyone should feel comfortable just putting a negative comment out there without some sort of justification. If you have an honest disagreement, then you should have enough integrity to ID yourself. If you don't possess that kind of integrity, then your negativity serves no common purpose.
I voted yes, because the 2 or 3 or the negs I recieved had the same tone/wording as if they were from the same person...AND the were NASTY and MEAN....and I was accused of being an unfit parent because I had posted about problems I was having on some bad days or I was warning that there could be bad days. I wanted to know WHO told me that I should never have been allowed to be a mother, so that I could get some clarification as WHY and defend my position.....instead, I was run out of a clique-type thread for my warning/comments. If I have left a neg (I dunno) I have signed my name and kept the tone nice!
I'm sorry if this is a repeat question but this thread has alot of activity. ;)
Either way,...I am wondering if there is a "neutral" option that could be turned on for quick messages that are not to either add or subtract from rep. Sometimes I would love to send a quick one liner, like "whoah that was harsh" or "darling pic" (es) without it necessarily taking away/adding to from a peep's rep. Yeah ok,...that's what PMs are for but this would allow a quickie message so I can keep on trucking through a thread. Uh huh, laziness. *hehe*
I have been here long enough to have seen the system abused.
I have seen disagreements turn in to personal attacks and others recruited to affect someone else's reputation...fortunately it wasn't me.
No matter - tainted my whole opinion on this 'reputation' tally.
I think that a rating of the actual THREAD or POST (meaning the idea) and not the poster would be more righteous. By that I mean a scale that displays the overall opinion of whatever has been stated. If the poster was them-self a problem, the mods could issue warnings or suspend/ban them, either publicly or privately.
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Thank you everyone for voting and voicing your opinions on this matter!
We will be making a lot of changes to the forums in the coming months but rest assured, if the Rep comment label were turned on, you would get many months of notice.
We֒re actually looking at some options that would expand the usefulness of the Rep system and while we֒re not prepared to make any announcements, rest assured that your voice (via this poll) will be considered when making decisions about how to configure those settings in the future.
Again, thank you everyone for voting :)
(33458, thread rating is already an option, and has been for a very long time :) )
I had not noticed the thread rating until you said it was there. That shows how often I'm here, which is not really enough to care one way or the other about my own reputation.
However, since you asked...;)
What I am getting at is instead of rating a person by their most recent posts as we do now by witty comments ("Glorious" or "Dud"), something more mature that would show itself directly ON the post -"so many of the Peanut Gallery agree or disagree", rather than the rating being tied directly to a person's reputation. It seems to me that there are more than a few members (past and present) that might have an unappreciated comment concerning a subject, but that does not necessarily make them less valuable given the variety of topics we discuss here.
Hey - want to gauge your members as a whole? Fine, whatever...but perhaps that should be a separate tally that others could only offer an opinion on once.
Do you see what I mean?