SkyHog
Touchdown! Greaser!
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- Feb 23, 2005
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Everything Offends Me
Its been about 8 years, IIRC, since we had reputation. It was a feature ahead of its time - these days, most places allow you to +1 comments, or "like" them, or "share" them, whatever. We had the same functionality in the reputation system where we could vote up/down posts, at least a few years before it became popular.
Now we are behind the times...our closest thing to "state of the art" on this site is a tag cloud feature that is rarely used, and fell out of internet grace at the turn of the decade anyway in favor of more robust search options instead.
I think we need to get reputation back, not because it hurt to lose, but because we need it back. One "modification" of the reputation system that seems to work very well is the "Thanks/Groan" option available at another forum I use. It keeps you from trolling for reputation, but also allows people to give kudos for a thoughtful post or a quick "ugh" when someone says/does something dumb.
An example of it in use:
http://thelobolair.com/forum/showthread.php?t=50299
Now we are behind the times...our closest thing to "state of the art" on this site is a tag cloud feature that is rarely used, and fell out of internet grace at the turn of the decade anyway in favor of more robust search options instead.
I think we need to get reputation back, not because it hurt to lose, but because we need it back. One "modification" of the reputation system that seems to work very well is the "Thanks/Groan" option available at another forum I use. It keeps you from trolling for reputation, but also allows people to give kudos for a thoughtful post or a quick "ugh" when someone says/does something dumb.
An example of it in use:
http://thelobolair.com/forum/showthread.php?t=50299