3.8 Feature Questions

Selling my body parts8( the hell are you taking a dig at me for:lew:

ld like to be able to change my user name color, the staff can get some kind of symbol if it becomes a problem deciphering who is who?

Ringo:amg:
 
I wasn't making a dig, I was just using you as an example. (You body selling bastard. :ahmed:)

Not to stray off topic, username changes on the shop would be awesome. However, there would have to, and I do mean HAVE TO, be a time limit on them. Some people would rack up enough points to change it everyday. :hmph:
 
Well then, I demand a Ringo tab, where we can sit around all day and talk about how awesome I am away from the plebs in the normal SB. :mokken:

Fucking staff gets to have all the fun when they justify it as "helping them moderate". I'm still calling shenanigans... and double standards. :ahmed:

(Just in case anyone is unable to see the sarcasm in this pos-)

Can we get some sarcasm tags up in here? Like [sarcasm]Jesse can kiss my ass[/sarcasm]? It would help during those times when people can't realize that something is a joke. (Like this entire post, save for the sarcasm tags part. We need those like a fat kid needs cake.)
 
Stevie Nicks said:
I think ACF had something similar where you could buy "plushies" that would go on your profile if you bought them? Staff member plushies, FF Character plushies, Notable member plushies... etc. That might be funky.

Although, we'd probably have to get someone to design them? :hmmm:
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Depending on who all we can get to collab with, I'd be down with making plushies with people. I used to make sprites for sprite comicers a while ago so I've got experience with it, I'd just need someone else to probably help with the shading and depth.
 
GalaxyFlare said:
Whats with massive boost in User Stats from giving REP+?
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Which imo should be replaced by thanks system entirely, the rep system has absolutely no effect anymore other than to be abused to try and boost rep and repping people for pointless reasons and with this whole activity system in place (which is a good system btw) it's only set to be abused more. I've seen peoples' rep boosted a good 20/30k in 15 minutes or so for absolutely nothing.


DragonByte Tech said:
Username changes are something we may add to the shop, limitations etc would be discussed by the staff =)
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Which, on this note, it should be discussed exactly why certain members have to wait longer than other members and why some members have to wait double the time of staff to change their name. Last time I checked it's more important to know who staff is rather than who members are, nor does it actually matter what the username of normal members are.
 
If we do adopt the "thanks system", we should by all means get rid of the rep system entirely. Not only does it create a false sense of elitism, it's, like Ryan said, abused to hell and back. Thanks for bring it up, Ryan. It was the last thing on my mind. However, it's a damned good issue, and a damned good point.
 
Mercurial said:
Which imo should be replaced by thanks system entirely, the rep system has absolutely no effect anymore other than to be abused to try and boost rep and repping people for pointless reasons and with this whole activity system in place (which is a good system btw) it's only set to be abused more. I've seen peoples' rep boosted a good 20/30k in 15 minutes or so for absolutely nothing.
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Actually to be technical, the Thanks system could easily be abused to a greater degree than Rep. Mostly because you don't need to pass around Rep to other people before Repping the same person again. There's no limit to it and you can continually rep the same person for every single post they make.

Also, the Thanks system doesn't have the option for leaving comments, which is one of the greatest charms of Rep.

Which, on this note, it should be discussed exactly why certain members have to wait longer than other members and why some members have to wait double the time of staff to change their name. Last time I checked it's more important to know who staff is rather than who members are, nor does it actually matter what the username of normal members are.
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I think that if we get an AKA field in the postbit, rather than having to hover the curser over a name (which is apparently void for Staff), this issue can be abolished entirely. If people can keep up with it, there's no reason why we can't decrease the amount of time inbetween name changes.
 
Then how about we get rid of rep, and not have the thanks system at all? Rep is abused like a southern wife in a bad relationship with a redneck, and if what you say about the thanks system is true, it would only be worse.
 
I'm greedy, so I suggest we have both. :awesome:

There's no harm in having both, or one or the other. I'm simply saying that to argue that one would be abused over the other, when in fact it'd be reversed, is moot.
 
However, it isn't like Ryan knew that about the thanks system, is it? So, basically it comes down to, we have one system with is currently abused, and one system we're probably going to implement that will be abused even more. Why have either? You can't abuse what isn't there.
 
But why get rid of something that brings joy to the masses with the delightful comments? Rep isn't hurting anyone.
 
Channadian Maple said:
Actually to be technical, the Thanks system could easily be abused to a greater degree than Rep. Mostly because you don't need to pass around Rep to other people before Repping the same person again. There's no limit to it and you can continually rep the same person for every single post they make.

Also, the Thanks system doesn't have the option for leaving comments, which is one of the greatest charms of Rep.
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No, because every thanks system I have seen is public, EVERYONE can see when someone is thanked and who by so it's quite clear when the thanks is genuine or when it's abused/not serious and/or daft. I have repped people before for pretty pointless reasons and people have had it done it to me as well, every man and his dog knows rep, to put it as Ringo said, "is abused to hell and back" but people refuse to admit it because no one can prove it because it's private and high rep automatically means popularity/elitism when the fact is you can have done less than someone with 0 rep.

If people want comments then PM/usernote/visitor message, or even better, tell them in the actual thread. Hell, why not put everyones' rep down to 0 and keep it there and they can keep the comments without any rep given.

All it's doing is segregating the older or more "popular" members (I use the term very loosely) to the new or "unpopular" members which is why I asked about having mine disabled before we even upgraded.
 
1) To troll
2) The same reason you would add something on that would annoy the masses.
3) To stop people from abusing something.
4) Because it's obsolete
5) Because it annoys the masses
6) Because those who have rep and love it, think they're more important by default
7) those that don't have rep and love it, think it's some glorious godly super power. (This just in: It isn't)
8) Most of the people that have it, don't care for it.
9) Most that don't have it, don't care for it.
10) It's being abused. (see 3)
11) It's a popularity contest
12) And a giant circle jerk among friends
13) Because I have an ulterior motive.

I could provide some more, if you'd like.

EDIT: Thanks to Ryan, I no longer have to.
 
I have a question for both of you. Is it all just because of a number? Is that what it boils down to? Considering the Thanks System doesn't have the 'number of thanks' technically (unless you go in the Top 5 Stats, then it'll show you the top 5 thanked People but that's all), is that what this amounts to?

I heavily favour Rep over Thanks because of the comment feature, however I think the forum would be fun to have both. One doesn't necessarily have to replace the other, nor do they both need to be abolished.

Commenting on a post worth repping is not always doable in certain supr srs threads.

I know I'm being fairly redundant here, but I just don't understand 'why' other than the word abuse keeps being thrown around, when practically anything and everything on FFF could technically be abused. The sb's abused, should we take that away too? No, that'd be dumb.
 
I'm couldn't care less about how much rep people have, it's the reason I asked how it was possible to disable my own. But the fact is, it was once a useful feature that has become pointless and redundant and that creates nothing more than a false sense of elitism and popularity. A number of people who have been here for some time have said "person a has x amount of rep" several times. People don't *need* rep to comment on someone elses' post.
 
No one said anything about a number, what was said by myself (can't say the same for Ryan), are my reasons for wanting it gone. If you can't take that as the basic argument underlining my points, I don't know what to tell you.

Not to be offensive, but the entire thing is redundant. Explain how the SB is abused, explain how it is abused in the same fashion as rep is, and how the thanks system, by your definition, will be.

In fact, while you're at it, explain how anything else on the forum is abused in any fashion similar to rep is now. Perhaps maybe then I can give your argument some validity.
 
Just colour me confused as to how Rep could have ever been useful other than a simple "Haha, x was funny and for y reason". It's still the same nowadays. There is a limit as to how abusive it can be, by limiting an making sure you pass rep around to other people before repping people again. So I fail to see how it's abused if they've implemented measures to make sure it's not.

Furthermore, the majority of the forum are at a stable, averaged number of rep. The people who have a significantly higher amount, are usually the GFxers who are either making sets or winning SOTW's.. where Rep is rewarded.

And further beyond THAT who cares who has how much rep? I think it says more about you as an individual if you let rep, or rather, how much rep so and so has, bother you.
 
Ill say my piece about this here. Rep was fine when the numbers were only 2 digits and the max was 10. The barrier broke(think it was Aztec who found out you can breach 10) then rep started going nuts. Yes and I mean absolutely nuts. I still remember thinking I was awesome for having a rep of 8 :lew:. Also I agree 100% with Ryan. I care only for comments nowadays. Rep is just an excuse now. People abuse it and I mean far too much. While I do think a Thanks feature would be nice I don't think it all that necessary. We do have mentions.. so that is like saying thanks... sort of.
 
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While it doesn't bother me, I do want it gone, for it does bother others. (One of the reasons) The two aren't mutually exclusive. As Ryan, and I have both said, it's completely useless, and redundant at this point. Why have it at all?
 
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