Originally Posted by HigherFlyer

(Reputation comments) shouldn't be anonymous. Accountability should be automatic, just like posting to a thread.

Originally Posted by SEA_Tigger

When you reply to a thread, your username is recorded. When you reply via private message, again your username is recorded. Even if we as a Community decide that the Reputation function has no intrinsic value to our "standing" in the Community, I agree that, in principle at least, it would be nice if such comments were identifiable by poster.

But if I am understanding some of the comments correctly, the option does not exist in the application?

I will note that I personally don't feel I have to know who is posting comments and reputations. I have three covering two threads, and all are anonymous. One negative on the 777 (though the comment was positive), and one negative and one positive on the TED article in the Las Vegas Sun, neither with any comments attached. So even if I know who made what choice when it came to reputation, it does me no good since they didn't say why.

A few people posted threads in favor of my posts, and a few posted threads taking issue with parts of one of my posts. I can assume that the positive posts sent positive reputation and the negative sent negative, but since multiple people posted both positive and negative, I cannot do a one-for-one correlation. Nor do I feel I need to. Between reputation points/demerits and replies, I can determine roughly how my position is being received. And since the reputations have no comments, I place much more value and weight on the thread replies, since they note why they agreed or disagreed with my position(s).

Now, I admit that, to my knowledge, I don't have any "grudges" being held against me, so I have to discern that the negatives were in response to what I said, not that it was me saying it. For some, the reverse may apply, and I can understand the desire for them to know who selected what, so they can ignore it if they feel it was done solely out of spite.

Originally Posted by HigherFlyer

If this feature is supposed to be just for the CC as Randy stated, then the comments should be restricted to actual transactions in the CC.

Originally Posted by SEA_Tigger

...I have pulled some boners now and then...

Originally Posted by JonNYC

If you look in your User Control Panel you can see the last 10 reputations given to you. There will be a little dot next to each reputation:
• A ? dot means the user approved of your post, and as a result your reputation has grown,
• A ? dot means the user disapproved of your post, and as a result your reputation has "taken a hit",
• A ? dot means the user giving you reputation has not yet met the minimum qualifications to do so, and you will have to read the associated comment to determine what they thought.

Originally Posted by venk

...I see no other redeeming value outside of the Coupon Connection as long as BOTH receiving and acquiring is limited to it and preferably based on a transaction. On the other hand, this increases the load on the server with threads like these and people checking/granting these points.

The main problem with the reputation points is it is quite meaningless to anyone who sees it.

If it is negative, you don't know if it is because someone writes a lot of posts with content but are controversial and there are people who disagree or because the poster is harmless while posting inconsequential stuff or if the poster is a jerk.

If it is positive, you don't know if it is because one has had a positive contribution, or one is simply an apologist posting platitudes collecting recommendations from other apologists or someone who has no content whatsoever but is nice/flattering to others or someone who is nasty to another poster that is disliked.

So the bottom line is that one has to decide for themselves based on posts, so what is the value of the reputation point other than one being one more usefless feature increasing the load on the server for any board outside of Coupon Connection. I hope both acquiring and displaying is limited to that board and that it is not anonymous.

This feature is better suited for juvenile talkboards where reputation and cliques are everything.

Originally Posted by gleff

Ok, I'm REALLY dense. I cannot find the comments that have been left about me. I can find the number of reputation points I have (Under Myflyertalk, Edit Options) but nowhere can I find actual comments.

Originally Posted by ScottC

Gleff, that is because you have it disabled. To view the last 5 comments AND your current "score" you need to have the reputation display option enabled.

Another option is to click on the little scales on one of your own posts.

Originally Posted by Punki

Thank you, Randy, for your solution. It is perfect. This way we can continue to get all the great compliments from objective folks without the bad guys being able to take hits on our reputation. Super Idea!! :cool: