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ybtlamw:
What we're talking about here's a sort of "reputation system." I don't know if it'd even be worth it to have one on the forums. I mean, I've only been a member for about a month, but I don't see the need for it. I frequent Kickass, and its reputation system's in place so you know who you can trust, as far as the advice they're offering or the torrents they're uploading goes. I don't really see a reputation system being necessary on these forums, because the admins and mods do a great job making sure everything's safe and neat and tidy anyway. It would be superfluous. And if we're going to hide the "likes" or "upvotes" and "downvotes" anyway, what's the point? The other person's never going to know you clicked the "like" button if you agreed with them, and neither's anyone else—rendering it pointless, in my opinion. Sure, it could be useful to the admins and mods, but that's what the reporting system's for.

Omega Entity:

--- Quote from: ybtlamw on 02 Feb 2015, 20:32 ---What we're talking about here's a sort of "reputation system." I don't know if it'd even be worth it to have one on the forums. I mean, I've only been a member for about a month, but I don't see the need for it. I frequent Kickass, and its reputation system's in place so you know who you can trust, as far as the advice they're offering or the torrents they're uploading goes. I don't really see a reputation system being necessary on these forums, because the admins and mods do a great job making sure everything's safe and neat and tidy anyway. It would be superfluous. And if we're going to hide the "likes" or "upvotes" and "downvotes" anyway, what's the point? The other person's never going to know you clicked the "like" button if you agreed with them, and neither's anyone else—rendering it pointless, in my opinion. Sure, it could be useful to the admins and mods, but that's what the reporting system's for.

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It's really not the same thing at all, though. No one's saying they want any kind of rating system, which is what you're talking about up there. All it would be would be a shorthand version of 'hey, this person's perfectly said what I wanted to, and now I don't have to clutter things up with redundant agreements. No one'd be keeping score.

As for hiding them, they were talking hiding the number of likes on the users' profile pages, not on the posts themselves, so that there wouldn't be an active tally to keep track of or to be seen.

Thrudd:
Or just hide the results from everyone but the moderators.

It has been a long while for me when it comes to coding such stuff, but such a hidden tracking system is in use by some of the blogs I occasionally frequent.
It gives the admins a tool to highlight some stuff that is worth noting, either insightful, funny/punny or just [censored].

I personally like the concept, especially during times like these when the page counts just explode .... and .. I ... just ... can't .. read ... all ... the ... posts.

TRVA123:
idk, my ideal system for this forum would be an "agree" button. and it would not be linked in any way to the forum members profile, rankings, or anything. It would just be a form of acknowledgement.

Thats what I want, a form of acknowledgement that doesn't require me to add to the conversation when I don't have anything to add.

Carl-E:
So it would just display something in the post, like "32 members agree with this post"?  Or make a list, "TRVA123 agrees, Thrudd agrees, Carl-E agrees, ..."? 

Something like that would save some frivolous posting, but it would also eliminate some of the expansion on the topic by giving the button pushers an easy way out. 


Wait, that may actually be a good thing...

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