Reputations

[Oddwen]

Hmm...got to wondering last night...if one year of being Dead = one rep point, do those who joined in "1969" have 34 points just for that? Or...not?

[wilwarin538]

Well Lal is now back on Taniquetil.

[Bêthberry]

Originally Posted by Eomer of the Warghirrim

You'd make a good politician Bb.

Alas, alas, Eomer, what party would I join? Once upon a time there was a Rhinoceros Party in Canada ... but only in Canada. Would you be thinking of starting up a Wargian Party?

Originally Posted by The Squatter of Amon Rûdh

If you're not careful you'll be back to 'getting the hang of it' before too long.

Serves you right for talking posh. Rather than risk an accusation of euphuism through a potentially equivocal use of the indirect question, it would have been more felicitous to employ the more lucid prosody that is a sine qua non of electronic discourse. After all, there are some people who wouldn't even understand the foregoing sentence, which exemplifies limpidity.

Always the grammarian, eh Squatter? Actually, I wouldn't be too surprised if I do start 'slipping'. I've actually for some time now been expecting something like that to happen as in my experience the reps I receive have at times been somewhat random.

Originally Posted by HI

Let's try and translate, though:

Quote:
Instead of talking posh and being accused of pomposity, cause the question there may have been misunderstood since it sounded like having more than one hidden meaning, it would have been more appropriate to use plainer sentence construction, which is one of the requirements when talking over the net. There are some which won't get this one either, though it is a good sample of what clear talking is


There, I hope it is more or less corresponding

You're a braver man than I am, Heren-Din, taking Squatter's words and putting their facsimile in his mouth.

[Gurthang]

I would just like to take this oppurtunity to thank all of you who gave me reps for the WWIIX game. I didn't quite expect that many... for losing! Imagine if I had won...

I also want to point out that there are 31 downers who have now acheived the once coveted eleven boxes! I am very new to the number.

It was a secret goal of mine to achieve eleven before the first page in the Members list was full of such highly reputed members. Alas, The Squatter came up and passed me just prior to me turning to the Straight Road. Congrats to you Squatter, you stole my goal, as mundane and pointless as it was.

[Glirdan]

I would like to at this time thank all those who repped me for my "Crazy Captions" posts. I was really, REALLY surprised at that. But all the same, thanks. And thank you to those people who got me to being "As Faithful As Samwise"! Thank you a lot.

[the guy who be short]

Well Lal is now back on Taniquetil.

Hmmm. The implication here is that she (and the others) had to come off Taniquetil to perform all the other tasks in their rep levels. So we can presume there were no petty-dwarves on Taniquetil - unless perhaps they just don't stalk people up there.

Originally Posted by Squatter

Serves you right for talking posh. Rather than risk an accusation of euphuism through a potentially equivocal use of the indirect question, it would have been more felicitous to employ the more lucid prosody that is a sine qua non of electronic discourse. After all, there are some people who wouldn't even understand the foregoing sentence, which exemplifies limpidity.

Bold words are words that I didn't know the meaning of prior to Heren's interpretation. Thanks to both Squatter for extending my vocabulary, and H-I for allowing me to do so with minimal effort on my part.

[wilwarin538]

My Eru! Saucie is now above davem in the rep list.

[wilwarin538]

Well I just got a rep for my latest Crazy Caption which had this message:

Sounds like one I did ages ago, but it's still hilarious. Have you heard the "Angie" one?...§

It wasn't signed, but now I'm curious to what this "Angie one" is. Could whoever this was pm me and tell me about the "Angie one". Thanks for the rep...whoever you are. *stares dreamy eyed into the distance*

[The Only Real Estel]

That symbol looks like the one Boromir88 uses on his rep notes. Hmm...

One a reputation note, I remember once in this thread the B-W posted the most repped post. I wonder if davem still holds that distinction or if someone else has wrested it from him?

[Ainaserkewen]

My Eru! Saucie is now above davem in the rep list.

Wil, when I read this it conjured up a mental image of turtles racing.

"And now ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, Saucie the Turtle has past Davem the turtle at the breakneck speed of a good post=a good rep! I'm on the edge of my chair and my backside has fallen asleep! Isn't this exciting!"

[HerenIstarion]

Originally Posted by Bb

overcome this slighting by one who robbed me of, well, it was less than 10 points actually

Just found out - the negative 'power' is half that of the positive. I.e, if you get 9 negative points it means that if you were rated positive by the same member, you would have got 18

Just an info

[Bêthberry]

Originally Posted by HerenIstarion

Just found out - the negative 'power' is half that of the positive. I.e, if you get 9 negative points it means that if you were rated positive by the same member, you would have got 18

Just an info

Fascinating. And how did you find this out, HI?

[HerenIstarion]

Rated my alter ego negative and than checked up alter ego's CP

[the guy who be short]

Poor Roggie.

Eomer now steals taters. May your coming revenge be sweet, Horsemaster.

[wilwarin538]

Congratulations my dear Eomer! I myself am this close to getting my tenth box.

EDIT: Ok maybe not that close, but I did just get box #9!

[Bêthberry]

Rumour has it that reputations are being won and lost in a party game in Rohan. And apparently squatters are being allowed!

All Downers are Unforbidden in this celebration of the return of the dark screen.

[Meneltarmacil]

Boromir88 was lately seen stealing taters from confused gaffers. Fordim probably won't be far behind. davem is back on Taniquetil, while The Saucepan Man is going out with a creepy Nazgul. Meanwhile, Bêthberry looks like a muddy-booted Baggins, probably due to "Unforbidden."

I wonder if there are more new titles to be had after one "has mounted Taniquetil again"?

[Orominuialwen]

I have just discovered something new about the reputations system. I recently neg-repped somebody for the first time. (It was for very bad behavior, and it was signed.) After doing so, in order to not run into problems because I forgot my rep was set to negative, I decide to give positive rep to a post I'd been meaning to give rep to anyway. When I went to do so, my box had been automatically reset to positive. I don't know if this was just a fluke or what, but hopefully it will help eliminate accidental neg-reps in the future. Just wanted to let you know!

[Lhunardawen]

I think I know who you neg-repped, Oromin. I was about to myself, but I figured it would be all too pointless.

[The Saucepan Man]

Hehe. I negatively repped Immasamurai, not because I thought that anything was likely to be acheived by it, but because it seemed a suitable opportunity to try to discover the next level of unpopularity.

And lo and behold, Immasamurai is now known to make more trouble then Gollum. Rather appropriate, doncha think?

So, the known neg rep levels are:

... is slipping.
... has been acting a bit like Ted Sandyman.
... is as unpopular as Bill Ferny
... makes more trouble than Gollum.

[Lalwendë]

I've never yet neg-repped anyone (mainly 'cause if I think someone's been out of order then I'd rather take it up privately) but I am now tempted to do so with this Troll. I'd normally ignore them until they crawled back under their stone but it is tempting to find out what the lower levels might be...or should I just carry on ignoring?

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Why not make an experiment? Someone should make a new user just to get neg-repped so we can see the lower levels! That's one way.

[The Saucepan Man]

Immasamurai now has two red boxes! The first such boxes ever seen on the rep table.

I am sure that his(?) account will be closed before long but, until then, I say that we should continue to experiment on this troublesome troll.

[Bêthberry]

I was just so gosh darned frustrated last night. As soon as I or Child deleted one of Immasamurai's posts or threads, he'd start up another and there wasn't an Admin in sight. Lal was so right about the uselessness of PMing him. So, I decided to negative rep him because, well, as other have said here, I thought it was the perfect opportunity to nether side of our repuptation system.

But it wasn't our troll who was the most frustrating. No! It was the failsafe system of our rep system.

It was so frustrating not to be able to give every one of his posts their rightful due attention! (We have to rep another 10 people before we can rep the first person again.) Nice to see others have come up with the same idea!

So, an important question to you all: shall I undelete his threads in Rohan so everyone has more posts to negative rep? Shall we have a bit of sport with this fellow?

Apparently on IGN there is a name for this kind of spamming. It's called "rioting." I think that is a very fascinating use of the word--evidence of how the internet has inspired linquistic creativity!

[The Barrow-Wight]

Do not feed the troll. Let's instead forget Immasamurai. He's been banned, but he'll only come back if he sees the reactions you are having. Let the troll find another forum to harass.

[The Saucepan Man]

It does illustrate, though, how impotent the efforts of these minor trolls are. Every time they try to post or start a thread it gets deleted, sooner or later they get banned and, in the meantime, life on the Downs carries on much as normal.

Admittedly, they provide extra hassle for the mods and admins, but it is vaguely amusing (and also slightly sad) to witness their pathetic and futile attempts to grab some attention.

[Bêthberry]

Well, I have to admit, Saucey, that it was a bit of sport trying to guess which web comic he would quote next in each new post, although certainly his comments about the Shire personal were rude and offensive in the extreme.

I'm just glad that he appeared to give up once I stopped deleting his posts. It was the deletion that was encouraging him to post on!

So, I suppose now we will not know what comes after "makes more trouble than Gollem."

[Morsul the Dark]

Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

Why not make an experiment? Someone should make a new user just to get neg-repped so we can see the lower levels! That's one way.

Should we?...I could make a quick account....I mean I'll only do it though if the Mods let me

[HerenIstarion]

Originally Posted by The Barrow-Wight

Since it seems that no one plans to earn those dastardly negative titles (and would we really allow anyone to sink that low?), I guess I can go ahead and reveal what I chose for each one. But first I will remark how the designers of the reputation system must have been aware that few people would end up on the disreputable side of the line, because in the default titles that came with vBulletin, there were only a few levels beneath 0 and several on the positive side. Assuming the software developers had chosen these setting intentionally, I decided I would not add any levels. I did change the number of posts needed to ascend (or descend) a notch, and, of course, I changed the titles. The original titles were all non-Middle-earthish and terribly uninteresting.

Here are the realms of rottenness that none of our member have managed to fall to.

10 This is where everyone "has started the path to adventure."
0 This person "is slipping."
-10 This guy "has been acting like Ted Sandyman."
-50 This girl "is as unpopular as Bill Ferny."
-150 This creep "makes more trouble than Gollum."
-500 This loser "ruins every discussion like Wormtongue."

And now you know the rest of the story.

P.S. Please don't ask how many positive levels there are or what their titles are. You'll have to find out when you get there

11-25-2004, page 8 (if you view threads in linear mode, 40 per page), post #282

[the phantom]

I was here when the little twerp went on his binge, and I immediately hopped over to the chat room to see if any admins were lurking there. I didn't have any luck, so I came back to the forum and proceeded to...

...give him a positive rep!

The message I sent him was obviously one that should accompany a negative rep, but since I hardly ever give out a negative rep (I think I've done it twice), I completely forgot to switch my thing over to negative.

I realized what I had done the instant I did it, but it didn't really upset me. I thought it was pretty darn funny, and I knew that he'd get more than enough negatives from other people to balance out my positive.

[Mithalwen]

I always miss out on the " fun" - could someone enlighten me by PM on what exactly went on?

[Boromir88]

I always miss out on the " fun" - could someone enlighten me by PM on what exactly went on?

And once you got it, kindly relay it to me. I'm dying to find out, ahhh the suspense is killing me. Well not really, I guess I'll live.

[the guy who be short]

Send that to me too Mith, please. It sounds annoying and interesting and interestingly annoying.

[arcticstorm]

I also want to find out about it, it sounds interesting that we actually had a saboteur and spammer ont he site.

[Glirdan]

OOO!! And me! Send it to me!! as TGWBS put it:

It sounds annoying and interesting and interestingly annoying

[Lalwendë]

I'd like to know too.

Mind, I think it was one of those same no marks that did it a few months ago. They have a thing about trolling sites to cause trouble 'cause they've been kicked off loads of forums in the past. I recognised the 'tone' they used.

[Orominuialwen]

Somebody by the name of Immasamurai went around posting various completely off-topic and vaguely obscene threads last night. (S)he was quickly banned and his/her posts were deleted. It was rather typical of the behavior of many spammers/trolls--you've seen one, you've seen them all.

On a more on-topic note, thanks to the someone in very high places (approximately 51 points! ) who gave me an anonymous rep on this post. I'm glad you agreed with my assignments!

[The Only Real Estel]

I'd take the info too; if we're talking about more specific stuff. I'm pretty much caught up on the general trouble caused.

[Lhunardawen]

So now I'm dating Bêthberry.

I see Sauce has intruded the supposedly invincible Lalwendavem.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

I'm very amazed... in the past few hours, I've gotten not one, but two unsigned pos-reps. Commented, yet unsigned. And I'm not even sure how much they're worth because I have no idea how many points I had before. How intriguing.