I think and hope
Randy will can this whole rating thing VERY soon, due to this kind of nonsense already going on:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=310705
Posted by Premex: (bolding is mine)
Yeech. First it was post count whoring. Then Junior Member, Member, Evangelist sprints. Now we gotta deal with reputation stuffing to boot? Saints preserve us! Just what we need. Another "ego" account to run up (or down, as the case may be) with "reputation points."
At least on eBay, only the registered and successful buyer and seller can leave feedback. Here, I can line up all my family and friends to pad my account as much as I want.
And likewise any nutcase with a keyboard can stalk someone with negative reputation points (as has already apparently happened to one FlyerTalker). So it's meaningless, isn't it? There's no accountability.
And some folks are already leaving negative reputation simply because the disagree with a post and perhaps just hold a different opinion. That shouldn't effect someone's otherwise good reputation!!!
Can't wait to watch my reputation points plummet as a result of this post, even though it should have no effect upon my true reputation.
A creep in a couple of hours could give someone 100 negatives etc, and a red blob or however that will show up as. There is NO note or record of who left the negatives either ... even to Randy or team it seems. A very well known and respected FT'er emailed me today to say 2 FT'ers from a Forum they all frequent had stalked his account and left him a ton of negatives.
FT does not need this sort of thing.
One well known FT'er has already lobbied me to add positives to his account as some of the 'adults' here are already wagering on their totals it seems:
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I agree its gonna be a mess .... still, since I have a wager going with another FTers, I would appreciate it if you could vote for me........... ;-)
Thanks !!!!!!!!
Disclaimer - I have only logged into the new FT for about a day and see I have a green blob, but am now turning off that functionality on my profile, as I can see it will in the MAIN, only be divisive and negative .... something
Randy usually goes to great lengths to avoid on Flyertalk.
There are plenty enough new bells and whistles slowing down FT right now to almost being unusable most times I've tried - so leaving that feature turned OFF may even improve speed and functionality for ALL of us.
