Punish negatively repped users?

Originally Posted by donut3.5

Actually -1 just means they were neg repped by a mod with little rep power, -4 means they were neg repped by someone with a high rep power :P
Also, Elenai has been cracking down on those "pity-reppers", I think he already knocked Void for doing it.
--donut3.5--

See neg rep is a poor excuse for minor rule violations. if anything there should be a standardized system for neg rep then. Having a big mod neg rep you for a little thing has a worse effect than a little mod neg repping you for a little thing.
Its a broken system because its not "balanced" in this respect.

Bleach tribute - spell... 08-24-2008 11:48 PM Nightbrowler i saw you got neg rep so +rep*thumbs up*
thats why neg reputation is useless

But moderators and admins can choose how much negrep to give?

And the reason is very important too. Someone who got negrep from double post/reviving (in many forums this is allowed) is probably much better user than who got negrep by stealing/flaming. Also some users get rep by some other members just to cancel it out, some not, even they were more polite afterwards.

Originally Posted by Mechanical Man

But moderators and admins can choose how much negrep to give?

I had originally assumed so, but that was a false assumption. But if so the system would be oh so much better.

As far as I know, admins can issue x amount of -rep, while moderators issue 1 per 500(?) reputation points.

Yeah, admins can issue how much they want. Ralle smacked UchihaSasuke.gr for 200.

Originally Posted by l0w_kwaliti

while moderators issue 1 per 500(?) reputation points.

It's our +rep value divided by two.

What was the reason for 200?

Anyway, rep = fail. This has been determined 100's of times before.

Originally Posted by l0w_kwaliti

As far as I know, admins can issue x amount of -rep, while moderators issue 1 per 500(?) reputation points.

Actually, Admins can use the AdminCP to adjust rep values, rather than using the reputation system itself.

Originally Posted by brad.dude03

Actually, Admins can use the AdminCP to adjust rep values, rather than using the reputation system itself.

Interesting...

Do the mods know this? Well in any case I don't want to have anything to do with this horribly conceived idea. I wish mods would remove rep from my account. (easy enough to do. Create a new user group and throw people who don't want rep in there)

Originally Posted by Hawking

I had originally assumed so, but that was a false assumption. But if so the system would be oh so much better.

This is how it is at WC3C and it works wonderfully. I believe that -1 is fair for minor offenses, -1*N for the Nth offense, and -(arbitrary number) when it isn't some standardized breach of rules. (ie. Case by case)

Here, though, because of the magnitude of people shelling out rep for no good reason (At WC3C, it's actually very difficult to earn rep), those numbers would be scaled up. Actually, it'd make the most sense to scale the amount of negrep to the positive rep of the user if >0. That way, users who have high rep get hit hard because they should know the rules by now. That way HT would lose like 20 every time he acted like a moron.

Also, my point stands that the staff needs to arbitrarily know when a user has screwed up enough to merit a ban. Seriously, I'm quite sure that the staff is capable of that reasonably.

Originally Posted by Rising_Dusk

This is how it is at WC3C and it works wonderfully. I believe that -1 is fair for minor offenses, -1*N for the Nth offense, and -(arbitrary number) when it isn't some standardized breach of rules. (ie. Case by case)

Here, though, because of the magnitude of people shelling out rep for no good reason (At WC3C, it's actually very difficult to earn rep), those numbers would be scaled up. Actually, it'd make the most sense to scale the amount of negrep to the positive rep of the user if >0. That way, users who have high rep get hit hard because they should know the rules by now. That way HT would lose like 20 every time he acted like a moron.

Also, my point stands that the staff needs to arbitrarily know when a user has screwed up enough to merit a ban. Seriously, I'm quite sure that the staff is capable of that reasonably.

I'll agree with them knowing when to ban. HOWEVER using the rep system as a form of punishment is stupid. No offense to whoever came up with that one but put down the crack pipe and look at how most successful forums work. This place is a great resource but in terms of forums it just plain old sucks because of the systems set up.

Yeah, we are all immature brats who can't stand an argument on the internets. Dude. You got neg rep. LIVE WITH IT. You know what? My first rep on THIS VERY SITE was NEGATIVE, and because of DOUBLEPOST, given to me by ARCHIAN. Thus, you, sir, have to get some balls and live with it. OMG INTERNETS ARE NOT FAIR!

Originally Posted by HappyTauren

Yeah, we are all immature brats who can't stand an argument on the internets. Dude. You got neg rep. LIVE WITH IT. You know what? My first rep on THIS VERY SITE was NEGATIVE, and because of DOUBLEPOST, given to me by ARCHIAN. Thus, you, sir, have to get some balls and live with it. OMG INTERNETS ARE NOT FAIR!

You know what? Now that I know how this site works I'm going to go ahead and simply say whats on my mind: Go fuck yourself. That post had nothing to do with neg rep and I found you're post overly rude in that nice passive aggressive context. If you want to avoid being insulted like I just insulted you don't assume to know my motives behind my posts.
Now lets wait to see what kind of punishment I get for this. *rolls eyes*