Reputations

[Boromir88]

Fordhim, yes I think most of my reps have come from the things I posted in Middle-Earth mirth .

Either my computer is still screwed up in a way, or people just aren't repping me with a reply. I've been randomly going up 10 points but there is no reply, just blank. This puzzles me whether I still got gigs to work out in the computer, or that person(s) just doesn't give a reply (not that I'm complaining lol).

[The Saucepan Man]

I have recently (within the space of a few days) received two reps (on the same thread) without a message, which is unusual since all my previous rep points for some months have included messages. What's more, one of the posts repped was not (in my view) particularly rep-worthy.

Have others been experiencing the same thing? If so, I suspect that some random and indiscriminatory rep-awarding may be going on ...

Or maybe I'm just reading too much into it.

[HerenIstarion]

I've got two negative anonymous ratings and one positive (quite a weighty one too).

To be anonymous is rater's choice = random and indiscriminatory rep-awarding. No problem there, I reckon

[Boromir88]

The loose random repper must be fairly influential. I am getting 10 pts each time I get repped. Unless someone has found a way to cheat the system.....

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by HI

rater's choice = random and indiscriminatory rep-awarding.

True. But the motives might nevertheless be frowned on.

Say that two people were randomly repping just so that they could rep each other more frequently - or one person was doing so to climb up the 'generosity' table. Or say that I consistently repped Fordim and davem negatively to try to get to the top of the table (now there's a thought ). We would all be within our rights, but the motives would be frowned on and the integrity of the system prejudiced.

Having said that, the weighty nature of the messageless reps (including one of mine) would suggest that foulplay is unlikely to be afoot.

[Lindolirian]

Such a case would be rather unfortunate, but the chances of an abuser that you describe, Saucepan, being a member with a heavy weight are slim. I can hardly see anyone on that list doing something like that, so the system has be engineered to be very difficult to abuse because these random reppers won't have much effect on anything.
Perhaps your anonymous reps were from people who enjoyed your post, but couldn't think of how to put their feelings into words and consequently forgot to sign it since they wrote nothing else.
At the worst case, I have a feeling that these abusers will disappear like BW's "wizard" did some time ago.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

No complaints from me about our "random repper", as I just checked on my User CP and saw that my points raised significantly from a post of mine (of what I thought lesser quality than some of my others) in The White Horse Inn. I am curious about the lack of signature or comment though, since what got me into the habit of signing my reps (both negative and positive) was seeing signatures on reps given to me by the higher weighted 'Downers.

Fea