... open to posting publically?
... open to posting with anonymity?
... private between the sender and receiver?
... I don't know, but do I get rep for clicking here?
While I have no real problem with people posting rep comments which do not identify the person who sent the rep, sometimes rep comments have personal messages that we might not like spread across the forum.
What do other people think?
Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story
That's what I've done, and I see other people doing it too. Sorry Franck, can't see why you think they are fair game to be made public when PMs aren't. They serve much the same function.
Having said that, I don't think I've said anything in a rep comment that I would object to being published on the forum, but it would be a bit weird since I had assumed that comment would remain private. If rep comments are to considered fair game for publication, and the majority feel that they have an expectation of privacy, it needs to be advertised to all existing members and new members somehow.
Really not fussed. I have no secrets.
Stray
None that I care to share online, anyway
As long as everyone knows whether their comment will be private or public, I don't see why there would be a problem. However, if you wanted to change the system from private to public, I think it would be unfair and unwise to make all past comments public.
No they dont - Private messages are exactly that - Mesages that are sent Privately. Rep comments are short comments relating to a specific public post.
The rule of thumb for EITHER should be; don't post anything to anyone you dont know well if you dont want it to become public.
For PMs, because they are labelled as Private, its simply rude to repeat them publically but if someone feels they are way out of order they surely will try to share them with others. Franck has already said he will stop this when it happens, as he has in the past.
Rep Comments are throw away comments and similar to shouting at someone in a room in response to something they said - who cares if that is overheard?
Just looking down my received rep comments - I don't think any of them would actually make sense to someone else without context - with context they're basically "I liked your post enough to take the time to rep you"
Be Well,
Christopher
Sorry Scathe. I tend to disagree here....
They aren't similar to shouting in a room. They are made privately, with only the person that they are made to (and the moderators) being able to see them. There is a 'privacy by implication' thing going on here. When you send rep, you make the decision to send something to the person in a private way. If you post a reply, that would be anagalous to the 'shouting across a room' idea.
They may be made in response to a specific public post, but done privately. By your reasoning, if I sent a PM in response to a specific public post, then the contents of the PM should be allowed to be made public?
More or less what I was gonig to say in response! If rep comments were to be shared, they would already be in the public domain, for example by appearing on the persons profile. Someone actually has to make the effort to copy and paste them.
The public aspect is when someone sends rep, then posts on the relevant thread "have some rep for that excellent observation old thing" or some such sycophantic nonsense...
(me too!)
I think any 1-to-1 communications, by definition, should be assumed to be private communications by default.
On the other hand, any e-communication is stored forever and can be used against you. As many City employees have found recently (anyone remember Claire Swires?)
I had a quick squint at my rep messages - and none in either direction seem to be terribly incriminating.
However, I had thought that they were reasonably private. If I had thought about I might figure that moderators could if necessary see them , I don't think that often ( particularly at work - where most of my posting is from), and even if I do, I don't think they would be terribly interesting to anyone apart from the recipient or me.
I suppose I will just reach my PM limit more quickly if I want definite privacy.
Cheers Whitetiger
None of my rep messages either given or received are so private that they need hidden.
however, I don't see any reason why they should be made public. If someone makes a great post for which I feel public admiration should be given I'll rep them in private and then in the thread say something like "Great post.. rep on it's way" or the ilk
besides. i got reps recently from some people who said
"Friends are not scared to tell you difficult truths.. even if it means risking the friendship." Thank u! I had this prob not long ago - but it wasnt not seen the same by my friend! Glad im not alone on it!"
and
"You come over pretty lovable on the forum. NB I'm too old for you!!! x"
now.. the people that wrote those probably didn't want to be made public (and I removed their names to ensure they were before I copied those here)
so my vote.. keep them private.
Tend to agree with ducasi. Rep comments are just a subset of the Forum's 121 communication mechanisms, along with PMs and other stuff (about 6 other methods - Skype, MSN etc?). Having had a neg rep comment posted publically (with my name attached at the time IIRC - it's been edited out since), I veer towards treating them in the same way as PMs.
However we might lose some potentially great "Toys out the pram" moments from our most precious Forumites. I just vote for consistency.
I vote for "Toys out the pram"
oooh thats too much of a stretch. Whilst I said comments do not need to be kept private because they are specific to a post it doesnt follow that Private messages should be anything other than private.
Anyway, ive changed my mind and agree with you all. Especially considering the rep I just sent to StuartM - wouldnt want THAT public
What about having an option to make the rep private or public? You could have them private as a default but occasionally it might be nice to publicise it..
The Aussie forum has recently introduced a bank where you can buy "gifts" and give them to people. The gifts then show up as little icons on the person's profile (the bit that appears next to the posts).. and if you scroll over them you can read the message that came with it.
The giver can choose whether to make the gifts private or public though Something like that might work for rep comments...
Can we just have a text based forum then?
9000 threads and we are deciding now
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