Reputations

[Gothmog]

Personally I've only neg repped one time, and it was a spammer, who wanted to advertise his site and nothing else.

It should be used with care, but there are situations where it can be done. Theoreticly I could neg rep someone for chatting for example. But that wouldn't happen before both one and two warnings were issued, as a last way to remind people of the rules. Totally useless posts, like saying "yes" when it's obvious you're doing it only for the post count could be neg repped too. But as most people here are regular members and quite frequent posters one can tolerate this behaviour in many cases, because one know that this is an isolated occurrence from the person in question. These are the situations I can imagine myself giving neg. reps.

But as you say, bilbo_baggins, neg repping shouldn't be done based on the content, unless it violates the rules of the forum. Positive repping on the other hand, that can be based on content. A great contribution is often one that open one's eyes for a certain fact, angle or way of interpret something.

I've been lucky so far when it comes to neg reps. I haven't found anyone misusing the system.

But overall there are not many truly bad writers on the Downs, so neg repping doesn't happen except by those who don't know how to use it.

No, there are certainly not many bad writers here and my believe is that most neg. reps goes to temporary members which don't use the forum as intended. But that it's mainly people who don't know how to use the system that is neg repping I dont believe. Those who don't know how to use the system has probably not been here for long and don't have much weight when it comes to repping anyway.

Now I hope i won't get my first neg rep for this quite useless and oversized posting of known facts and old information

Oh, and congratulations Valesse! What a rocket career you have! What's the secret?
EDIT: 200! Yay!

[Cailín]

I'm too nice, I think, to ever give a negative rep. I'd sooner PM the person or just ignore them if they'd commit a horrible barrow-crime.

And wow, Valesse, you are going even faster than me Congratulations! And Rune too.

[Valesse]

Originally Posted by Gothmog

Oh, and congratulations Valesse! What a rocket career you have! What's the secret?

Red meat and a glass of wine.

*chuckles* I'd have to say it's my lingering, ever slimey presence in "the Mirth".
I've been making Lord of the Rings jokes and a few comics (which I'm still trying to find) for four years now, so I've been literally stewing in my own fandom. I believe what gets more rep than anything, though, is waiting/editting until you know your post is an novel as you can make it and having proper n-ettique.

Being buddy-buddy with the some of the other downers before hand doesn't hurt much, either

[Gothmog]

Being buddy-buddy with the some of the other downers before hand doesn't hurt much, either

I'll remember that to the next time I join the Downs I think Crazy Captions is a really good place to be too. I haven't been as frequent poster there lately as I was in the beginning. Maybe time for a come back!

One thing I've wondered about is the green/yellow squares indicating rep point. Why do they turn yellow? Is it just a way of simplifying counting of the squares? I read the early post in this thread and someone said that you need more than 100 p per square when they're yellow, but so far I've not noticed any difference. Could somebody confirm that it lacks any deeper meaning? Thanks...

[Boromir88]

Many people on the downs do misuse negative repping

Not only do I think that's a poor excuse for negative rep, but I don't think you should negative rep somebody on the grounds of disagreeing with them.

I think the Negative reps are for people who disrupt (spammers as Gothmog says) or people who are way off track and post something that has nothing to do with the discussion topic. And even then I can still tolerate a lot of it and simply ignore it.

One thing I've wondered about is the green/yellow squares indicating rep point. Why do they turn yellow? Is it just a way of simplifying counting of the squares? I read the early post in this thread and someone said that you need more than 100 p per square when they're yellow, but so far I've not noticed any difference. Could somebody confirm that it lacks any deeper meaning?

I actually think that's what it is. Perhaps it's not. I don't know all the "titles," but up until you get to "Aragorn's Court" all the green boxes represent 100 rep pts. The rest of the boxes (should be yellow once you reach Aragorn's court) means it took more than 100 rep points, I don't know the numbers. One of them I think you need like 500 points to get to the next title...something like that.

[Gurthang]

To get from one box to the next:

Box 1: 0 points
Box 2-6: 100 points each
Box 7-10: 200 points each
Box 11: 500 points

Hope that helps.

EDIT: Okay, that should be right now. Sorry, I forgot that you get one yellowish box before it starts counting by 200.

[Gothmog]

Are you sure of that, Gurthang? Because I count my boxes to 7, but my rep points stops at a sum under 800.

But thank you, very helpful!

[Eonwe]

woah! didn't even notice the yellowness!