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As discussed here, we've today started trialling a new post rate system.

Previously members could 'Like' a post. Now, they can 'Like' or 'Dislike' ('KOF') a post. Those who have been posting for a while will remember it being similar to the rep system, but without the ability to comment.

The developers reckon it;

  • Increases daily posts.
  • Improves signal to noise ratio; less short/unnecessary posts
  • Improves quality of posts (posters want to avoid negative ratings)
  • Makes lurkers useful for something and gives them a means of interaction
And, it can help self moderate - there's a setting that allows 'x' amount of dislikes to place a post in a moderation queue.

We'll be tweaking the system over the next week or two to see if it can work. Be mindful that if we notice people taking the piss with it (targeting members etc) then we'll revoke access and it'll be a mark in the against category for the feature...
 
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“I do not like the killers, and the killing bravely and well crap. I do not like the bully boys, the Teddy Roosevelt’s, the Hemingways, the Ruarks. They are merely slightly more sophisticated versions of the New Jersey file clerks who swarm into the Adirondacks in the fall, in red cap, beard stubble and taut hero’s grin, talking out of the side of their mouths, exuding fumes of bourbon, come to slay the ferocious white-tailed deer. It is the search for balls. A man should have one chance to bring something down. He should have his shot at something, a shining running something, and see it come a-tumbling down, all mucus and steaming blood stench and gouted excrement, the eyes going dull during the final muscle spasms. And if he is, in all parts and purposes, a man, he will file that away as a part of his process of growth and life and eventual death. And if he is perpetually, hopelessly a boy, he will lust to go do it again, with a bigger beast.”
 
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Donald Twain said:
Keep ya chin up Ash!
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I will just say this generally.

When a like dislike (or rep system) is abused for the novelty of it and therefore render the dislike (or neg) option a joke then it makes the whole thing pointless waste of time to even use it as anything other than the opposite of what it is meant for.

so keep negging me @Ernie you smart arse. Because all you are achieving is by sticking my name at the top of a member list to remind you of me long after i stop posting. Quite the opposite of the intended effect eh? Why bother giving me any sort of mention because i sure as hell can't be arsed posting any more.
 
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Ashtonian said:
I will just say this generally.

When a like dislike (or rep system) is abused for the novelty of it and therefore render the dislike (or neg) option a joke then it makes the whole thing pointless waste of time to even use it as anything other than the opposite of what it is meant for.

so keep negging me @Ernie you smart arse. Because all you are achieving is by sticking my name at the top of a member list to remind you of me long after i stop posting. Quite the opposite of the intended effect eh? Why bother giving me any sort of mention because i sure as hell can't be arsed posting any more.
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Ashtonian said:
I will just say this generally.

When a like dislike (or rep system) is abused for the novelty of it and therefore render the dislike (or neg) option a joke then it makes the whole thing pointless waste of time to even use it as anything other than the opposite of what it is meant for.

so keep negging me @Ernie you smart arse. Because all you are achieving is by sticking my name at the top of a member list to remind you of me long after i stop posting. Quite the opposite of the intended effect eh? Why bother giving me any sort of mention because i sure as hell can't be arsed posting any more.
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It's only numbers mate.

@Sapie88 and @tommye are right up there and so is @Prevenger17 and you don't see them whinging about it.
 
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Ashtonian said:
I will just say this generally.

When a like dislike (or rep system) is abused for the novelty of it and therefore render the dislike (or neg) option a joke then it makes the whole thing pointless waste of time to even use it as anything other than the opposite of what it is meant for.

so keep negging me @Ernie you smart arse. Because all you are achieving is by sticking my name at the top of a member list to remind you of me long after i stop posting. Quite the opposite of the intended effect eh? Why bother giving me any sort of mention because i sure as hell can't be arsed posting any more.
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Get a grip Ash. It's a discussion forum on the internet. Someone pulling your pud by disliking all your posts really shouldn't get to you.

Likes are nice, it's good to know people share your viewpoint, but it's that posts that really matter, not the likes.
 
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Ashtonian said:
I will just say this generally.

When a like dislike (or rep system) is abused for the novelty of it and therefore render the dislike (or neg) option a joke then it makes the whole thing pointless waste of time to even use it as anything other than the opposite of what it is meant for.

so keep negging me @Ernie you smart arse. Because all you are achieving is by sticking my name at the top of a member list to remind you of me long after i stop posting. Quite the opposite of the intended effect eh? Why bother giving me any sort of mention because i sure as hell can't be arsed posting any more.
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Ashtonian said:
I will just say this generally.

When a like dislike (or rep system) is abused for the novelty of it and therefore render the dislike (or neg) option a joke then it makes the whole thing pointless waste of time to even use it as anything other than the opposite of what it is meant for.

so keep negging me @Ernie you smart arse. Because all you are achieving is by sticking my name at the top of a member list to remind you of me long after i stop posting. Quite the opposite of the intended effect eh? Why bother giving me any sort of mention because i sure as hell can't be arsed posting any more.
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I've been negged 160 times today, stop cry arsing and get on with it.

They're little thumbs on the internet that do no actual damage.

Behave.
 
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