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    Re: Negative rep - is it useful?

    Quote Originally Posted by woodface View Post
    But that would stop people posting!!!!
    Only those who give a t0ss.

    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    nah, it would stop people caring about rep though.
    Was I supposed to care? No-one told me!

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    Re: Negative rep - is it useful?

    Quote Originally Posted by woodface View Post
    But that would stop people posting!!!!
    In some cases, that might not be such a bad thing...

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    Re: Negative rep - is it useful?

    Quote Originally Posted by woodface View Post
    But that would stop people posting!!!!
    Only if they obsessed about their rep score. Most people look at the rep to posts ratio now, with the assumption that someone with lots of posts and little rep must basically be posting huge amounts of drivel. It doesn't seem to noticeably affect people's behaviour.

    My post ave is 30 a day.15 of them are in the one word posts. 10 are defending myself/someone else and the other 5 prob have a decent bit of content.
    Doing a vgrep over your last 200 posts:

    200 posts ago was 7:58pm on Dec 12th. So you've made 200 posts in a 3 and a half days - roughly twice your claimed 30 a day. Of those 200 posts, I saw 9 relating to the one word threads - I might have missed a few, but not many, I think. (At least, nowhere near enough to get to the 50% of your posts that you're implying above).
    Last edited by David Franklin; 15th-December-2006 at 01:41 PM. Reason: Added bit in () at the end.

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    Re: Negative rep - is it useful?

    Quote Originally Posted by woodface View Post
    In the 950 odd posts I have made. I've had two neg reps. I think that must be a pretty good average.
    Really? I'm on 3,222 posts and never once had neg rep.(Doesn't mean i want any either!) So to get 2 neg reps so soon after joining seems quite high to me.
    I've only ever given it out once, when someone said something very personal about me i didn't want everyone to know about. I think i'd only give it to someone if they were being deliberately cruel and hurtful to somebody.

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    Re: Negative rep - is it useful?

    Quote Originally Posted by Cruella View Post
    I think i'd only give it to someone if they were being deliberately cruel and hurtful to somebody.
    I think you might be inviting trouble, with an offer like that!
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    Re: Negative rep - is it useful?

    Quote Originally Posted by David Franklin View Post
    Only if they obsessed about their rep score. Most people look at the rep to posts ratio now, with the assumption that someone with lots of posts and little rep must basically be posting huge amounts of drivel. It doesn't seem to noticeably affect people's behaviour.

    Doing a vgrep over your last 200 posts:

    200 posts ago was 7:58pm on Dec 12th. So you've made 200 posts in a 3 and a half days - roughly twice your claimed 30 a day. Of those 200 posts, I saw 9 relating to the one word threads - I might have missed a few, but not many, I think. (At least, nowhere near enough to get to the 50% of your posts that you're implying above).
    I was using my stat ave from when i started. Your figures are def wrong as alot of my posts that type of thread. I havn't sat there and worked out the actual percentage but it must be around that kind of figure.

    If I din't post as much it wouldn't give the moaners as much to moan about would it

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    Re: Negative rep - is it useful?

    Quote Originally Posted by woodface View Post
    And who are they? In the 950 odd posts I have made. I've had two neg reps. One was from Andy M and the other was a Harper rep so nothing unexpected.
    Yeah. But you should have had 3. I so meant that rep I sent you to be negative. And I pleaded with Franck to change it from positive to negative. (Of course, that would have left you on 55 rep points, not 64)

    Quote Originally Posted by Stuart M View Post
    "Any post complaining about or even alluding to NR received should be neg-repped by as many folk as possible."
    Hey. Nice plan. I did start neg-repping people who were blatently asking for rep at one point. But I like your idea too!

    Quote Originally Posted by woodface View Post
    But that would stop people posting!!!!
    Only the really sad people who actually care about the rep points that they have.

    Quote Originally Posted by woodface View Post
    Thats where most of my posts go. My post ave is 30 a day.15 of them are in the one word posts. 10 are defending myself/someone else and the other 5 prob have a decent bit of content.
    Don't be silly. 5 with a decent bit of content. You've overestimated that. By. Well. By 5!

    Quote Originally Posted by woodface View Post
    Got a new project starting soon so won't have as mush time to post (everyone breaths a sigh of relief (esp Trampy))
    Oh no. Trust me. It's not just me. I'm just more vocal that some of the people here!

    Quote Originally Posted by Cruella View Post
    Really? I'm on 3,222 posts and never once had neg rep.(Doesn't mean i want any either!) So to get 2 neg reps so soon after joining seems quite high to me.
    Me too. But I can also help you with that figure Cruella....

    Quote Originally Posted by Lory View Post
    I think you might be inviting trouble, with an offer like that!
    Great minds there Lory....

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    Re: Negative rep - is it useful?

    Quote Originally Posted by TheTramp View Post
    Me too. But I can also help you with that figure Cruella....
    What's wrong with my figure?

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    Re: Negative rep - is it useful?

    Quote Originally Posted by Cruella View Post
    What's wrong with my figure?
    Ummm. Are you sure that you want to ask that question on a public forum?

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    Re: Negative rep - is it useful?

    I refuse to give you negative rep in case you stop showing us your puppies

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    Re: Negative rep - is it useful?

    Quote Originally Posted by TheTramp View Post
    Ummm. Are you sure that you want to ask that question on a public forum?
    I'm sure i wouldn't hear anything i didn't already know! Although not sure if i want a deluge of posts telling me! So make it by PM please, my inbox has room for 4,000.

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    Re: Negative rep - is it useful?

    If your really not that bothered about reps then why post in a thread about reps?

    As I said my posts give the moaners something to moan about

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    Re: Negative rep - is it useful?

    akin to the warblings of an emaciated chicken
    this thread with woodfaces posts does thicken
    always a delight with words squeezed like a pimple
    his posts bring a clarity and things seem so simple

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    Re: Negative rep - is it useful?

    Quote Originally Posted by woodface View Post
    If your really not that bothered about reps then why post in a thread about reps?
    I think something's wrong with the forum software. It seems to be saying that Woodface posted this, but there's surely no way he of all people would need to ask a question like that?

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    Re: Negative rep - is it useful?

    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    akin to the warblings of an emaciated chicken
    this thread with woodfaces posts does thicken
    ^thread^forum^

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    Re: Negative rep - is it useful?

    Quote Originally Posted by Lory View Post
    I think you might be inviting trouble, with an offer like that!
    inviting me........ im a nice girl i am

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    Re: Negative rep - is it useful?

    Quote Originally Posted by Caro View Post
    I've been thinking of neg-repping others for comments I find very silly, but I am 'afraid' (well may be not really ) that their said silliness would lead them to neg-rep me back, and [snips bit not relevant to me]. Plus they complain so much about it it must really upset them and although I do find them silly, I don't feel the need to upset them.


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    Re: Negative rep - is it useful?

    Quote Originally Posted by woodface View Post
    If your really not that bothered about reps then why post in a thread about reps?
    Quote Originally Posted by straycat264 View Post
    I think something's wrong with the forum software. It seems to be saying that Woodface posted this, but there's surely no way he of all people would need to ask a question like that?
    Oh. Come on. He's only posted 38 times in this thread about reps ( way more than twice as many times as the next highest poster (15)). Having told us that he's not bothered about himself already....

    I mentioned something about hypocrisy in another thread today too!
    Last edited by TheTramp; 15th-December-2006 at 03:39 PM.

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    Re: Negative rep - is it useful?

    Sorry Trampy, but surely you are mistaken. After all, why wood [sic, leaving that typo] someone who doesn't care post a poll about whether you take rep seriously?

    EDIT: Hang on, that doesn't make sense, even to me. Oh hell, haven't got time to work that one out, I'll go and work on my next lame trying-to-be-a-smartarse comeback

    Talk amongst yourselves...
    Last edited by LMC; 15th-December-2006 at 03:38 PM. Reason: :P @ me

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    Re: Negative rep - is it useful?

    Quote Originally Posted by TheTramp View Post
    Oh. Come on. He's only posted 38 times in this thread about reps ( way more than twice as many times as the next highest poster (30)). Having told us that he's not bothered about himself already....

    I mentioned something about hypocrisy in another thread today too!
    Im honored that you have taken the time out to count the posts I have made Trampy. Make that 39.

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