User Rep Poll: Should it Stay or Should it Go?

[Talking Poker]

Wow. The results of this poll are pretty clear. Guess it was unnecessary.

[eejit101]

i like it, but not many people rep me for some reason, id like to think i add value posts here, perhaps your all racist cos im british

[FatRufus]

I like this idea, i also like the idea of seeing who leaves you your rep points but i understand all the controversy and fights it would start

[HEwong]

im asian andi got -1 lol we can switch places.

[HEwong]

oh a post on topic. i like the rep thing as long as people dont give out negative rep for the hell of giving negative rep or because they just plain old dont like someone, cuz that would be gay then

[Gordogg]

I don't use it much. Plus if people are fighting it's an easily abused system. If you are here long enough you learn who to listen too. Not that my vote matters in the landslide.

[Talking Poker]

True. But you giving feedback via the rep system will help NEW people know who to listen to and who not to... Giving rep has absolutely no benefit to the individual giving it. It's for the good of the community...

[rookette22]

What good is it if it's not aimed at what the TalkingPoker.com is about?

Robbie Robb made a good point;

Yes Robbie, this would work so much better, if the REP SYSTEM would be solely based on POKER which by the looks of it now ....it is not!

My suggestion?
Keep the rep system for the General Poker related threads only....this way people will know where to go if they need to ask a poker related question or need help with poker or anything else from this section.

As for how 'liked or disliked / cool or uncool' a person is ....make it something else ...something like a (Good and Bad) Karma System.

[HEwong]

wow some dirty bastard gave me neg rep for this post saying .. you mean like this???

[PShabi]

Wow. That's low.

[Talking Poker]

Like I said, it's not a perfect system. It does have a number of safeguards that prevent a single person from completely sabotaging everything though. I still believe that in the long run, it will work out just fine.

[Talking Poker]

The problem that I have with the Rep system is the vastly different amounts of power certain people have. Rep Altering Power is based on how long you have been here, your post count, and your Rep.

I don't have the exact numbers, and I don't feel like figuring it all out, but I can give something like 22 points of Rep for every click I make. 22 Points! Meanwhile, pshabi is able to give something like 10, but there are lots of quality posters who are only able to give 1 point at a time.

Every little bit counts, of course, but it just seems crazy to me that I should have so much more power than anyone else because I have such a high post count. I've looked at tweaking the formulas, but nothing I can think of would reall fix the problem.

So because of this, I give less Rep out now that I did when we first got started. In a way, this is lame, because I think everyone should be giving out Rep all the time, but I don't want MY views to override those of 22 newer users, ya know?

Unfortunately though, I really don't see a way around this.