[PiG]

Originally Posted by Nemo

At the the contrary, I preferred things before. Up voting helpful posts was a way for me to give a little "gift" to people who are doing the invisible work. It's no longer available and I think it will have a bad effect on motivation for those on the long term.

Today I wanted to give Aequitas upvote for a replay analysis, I only could give this smirk face, it doesn't seem the same.

I vote for making like it was before : 3 levels of comments appreciation and rep point count. I don't care if some people get their points for pure "coolness", I care that those having some for work don't get them any more.

I was sad to lose this positive element too! But it was often used to back up aggressive posts which leads to a bad forum culture. In the last month we had many people responding to slightly aggressive posts with even more aggressive posts because they would feel like they were being ganged up on simply because their were 5-6 +reps on the instigating post. There might be some "thankyou for quality post" option but the problem is stopping people from using that on a post that starts a fight.

I had a long think about it and think for the moment this is the best option. If someone makes a really valuable post then you can still respond and perhaps ask another question or even simply say "omg thankyou so much for that post it was very helpful". People have been saying to me "but we don't want the forum clogged up with posts like this". Meh I say. The fact that it takes more effort to make an actual post means if u get responses like that it means alot more then a few rep comments anyway. It also encourages people to post more actively.

Some have said to me that the commenting and +- rep helps encourage lurkers to post more but ive noticed for the most part it just allows the regular posters to find an easier way to interact to writing well thought out posts. This leads to an overall decline in forum quality.

TL;DR: Sad to lose the rep system but think there will be more positives than negatives!

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	nirvAnA:	so smart!
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[Nemo]

Originally Posted by PiG

I was sad to lose this positive element too! But it was often used to back up aggressive posts which leads to a bad forum culture. In the last month we had many people responding to slightly aggressive posts with even more aggressive posts because they would feel like they were being ganged up on simply because their were 5-6 +reps on the instigating post. There might be some "thankyou for quality post" option but the problem is stopping people from using that on a post that starts a fight.

Generally, suppressing good things because some people might abuse it is not a good thing.
I think generally really bad posts were downrepped and then discouraged. Of course you had some abuse of people being downreped because they were not howling with the others, it was not that frequent.

had a long think about it and think for the moment this is the best option. If someone makes a really valuable post then you can still respond and perhaps ask another question or even simply say "omg thankyou so much for that post it was very helpful". People have been saying to me "but we don't want the forum clogged up with posts like this". Meh I say. The fact that it takes more effort to make an actual post means if u get responses like that it means alot more then a few rep comments anyway. It also encourages people to post more actively.

10 posts of "thank you" is not possible. We had posts with nearly 30 upvotes, generally those people really appreciated it. Giving just a comment instead has not the same positive effect.

Some have said to me that the commenting and +- rep helps encourage lurkers to post more but ive noticed for the most part it just allows the regular posters to find an easier way to interact to writing well thought out posts. This leads to an overall decline in forum quality.

I don't understand this one.

Edit : Look at this to understand what I mean : http://www.sc2sea.com/showpost.php?p...&postcount=522