Feature True Country

I bet most people around here didn't know that! I didn't for sure, but then again I have never
given someone bad rep...

I didn't say that people would have liked it.

 

I believe you, I'm not going to check that out

 

How about it doesn't even goes to another when -ve reps have abusive words? Filter in Reputation eh?

 

There is no filter in reputation and since the 2 admins (Shawn and Rob) have better things to do you can generally get away with it but when they catch you they nuke you. So is it worth a 1 year ban ?

 

Its a nice feature it should prevent spammers and liars from cheating premium members at the least.
Honestly, I don't understand the need for the users to create false profiles to complete their trades, they could be honest at least with their country of origin.

 

People are abusing the reputation system pretty much lately. I have received a few -ve just because they disagree with my opinion when they could just ignore my post. But that's not a problem for me because the +ve's got much higher points than the -ve's so I'm always moving up.

 

How is that abuse?

 

That's what I was wondering. I think that's what it's there for.

 

They are overusing the system which could potentially harm new users from participating in the BST section. The system is meant to award or point out serious mistakes, not just dropping a -ve whenever you dislike something.

 

Dude, you repeatedly describe exactly what it's for and then say it's not for that....
If they are a bad user in the forum pissing people off and giving bad advice then they probably don't care about their account so they deserve the red rep. and when I'm buying stuff in the BST I am glad that it's there to help me to decide who to deal with and not to deal with...
I think rep is perfect the way it is. You lose a point if you give negative so it discourages people (a little) from leaving negatives unless the user feels there needed or deserved. My ONLY complaint with the rep system is that it's a little icon that most people don't notice so they don't use it (I like the way it was in VB3).

 

The system automatically stops people from giving too much rep, positive or negative, in a short time. So, I think what you call "overuse" is a way to describe a rep you didn't agree with. Obviously someone thought you deserved it, since they gave it to you.

The best thing you can do with rep, if you can't learn something from it, is just ignore it.

Maybe Shawn agrees with you, but I do not see any rule that says this. I think you can give a rep for any reason your heart desires. It will always be subjective anyway, what people find worthy of +rep or -rep.

 

I don't know how to avoid such things but what I can think of is adding a ratio limit to the system, so that users can't just give like 20 negatives and 1 positive, I know it harms yourself too but users with hundreds of point don't seem to care.

 

Is this thread related to Transformers?

True Country ~> Reputation

 

Probably best to lock this thread now.

 

Thats a nice and VERY HELPFUL feature
Thanks Shawn.

 

Do you think it could sometimes be wrong? I received an email where the true country was quite surprising, and I have doubts as to whether it could be correct. Could that individual have been using some kind of ip software or something?

 

might have been using a proxy.

 

Thanks Indy, then that's probably the reason why.