Idiot posts cluttering up the forum

jack frost,

My hat is off to you. You have gotten Walrus to agree with you, and he did it using only a single, appropriate, and correctly spelled word! Amazing.

Walrus,

That you did so is equally amazing. My hat is off to you, also.


Now if only I could learn to use fewer words myself ...

 

Walrus did what???

Hang on a minute I gotta check this out.

Wow that does appear to be true, Oh Oh I feel like a gotta throw up.

 

Wow, jack, you're so amazed you used mutiple question marks.

 

Do three question marks = one smiley?

 

Apparently so, poida.

 

Oh I hate it when people use multiple exclamation marks. What ***** would do that???

But not as much as I hate smileys Jees I hate those silly little faces.

Dont you???

 

Yes, I do!!!!!

 

To get back to the points thing,

Charmc has got nearly twice as many pointa as I do.

That means that I have a little over half as many points as he does.

Taking into consideration that he has posted only a little more than 1/3rd of the postings I have made.

Does this mean that Charmc is nearly twice as smarter than I am?

Or am I nearly twice as dumb as he is.

Or is comments from Charmc considered to be nearly twice as likely to be true.

Or is it that nealry 1/3 of my postings are likely to be crap.

Should the post of a person with few points be disregarded and not worthy of consideration.

Just like to know what the points actually mean, especially to a new comer.

 

Its very quiet round here!


I was rather looking forward to a reply from the post above.


I know its a difficult question but it should have an answer.

It was not a rhetorical question.

Should any one feel like responding --please leave the bit out about points encouraging disapline,--I already laughed at that one.

 

I've only posted feedback a couple of times (both positive!), but didn't realise it was anonymous - so if you're wondering who the generous soul was, it was me. I quite like them on the whole, they give you some idea of who has something useful say (they’re not really relevant to the Open Discussion bit, are they?). They are just a bit of fun really, you can't take them too seriously (but its always nice when someone gives you some positive feedback - hint, hint). If you’re on here long enough you soon work out who your favourite posters are anyway. There are some people with more points than I think they deserve, and others with fewer - ut no systems perfect. Incoherent ramble over.

 

BTW - how do you know how many points will be awarded/deducted?

 

Points given depend on your own reputation, the length of time you've been a member of the forum, and the number of posts you've made.

 

Ah, thanks Jeff. DO you get to give yourself more points as moderator? Just kidding, please don't dock me!

 

Yes, if you ever see my rep at 999,999,999,999 you'll know the moderator snapped and went on a power trip

Is it a perfect system? No, not even close.

But I think that it helps more than it hurts.

The problem comes when this breaks out into back-and-forth insulting and arguing. While somewhat entertaining, this becomes a huge distraction from the more interesting real discussion at hand. PMs or email are a good means for two members to work out arguments in private. But then, someone has to be a real jerk or post some hugely inaccurate advice for most people to step up and say "hey, you've gone too far." So the rep system was originally put in place to provide a means for the community as a whole to give some subtle feedback as to how a member is being received by the community as a whole. Perfect, no. But my opinion is still that it helps (me as moderator, and the quality of the forum overall) more than it hurts. Please don't get all bent out of shape because of one anonymous comment. If you get 10 or 20 negative comments, please take a step back and consider why. That is all I ask. And to everyone, please use the rep system for positive purposes more than negative.

 

Wow, is that the max? I've got a long way to go.