It has gone

Howdy,

Hmm...I kinda liked it.

Essentially - the post count has been used in the past as some sort of an indicator as to a person's participation in the community and to a sense - their standing.

This system allowed more flexibility and allowed one to notice those individuals whose peers thought well of them.

Why was it disabled? Is it coming back? Anyone know?

Just curious - I can live without it - but I thought it was kinda neat.

Keep the faith,

Pakse

Belatedly I am finding out that we went from a period when one could see summaries to a period where one could see details to a period where one can see nothing.

Could these changes be better communicated to the users of this board

Could the admin email me my reputation details?

If you go into the "Only Randy Petersen" forum and check out a few threads... you will see what led Randy to cutting off this feature.

William

There seem to be 52,981 threads there on this topic, and it would take one well over two weeks to just read what is written there on this topic

If Randy wants to cut off this feature, I am fine with it. What I am asking for is more communication from the admin when features are allowed/disallowed. There used to a notification mechanism on the board itself (which still may be there) which allowed users to be notified of events. It seems to me that if reputation was being disallowed there should have been some notification like: "This feature will be cut off in XX days. You have YY days to view your reputation comments".

Agree with wharvey.

Ditto.

Well, what is, is.

My observations (I used to do some assistant Sysoping on GEnie and CompuServe, in the days they were valuable ...

Initially, folks were taking the opportunity to drop some bird droppings on folks anonymously. It looked like "reputation wars" out there...

All of a sudden, tah-dah! reputation marks became transparent as to author. But from looking at them, it would appear some were giving positive comments, with negative reputation, or vice versa less frequently - so perhaps people weren't paying attention, even.

Now, it's gone...

The good: presumably, allowing reputation points was a subtle way to reward, or to modify negative posters' behavior. Limiting the number of reputation points you gave meant you had to be thoughtful, and not blast a bunch of folks, or inflate reputation of those you agreed with.

The bad: it brought another factor into the interpersonal relations here, such as they are, and I suspect gave lots more unnecessary c**p to the moderators to deal with when folks began writing about or protesting unwanted reps. Not to mention we all have ideas of what changes we want - more work for the volunteer moderators.

Ah, well, we know no good deed goes unpunished...

It may be a good thing this feature is gone - less hassle and work for moderators - who I know from experience are very busy already - and, besides, if we hang around the boards a while, we know who's who... hotheds vs. levelheads, flamers vs. defusers, etc. and if it matters enough, we can give feedback in public with our bald faces hanging out so we can't hide.

Only recommendation I can make it so communicate with the membership when big or significant changes are to occur (or don't, as in the case of the balky updates not long ago.) I recommend to my clients - corporations or government entities -that one way to partially mitigate perceived negative effects of change is to be sure to communicate - much more than when things are going right. Then people feel included, rather than being surprised.

Good job, folks! ^

Rats. Just when I was heading for another chiclet.