Kynnaria Merlin

lol'd

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.

Why disable it, its not doing anything, and like I said before.. Its a "lol" factor. It will always be abused, and never be used correctly, so why bother disabling it when no one pays attention to it lol. Just look at Aryte's +80 and my -30.. no one really cares.

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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.

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.

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*

Thread closed. :<

Awesome, thanks!

I think after the restraining order and the crack spider in the car and popping a cap into the ass of the caffiene spider, I do believe its fake.


LMAO.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAkgc9WX-Dg


I will forever love that announcer.

Awesome, thanks!

What with the recent forum update and all, there are a few new features that I, and probably at least several others, are still wondering as to the function of. The biggest one, for me at least, is this whole 'Reputation' business. While I assume it's some sort of rating system, I can't find any sort of 'Rate Me' button, which begs the question, "How does one increase or decrease one's reputation if there's no visible means to do so?" So, here's the obligatory 'WTF' thread. Enjoy.

Welcome Chase!

Ex-Mercz? Hopefully see you out on the battlefield soon, make yourself at home and drink a pina-colada while shooting people in the face.


55 pushups >:O

Oh right *facepalms at forgetting the EU star*


Anyways, even gladder to have you. :D

looks like somebody is in love

Thread closed. All of you posting in this thread: I'm keeping an eye out for your spam. If it continues I will start deleting posts.

You're not masturbation?

Didn't make any sense, but Therman, I'm assuming you're suffering from the great and almighty, but scary, erectile dysfunction. Sucks, go get help.

hurp durp im crash lol herman1111!

Your herm gurlfriend?

Already done, I drew finger puppets and reinacted monte python.


not really, I just wanted to be a jackass LIKE YOU xD

>:|
Srsbsns I need games

quick everyone DONT CLICK XAYVIEN.

Let him be stuck at 0 forever.

I demand to have negative 1000.

how many does it take to get excellent reputation? Also, Aryte is epic and deserves many +'s