Reputation System vs. Thank You System

[larry_kush]

The reputation has slowly become redundant. With the majority of members having maxed green bars, and a few people with almost maxed red bars. The system while worked well for a while has slowly become victim to people just using it to slate users who do something wrong but even worse use it to give negative rep. to peoples opinions that they don't agree with.

So your choices are from this poll and discussion thread is;

We keep the reputation system and hope that in the near future the extended reputation bars will be complete and out of beta stage and look decent.

-or-

We can move to the Thanks System which has no annoymous comments or makes a user look unwanted with red bars under their name. The hack is at this link if you wish to read through some of it's features:

[AJAX] Post Thank You Hack - vBulletin.org Forum

Don't get this hack confused with the thanks system we have in the latest news section because this hack does the whole forum, every post can be thanked if it's been deemed helpful by others. It shows a simple text with how many thanks you have had.

Example: Thanked 3,405 times

I prefer this system, just because of the fact it can't really ever go wrong or become pointless as people will always be thanked for a good post. It will also help prevent people from posting "Thanks for link" for pages because they can just click the Thanks button.

So...get voting

Set it up like GrassCity! Their shit is perfect, you got the rep system, and you can "like" posts. Straight as fuck.

[XTaCiDe]

Fuck the reputation system, just for angry nerds that need to release rage. Thank You system doesn't leave room for much abuse.

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[Wisheezy]

Thanks for all the poll votes, one more day until' it closes and the appropriate changes will be made.

[Kuzz]

Would bring something new to the forums, but then some people that have been around for a while might not be happy with losing their status as a veteran etc, probs took quite a long time for some people. I only joined recently so it's no difference for me.

But IMO a thanks system would be better, because there can easily be people round here that have a high rank but are complete tools, that like spamming, talking nonsense and not giving an positive input. Don't take much to get the high rank tbh.

I'd go with the 'Thanks' system.

[Z!Greatest]

Yeah that would be ideal. Although if it was possible I'm sure Danny would have that feature turned on because I know a lot of negative reputation comments are pretty insulting lol

Yup, I just got this gem "cause your from fucking scotland get the fuck out of here go listen to bagpipes and wear kilts bitch" for inferring that Soulja boy was a poor rapper lol

[WRiTESiCKRHYMES]

Yup, I just got this gem "cause your from fucking scotland get the fuck out of here go listen to bagpipes and wear kilts bitch" for inferring that Soulja boy was a poor rapper lol

oh wow... so there ARE some haters on this site...

jeez man that's ridiculous.

SCOTLAND FTW!!!
Scotland's cool bruh bruh.

and i know i already said the Thank You system would be better, but I think it would help people to know who is more trustworthy on the site too. You can make 7,000 bullshit posts (or however many it takes) and be a Godfather, but if you had like 10 thank you's everybody would know your full of shit. As opposed to if you had 400 posts and a decent 350 thank you's (just an example) people would probably listen to you more than the first person...

but thats just me.

[Wisheezy]

Yeah okay so I'll be discussing this over with Danny and hopefully we'll get that Thanks system going everywhere and negative reputation turned off. Thanks for the feedback guys

[Danny M]

Yeah okay so I'll be discussing this over with Danny and hopefully we'll get that Thanks system going everywhere and negative reputation turned off. Thanks for the feedback guys

I'll do it this week