Forum Reputation Feature Enabled

[Samhayne]

We have enabled the forum Reputation Feature.

This allows posters to a means to thank other users for their posts. As a user receives thanks, in the form of reputation points, the green bar under their name will advance.

You use the Reputation feature by clicking on the small Thumbs-Up button next to the Report Post button.



When you click on the Thumbs-Up Reputation button on someone else's post, it will bring up a pop up where you can approve or disapprove of the post and leave a note. When you approve, it grants some Reputation to that user. If you disapprove, it subtracts some reputation from that user.



Comments are only viewable by the Administration and by the poster receiving the Reputation. Abuse of the Reputation feature will result in action being taken on the posters forum and game account.

If you click on the Thumbs-Up Reputation button on one of your posts, you can see any notes left and what your current Reputation is.



You can also view the latest changes to your reputation from your user control panel (click "Settings" in the upper right from the full version of the forums) http://www.spacetimestudios.com/usercp.php

Please let us know what you think about this feature!

[Silentarrow]

Sounds like a cool addition!

[Otukura]

Is there anyway to see exactly how many points someone else has?

[Conradin]

Finally something for helpful forumers. This will be a great way to get new forumers involved in helping the comunity.

[Cascade]

Yay! Thanks guys

[wvhills]

does anyone else see this being flammed and abused? Sorry, it's a good idea but I think it's going to lead to a lot of drama and more problems than benefits.

[Conradin]

does anyone else see this being flammed and abused? Sorry, it's a good idea but I think it's going to lead to a lot of drama and more problems than benefits.

Remember only devs can see the responses. That way they can check and see if people are boosting aswell as doing other things.

[Roasty]

does anyone else see this being flammed and abused? Sorry, it's a good idea but I think it's going to lead to a lot of drama and more problems than benefits.

Don't be so pessimistic! I think this option is great!

[WhoIsThis]

Don't be so pessimistic! I think this option is great!

I have seen exactly this idea abused before in other forums.

[Roasty]

I have seen exactly this idea abused before in other forums.

Is it really that bad?

[Tvis]

This feature is interesting. I hope it can stay clean and fun, without abuse.

[WhoIsThis]

Is it really that bad?

Well, aside from it becoming a popularity contest (most likely outcome), there are other outcomes possible. You could have people creating new accounts just to boost their own popularity. You could have friends thumbing up friends just to boost each other, etc.

It'd be also easy for somebody that wanted to contaminate it do so. All they have to do is to give everybody that starts a flame war a "thumbs up".

Either way, unless people are 100% honest, its unlikely to become something reliable.

[Zaltiar]

Oh haha seems like a nice feature

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[Lesrider]

As long as the devs aren't using it as a basis to reward people, I don't see the harm in it.

[TANKKAAR]

My first thought when I read this was "what a great idea & what a great tool to have so it can be seen who is actually helping on forums and who is just boosting post counts with nonsense posts" . But after reading everyones posts I remembered this is reality and how naive of me to think people could actually be honest :-/ All I know is I will use this in the proper manner and only give reputation points where they are deserved and I hope for the sake of good ideas everywhere that everyone else can do the same......lol

[Kossi]

ooh

[Piosidon]

Dang, Sam's got alot already

[JaytB]

Sweet

Too bad it isn't available in the tapatalk app

[TANKKAAR]

Sweet

Too bad it isn't available in the tapatalk app

im sure it will be added in the near future :-)

[Samhayne]

I understand your fears of abuse. There are systems built in to prevent much of what you're concerned with. No, I won't list the parameters it uses to look for abuse or prevent it (because well, that sort of defeats the point, no?).

In hindsight, I wish that we'd enabled this feature a lot earlier in the lifecycle of the forums so long time positive members of the community would already have reputation built up, but hey, it is what it is.