Stick to business ( as this is a business forum ) and leave the other posts for your other social type forums you may be a part of. Simple as that. Just because you don't understand the system, doesn't mean it's broken. I have a lot of green on these forums, but I assure you that in real life I have a big red box over my head. How do I get the green? I only reply when I have something helpful to say and I stay out of the political section, easy as that.
That's an ingenious methodology. I always believed it was 10 infractions. Thats the way we always referred it, isn't it? May be there should be some 0 point infracs too for smaller mistakes, that will serve as a friendly reminder and not as the route to ban.
I went in that political section for my first and last time today. I left and came back 5 hours later and they were arguing over a different topic! I am guilty of posting stuff which is what some would call not very useful, I'm just a social butterfly! I think though there needs to be some sorting of meeting ground in between mods and users, rather than mods saying deal with it and users saying its not fair, and that's as far as it really gets, I haven't seen many of these threads resolved happily by both parties You are the victim of misinformation (check out the SEO section, loads of it!). I think there are "warnings", one the screenshot in the FAQ section there is an orange one which has 0 points. I've never gotten one of those though, just a red one. Maybe they have them, maybe they don't. A mod will have to tell you that!
I had directed that at ahkip but anyway... No, you can't. It would be impossible for you to track everything. Yeah I added it to my sig as a kind of measure so to speak, but it's gone now. I found the red rep I got funny aswell, if only they wrote there name...
I got another one just now as well. Just enjoy it rochow. And call the "repper" whatever you want in public. Imagine him, grinding his teeth helplessly look at your post, knowing he can't reply to you. Oooh I love it
Every green rep they leave there name. *Nearly* every red rep no-one leaves it I would rather they had the balls to just say who they are, it's alot tougher than hiding behind the safety of an anonymous rep... even though I lost 5 points, so it was someone with a hefty amount of rep. Oh well, I'll live EDIT: Sweet, another two to add to my collection!
I tend to agree with the initial poster about "infractions" - it just isn't a welcoming title. There are thousands of other forums (including several other internet marketplace forums) that manage to generate on-topic, business based discussion without such a (seemingly) harsh system. Objectively, receiving an infraction isn't a big deal, but it "feels" worse because the word itself is very daunting and serious. The bigger issue I have though is with what seems to be a prevalent attitude with many posters in the "suggestions and feedback" forum that all of the threads here are pointless or stupid. I can see how it may seem like that to those who have been here awhile, but for the most part if someone takes the time to make a thread in here it will be because they genuinely feel that something that is not right occurred to them (with the exception of the why can't I post in buy sell trade immediately threads - those do suck). Unfortunately, most of these posts are met with rude and unhelpful comments. If you don't like these threads then don't come to the suggestions and feedback section, or if DP wants to simply discourage these threads altogether, then they need to remove the section. I mean, obviously that is the intended use of this section. The final point I will make has to do with the excellent post I've quoted. When you make a post in here an (I'm willing to bet) small group of users give anonymous red rep. In an earlier thread I asked a question trying to clarify the rules about adding new information to a thread, and received anonymous red rep for the lovely reason of "how bout some red" Many posters in this thread have received red rep,and I'm sure I'll receive plenty more of it for making this post. The bottom line is that the purpose of the rep system is to inform DP users of whether an individual is a quality member of the forum. Adding negative rep for no reason subverts that purpose. Please, instead of giving me red rep, PM me or post in the thread so we can have an intelligent discussion about this