The New Rep System Is A Joke

[Arthur Brain]

You were the victim of exclusion bullying as a child, weren't you.

Funnily enough, no. Rather bemusing that you'd conflate a thread regarding an observation over something obvious to a rather feeble personal slur of sorts. Very Christian I'm sure.

Conspiratorial AND envious. You are quite an emotionally eclectic mix.

Eh, you've totally missed the point if you think envy has anything at all to do with this. Years ago, when the rep system was very different I had one of the highest scores on here at one point but in hindsight it was all simply a joke back then as well. There's nothing conspiratorial about being observant, having a fair amount of arithmetical ability and seeing the patently obvious.

 

[Arthur Brain]

I remember red77
when
he took them on
and
beat them even though many times in the middle of the night there would be a shake up

he never gave up until he gave up

he was fun

That was nine years ago Chrys and I'm sorry if not being particularly interested in repeating the same makes me boring. Frankly, I didn't start this thread to spark off another 'rep war' as it was pretty sad looking back really. I think this latest is sad in its own way but hey.

 

[Ktoyou]

This thread needs something? Maybe a

Mudshark

Of you want to see it, I will post it again, but only at night, not sure it is child appropriate?

 

[freelight]

Worshipping the Universal Father.........

Worshipping the Universal Father.........

And you aren't embarrassed by that? … That there's a clique of TOL favorites rigging the system and then sitting around furiously 'repping' each other so they can appear to be so much more popular than everyone else?

Man! That's really kind of … pathetic. :freak:

We ought to seek the praise of 'God' rather than men.

The 'ego' can be transcended as well, where worship of 'God' alone is supreme.





pj

 

[Grosnick Marowbe]

We ought to seek the praise of 'God' rather than men.

The 'ego' can be transcended as well, where worship of 'God' alone is supreme.





pj

 

[rainee]

Hold on hold on.
May I talk? Ok.
I need to give pos reps to:
A) show approval
B) show affection
And C) whine or complain, chastise and rebuke. And last but not least
D) show how funny or witty or pointed they, or I, or both, are.


I need to be able to do that, thank you.
Now if there is networking going on it is showing affection and approval, so what can I say?

Just as long as the real ability remains for me to quickly show someone has either totally hit the nail on the head or have driven me crazy yet once again - or some other really cool communication - then life is good for me, yes?

There is a saying about don't let someone else steal your bliss or something weird like that and that is a kinda good thing to remember. What does it matter who has what as long as you are getting loved and fed and so forth? I mean really?

 

[annabenedetti]

Oh, and less than 12 hours later, that 3535 is now 4666. :chuckle:

9722. Another day, another 5056 points...


Tam, you gave me one rep yesterday, and it was worth almost 100 points.

My rep is worth 4 points.

I appreciate your good intentions, but please don't rep me again. The points are empty calories, gained via a system that you're determined to pretend doesn't exist. If it makes you happy then I'm glad for you, but it's not for me.

 

[annabenedetti]

Much of the rep-power is based on how long you have been a TOL member, how many posts you have made, etc. Therefore on day 1 when everyone's rep is set to zero then the system recalculates all that data and some folks naturally start off with more rep-power.

You mean that's how it's based for non-Soots members.

It looks more ridiculous by the day to pretend otherwise.

 

[PureX]

There is a saying about don't let someone else steal your bliss or something weird like that and that is a kinda good thing to remember. What does it matter who has what as long as you are getting loved and fed and so forth? I mean really?

I don't think anyone is getting 'worked up' over this. Honestly. We're just having a discussion about it, and we may disagree, as happens in any discussion about anything.

Like you, I use the rep thing to let people know that I appreciated their comments. And I like to do it off the thread because I don't want to encourage the "eco chamber" effect that occurs when people start congratulating each other on the threads. (That used to happen a lot in the past, on here.)

But I do think it's both pathetic and weird that some folks are so concerned with appearing popular that they'd go to all the trouble of rigging the rep system, and spending time repping each other about nothing, just to achieve that appearance.

But hey, if that's how they roll …

 

[annabenedetti]

I don't think anyone is getting 'worked up' over this. Honestly. We're just having a discussion about it, and we may disagree, as happens in any discussion about anything.

I don't think so either, that's a rhetorical tool to make it look like someone's speaking from emotion instead of reason. Implying that someone has to be jealous or envious simply because they don't have a problem pointing out the elephant in the room.

 

[Tambora]

please don't rep me again.

OK.

 

[PureX]

I don't think so either, that's a rhetorical tool to make it look like someone's speaking from emotion instead of reason. Implying that someone has to be jealous or envious simply because they don't have a problem pointing out the elephant in the room.

Yes, it's a common trick. One that mostly only works on those who are invested in tricking themselves.

So for them, I guess it's successful. :chuckle:

 

[Tambora]

I don't think anyone is getting 'worked up' over this. Honestly. We're just having a discussion about it, and we may disagree, as happens in any discussion about anything.

I don't think so either, that's a rhetorical tool to make it look like someone's speaking from emotion instead of reason. Implying that someone has to be jealous or envious simply because they don't have a problem pointing out the elephant in the room.

Since we're discussing .....
The rep system is working just as it did before the reset.
Why were you accepting of my "empty calories" to you before the reset?
I would have given you rep no matter how the system was set. And none of my reps to you were ever just empty jesters.
Long story short, I am not the one that has changed.

 

[musterion]

Almost as gross as finding self-worth in the opinions of anonymous Internet forum users?

Precisely the point.

 

[PureX]

I would have given you rep no matter how the system was set. And none of my reps to you were ever just empty gestures.

I believe this is true. And is true for most of the folks, here.

And that was nice of you to say, too.

 

[lovemeorhateme]

I was wondering what had happened to my rep!

:noid:

 

[annabenedetti]

Since we're discussing .....
The rep system is working just as it did before the reset.
Why were you accepting of my "empty calories" to you before the reset?
I would have given you rep no matter how the system was set. And none of my reps to you were ever just empty jesters.
Long story short, I am not the one that has changed.

Like I said earlier, we only occasionally exchanged rep, Tam. That's all it's ever been.

I've gained a new understanding. Your rep never had the point power then as it has right now compared to everyone else, it was the same as quite a few who'd gotten to the top of the heap and couldn't go any higher, Soots or no Soots. I rarely thought about how anyone got there, accepting my place in the grand scheme of things. I'm one of those who thought the comments were the best part of getting rep. I was never the right religion and as my political views changed over time, reps from anyone on the far right were few and far between. That didn't bother me, and still doesn't bother me, it's the rep comments from friends that have made my day many, many a time.

I'm pointing out that there's another system, something none of you has denied, only tried to walk around it in this thread in various ways according to your different personalities. Shrug it off, celebrate it, joke about it, say very little, insult others for bringing it up, ask for proof (knowing the proof is possible), whatever. Each of you is different.

You were the first one to bring it up:

Now, if folks think my repping them is an unfair advantage, then I will just quit repping them.
Funny thing is, that some of those that think my repping them is an unfair advantage have not made a single effort to ask me to stop using "my unfair advantage" to rep them.
In their eyes, any rep I give anyone is an unfair advantage to them. So, anyone that has a rep from me already has a rep score that is unfair. Right?

And I'm going to take you up on your offer. I appreciate the times we've agreed, or enjoyed something together, and the chances we've had in the women's club to find a more personal connection. I don't doubt that you mean well, but we have so little in common either religiously or politically that our crossing paths over rep would have continued to be just as infrequent as it's ever been.

 

[Tambora]

Anna,

If certain posters are giving out rep that is "unfair" in your estimation, do you reject all of the rep from those certain posters, or just from me?

 

[Tambora]

I was wondering what had happened to my rep!

:noid:

Hey hey!
Good to see you again!

 

[annabenedetti]

Anna,

If certain posters are giving out rep that is "unfair" in your estimation, do you reject all of the rep from those certain posters, or just from me?

I can't "reject" rep from anyone, pos or neg, unless I turn off my rep and then I'd lose what I value the most, the rep comments from friends.

Of the Soots members I know about, I wouldn't be getting rep from most of them (unless it was a neg rep - one of them neg repped me the other day for "misbehaving" :chuckle: ).

Since the reset I've gotten one neg rep and two pos reps from Soots members. One pos rep was from you. That's it.

Thinking about it, all that mad rep rampaging you're all doing, and I agree with AB. This reset, which is only a freshening up of the old system, (the old rigging replaced with shiny new rigging), will serve to show (as it's designed to do), who toes the forum bias line, who doesn't, and who doesn't mind riding on the coattails of those who do. Because human nature being what it is, there's going to be some major sucking up going on here by a few for whom rep points really do matter.

So consider this an open request to any Soots member who's a friend of mine, and I hope you'll all understand the spirit in which I'm asking.