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[DanishBagger]

Sounds about right, Guillermo.

At least it would be an improvement to how the system works right now.

[Wellydeckhand]

Why not just elect a president? This sound like a campaine toooo long.

[DanishBagger]

Originally Posted by Wellydeckhand

Why not just elect a president? This sound like a campaine toooo long.

Well, we already have a popularity contest going, so maybe, just maybe.

Of course I would rather do without this system, but if what Guillermo said could at least be done, then that would be one small step in the right direction (direction being: Getting rid of the system).

[safewalrus]

Gilly

Again you make great sense. If we must have this God awful system, as you say it should onlu cover the technical section - the open section which can and does cover some quite provocitave subjects can esily loose people through the likes or dislikes of the minority! Well said!

[Vega]

Originally Posted by Wellydeckhand

The rule of forum and code of conduct do not applied to backstabbing member who gave me bad rep but do not give comment.......................... That is heroic........................................ I mean I have one because exposing Micheal jackson femane side … Is it fair?... this is racialist at work!!!!!

Originally Posted by Jeff

A Forum Reputation feature … provide a way to encourage positive and productive communication by giving forum members the opportunity to easily give post content positive or negative feedback along with giving or taking "Forum Reputation Points" to or from other members based on the content of their posts. ….

…. if you do find a poster to be posting posts which are offensive, wildly off topic, or without any content, the reputation feature can be a subtle way to anonymously let that poster know that their behavior is not appreciated by other members of the community.

I was the one who gave you a negative feedback to your post with Michael Jackson disguised as a woman.


You say “[quote=Wellydeckhand]Anyway I think this girl at least had her picture on the forum
[/QUOTE](Image of a cover of Playboy magazine with MJ disguised as a woman)


It looks (to me) out of order in a thread that intend to incentive women to post:

Originally Posted by Wynand N

Hi everyone
Women are quite active in other forums (Cruisers Forum comes to mind). Surely we can do with a few of them around, always nice to have a womans perspective as well, even how crooked it may be.
Wynand Nortje

Everything is a matter of opinion, but I do not find that your post has any content with the thread and in my opinion, it can degrade the image of women and homosexuals.

Saying that this has anything to do with racism and backstabbing is ridiculous.

I have nothing against you (least of all I want to see you out of this forum) and I favor an open forum, but I am a little ashamed of the content of some threads regarding women. An occasional joke is okay, but repeatedly showing women as objects (instead of sailors, designers and possible contributors to this forum) is not the way I consider fit to promote their more active involvement in this forum, not to speak of the “primitive” image that it gives of this forum, an image I don’t share and that I don’t like.

[longliner45]

why single welly out? he didnt have a thread called (girls on boats whats with that)and there is a half dozen other threads with the same content, no wonder women stay away!as for homosexuals I havent seen anything ,,,,,not that im looking,this was not a tecknical tread to begin with,

[Jeff]

Originally Posted by longliner45

why single welly out?

Why do you say welly was singled out?? Remember the reputation system works by rating post content on a post by post basis, not forum members as a whole.

As far as the forum rules outlined in this thread, they apply to everyone.

[Vega]

Originally Posted by longliner45

why single welly out? he didnt have a thread called (girls on boats ,

I did not single welly out. That thread was not like the thread "Girls on boats"(a generic thread). It was a specific subject thread ,that intended to incentive women to post. The welly's playboy image post did seem to me completely out of topic and without any content regarding the subject of the thread.
Off course, as I have said, it is a matter of opinion and I can be wrong. Nevertheless, it is my opinion.

[longliner45]

understood, forum rules apply to everyone , equally, so why is everone picking on welly? and ignoring other threads that are equally off color? like ive stated before ,any woman would be sceptical of this site , cant blame them .espescially when so much is condond, if vega wants to critisise welly, why not the others??????????///

[marshmat]

I'm afraid I've come to agree with Walrus about the reputation-points thing... seems that since I approved of several member's posts several weeks ago, I'm not allowed to leave any feedback on any posts by said members anymore. "You must spread some reputation around before giving it to xxxxx again..." well, I've left both + and - comments on many many posts since then; how many posts do I have to approve of before the system will actually work? Sorry Jeff, but I have to come out in favour of scrapping it.

[Jeff]

Originally Posted by marshmat

I'm afraid I've come to agree with Walrus about the reputation-points thing... seems that since I approved of several member's posts several weeks ago, I'm not allowed to leave any feedback on any posts by said members anymore. "You must spread some reputation around before giving it to xxxxx again..." well, I've left both + and - comments on many many posts since then; how many posts do I have to approve of before the system will actually work? Sorry Jeff, but I have to come out in favour of scrapping it.

This is to prevent the abuse that many worried about where you for example would rate one or a few members "of an clique" over and over again.

[longliner45]

vega the thread was ( wear are the woman) hardly a tecknical thread

[Jeff]

Originally Posted by longliner45

understood, forum rules apply to everyone , equally, so why is everone picking on welly?

Evidence please? He posts a large amount, so it doesn't seem unreasonable to me that more posts = more feedback. His rating is now higher than when the system started two weeks ago and assigned everyone a 10 as a starting point, thus I don't see how "picking on" applies? In total, there have been 145 reputation comments made, and by scanning through the admin log of comments, it does not appear that welly was signled out or picked on.

[Vega]

Originally Posted by longliner45

vega the thread was ( wear are the woman) hardly a tecknical thread

I did not say that it was a technical thread, I have said that was a thread with the specific purpose of incentiving women to post.
It is a thread posted by Wynard and its opening post was:

Originally Posted by Wynand N

Hi everyone

Are there any women in this forum Or are we just a bunch of MCP's?

Women are quite active in other forums (Cruisers Forum comes to mind). Surely we can do with a few of them around, always nice to have a womans perspective as well, even how crooked it may be.

Fair winds

Wynand Nortje

The subject is quite clear to me.

[longliner45]

quit clear to me too; go back and read the thread , over half had chovenistic comments , but hey dont bother them , bother welly