New Rep System

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Posted at February 26, 2009, 2:28 pm:

Hi MoFos

As you may have noticed already, there are little icons on each post now; a thumbs up, and a thumbs down. These represent the new rep system. Here are the pertinent changes:A thumbs up is +1, a thumbs down is -1. It doesn't matter who you are, how many posts you have, or how long you've been a member.Clicking the icon will not interfere with your browsing at all. The icons should be replaced by a confirmation almost instantly, without any reloads or delays. It's been built this way to encourage people to continuously rate posts as they read through a thread.You may approve or disapprove of each post one time. Subsequent ratings will be ignored.Ratings are anonymous.As before, it's up to each member to decide what criteria to use for approving or disapproving of a post. I very strongly recommend, however, that we all remain open to disapproving of posts even from people we generally like. One of the problems with the old system is that people took it personally when they received negative rep. It became a bomb you drop only when you very strongly disapproved of what someone had to say

I don't specifically desire that we have a high number of negative ratings, of course, but a system that truly reflects what people think is going to have a fair number of them. If the overwhelming majority of the ratings are positive, it means the system isn't really working. I plan to disapprove of any posts I find rude, overly sensitive, irrational, highly off-topic, or even uninsightful

My hope is that this system will allow the community to quantify not just its positive feelings towards users and posts, but it's negative ones as well, so that we can find a way to highlight positives and discourage negatives. Doing the latter without upsetting people is a tall order, but I think this may help

A few tweaks are upcoming, of course. I'll likely be programming in a safeguard to stop people from approving or disapproving of the same person too often, and a minimum post count may be implemented as well. I don't think we'll be instituting any sort of increased ratings (positive or negative) for tenure or post counts, however

I'll be replying to this thread a little later with a few ideas for where I plan to take this system. There are quite a few practical applications that I'm very excited about. In the meantime, please feel free to respond with your thoughts. I welcome any and all input. I've put a lot of thought into this system, and I admit I am a little married to the core concepts, but I'm definitely open to moderate changes

Fire away, MoFos

EDIT: if you're just reading this, check out my post later in the thread, detailing potential uses for the system.

Original of the message was taken from http://www.movieforums.com/community/

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