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Ordo Imperialis Forum Users, Our website has gone through numerous leaps and bounds in growth since it's debut on April 3, 2008. It is an invaluable mode in which Ordo personnel have been using to communicate for over a year, providing all with the ability to speak out with any questions, concerns, information, or just general fun banter. I am happy to say my primary mission, to create a portal on the web for Ordo to communicate and share, has been a fantastic success. I still have the mission of improving this mode, of which I will do to the best of my abilities. Now, with that said, I would like to make an important comment on our forum usage. I read every topic that pops up, it's part of the job description of being an Administrator. I have noticed an increasing amount of posts that would be deleted upon reading by a typical forum administrator around the net. These posts range from spam, flame, and off-topic, to even the abuse of posting regulations. Here's a quick scenario of what I am seeing lately in threads. This scenario can be applied to all types of threads, in all types of forums. As a select few of you reading the above thread may have realized, there is something very wrong with it. Every single post, aside from OP's, is off-topic, spam, or flame, and would normally be deleted in a professionally run forum. The thread above is about EUGENE'S awesome hamster. Not Jacob's. John shouldn't be posting in the thread all together, he doesn't like hamsters or knows very little about them. Tina is abusing the rep system because she's being spiteful. Jacob shouldn't feed the troll. Jacob shouldn't double post. Tina wants attention. Eugene, the OP, is now off-topic. Haley is absolutely off-topic. Intus has been nice and isn't deleting these sort of posts lately. Why? Because I like to promote forum activity, and deleting posts would make people angry face and perhaps stop visiting the forums all together because they can't be silly. In the future I will be monitoring threads more closely, and if your off-topic post doesn't appear the next time you visit that thread, don't be surprised. Read the topic title and the OP post before you make your post. For example, if you wanted to post in Eugene's thread, it would be a post about Eugene's awesome hamster. "I like his coat." "What are you feeding him?". "Be careful with what he eats." "Can he do tricks?". are all fair on-topic game for Eugene's thread. These are on topic because Eugene's topic is about his awesome hamster, and those posts are.. about eugene's awesome hamster. Now, if the topic title was "My hamster is ill," then "Can he do tricks?" and "I like his coat." are offtopic, but "What are you feeding him?" and "Be careful with what he eats." are still on topic. Anyway. That is all, thank you for reading and in the future please follow standard protocol in forum posting.

A forum reputation feature, when done right, is a good thing as it promotes individuals who make good posts to continue making good posts, while individuals making bad posts can see the error in their ways and perhaps in the future spend more time making a constructive post. Unfortunately, if irresponsible individuals abuse the system then yes, it definitely will not work. Keep in mind before voting: we haven't really given the system a real shot without abuse. This is an anonymous poll by default. Should we disable it and move on? *hint: topic is forum rep system*

[EDIT] I'd like to toss in that I have the ability to show total rep in post view (what Cyphre brought up), and I also have the right to restrict individuals from giving rep.

quick everyone DONT CLICK XAYVIEN. Let him be stuck at 0 forever.

i want a reputation D:

. . Ok stop screwing around with reputation too. :|

First of all, I got this from another forum, some download one, so i just thought it would be cool to have it on here. Anyway here is how it works: we take turns to post the next number and see how high we can get. Remember: - do not post more than 1 number at a time until someone else posts the next number - do not deliberately mess up the numbering - comments are welcome as long as you post the next number - you can also post a pictures with a number in, BUT it have to be the number following. Good Luck! Let's start: 1

Currently there is not an "unlock equivalent" regulation in place, so if you buy a minigun you don't have to unlock it, etc. The only deviation is jetpacks. You do need to unlock a jetpack before using a purchased one.

Accept it'll be useless and leave it up for uselessness' sake, or disable it because it's useless. Either way it's useless, as this forum is a side-usage from our MAIN communication method. Reputation and the like is useful if the forum is the main method of communication, but we communicate mainly in SL and only put things here for posterity / record / wanting-to-show-lulzy-things-to-offline-people.

That, or make it an admin function. Make it so only members of a certain rank, or maybe post number, can do rep points. Alternately, make individuals have a limited number of points to give out per day, based on the number of good posts they've made? That way folks who make good posts can help judge other's posts to promote more good posts.

Rep systems and the like are equally on topic with forum spam and general silliness, as was indicated in your given example and explanation. Thank you Das, for replying to my deleted post that was still applicable in the given context of this insight on forum behavior. Rep systems are pointless unless you intend to run tech support or other help. If you did not intend to bring up the issue of the rep system, then perhaps you should remove it from your example. Otherwise, face that issue just the same as the rest of the point you are trying to make. Forum spam is and always will be subjectively permitted or disallowed based upon the preference of moderators. There has definitely been plenty of it here that could be locked or deleted sooner rather than later before pages of posts roll by of pointlessness.

Stay on topic, please. Topic is forum spam, not the rep system. Agreed, yes. Although where to draw the line?

I'm generally accustomed to the forum behaviors in Something Awful's FYAD-lite forums, wherein normally-unacceptable forum behaviors are considered humorous and encouraged. These include such things as multi-posting, completely unrelated non-sequiturs, burns and flames (only if actually funny), and/or allusions to previous inside jokes regarding the subject matter in places where said inside joke was not previously invoked. If I perceive the subject matter of the thread to be of a serious nature not befitting such unacceptable behavior, I tend to keep it on topic and make reasonable contributions, but really, there's room for some silliness in other places, I think.

Is it just me or is 4 AM the best time to find yourself literally /alone/ on Titan, amirite? No Srsly. Look at this pic: --- ^^^ Only One on Titan Either I'm amazingly awesome for staying up all night to defend Titan, or I have a seeeeeerious problem. Nikolai was afk for like.. 6 hours BTW. Sykes ruined the picture by making it 4 instead of 3 on sim, lol.

I live in North Belgium :D, i dont like the french part (South)

I demand to have negative 1000.

LIES

-1 >:C

Nuuu

asssssssssssssssssss

Indeed dessy but i shall always click +1 with you :D <3

b..b.. My reputation is -30 D: It doesnt matter if its + or - it means people are actualy taking the time to click it :D

:3 I gave you a point, you're an evil dawg naow. I think the reputation thing is more of a "lol" factor than actual srsbsns.

I removed the option to + Rep yourself. It could be so abused -.- If the system doesn't work I can disable it. We'll see!

If you noticed by your post, no you cant :P I BET ARYTE PUT RUIN ON THE FORUMS JUST TO + HIMSELF. HAHAHAHAHAH I lol'd so hard.

I love how aryte's profile already has like +45... LOL. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Quick, everyone spam Crash's profile with -'s Edit'd Aryte's profile has +61.. from +30 a couple days ago.

;-; Tiridates ruined my day, now I was called fat by the only nonfat person in ordo (besides me.. and aryte..) *goes completely anti-social and rocks silently in the corner of the interwebs*

No u, Desereck. You're fat. ):<

You all are fat >:|

You all are fat >:| That is all.

I did ask for people to come onto base a few minutes earlier.. Me being the little curious person I am, always open the list showing how many people are in the chat, and I happened to watch several people close the chat window :> Ah well, people have their Second Life to deal with as well, I just laugh at how bad it would be if CS suddenly decided to lolzergrush us with 20 people.

The new reputation system is pretty cool. If someone makes a good and useful post, you can show your support to their efforts and bump them up a reputation point. It really adds up over time if everyone participates. If someone makes a not so helpful post, or flames, spams, or degrades, you can down their reputation! I drew a vector directional field to help visualize the experience.

Plz click it, So i can get more population :D <3 all of you who click http://crashsilver.myminicity.com/

But whar is your City >:O

Also Ribena i did not see nuumber 19 on that or is it a gun that is named 19?

17

PC PS2 thats all! Dude Crash Bandicoot rocks lol, well it use to be awesome when i still played it, but so many many years ago.

Ribena you will never be a star

AMG!!! I really wanna see! but i bet all of you ordo folks think same.

I will come ** Rape Rape ** lol jk

Very Nice lol

Omg lol

>:O, Join Astra James

I saw recently a dutch person in Ordo, so i thought i post this. So i was wondering how many Dutch people there are and if you are from Belgium or The Netherlands. About me: i'm Dutch and from Belgium

Well liana i could try to teach some

Congrats To those 3, happy Bday!

xD Kytec lmao

Hai well i'm new into Ordo, been in sl quite time as 2ic airforce from 2142 and as Builder building random stuff Dont really know what to put here more so Hi people! :)

lol sure why not i guess