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Arash
Posts: 4495
Joined: Aug. 9 2006
From: Iran (living in Germany)
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RE: The Forum (in reply to Exitao)
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ORIGINAL: Exitao All very good and well, but what specifically did I do to earn a negative score? I wanted to defend the rating system, I think it's appropriate that a newcomer should see a reply by, say Ricardo and see a high score or a post by a trouble maker and see a low score. All I've done was tell people to stop arguing or stop attacking other people. Wow. Whatever. So now, I agree with whoever it was that said we should disable the ratings. It can clearly be done, as ratings don't work in Luthier or or OT. Scores should be reset to zero, and people like Ricardo should all get custom titles (as opposed to "fellow") to reflect on the fact that they are people worht listening to. P.D. I'm just using Ricardo as an example, especially as he has an obscenely high score. I'm not nominating him for mayor or VP or asking him out on a date... Dont take this score thing too seriously. Those of us who are long enough here (which are 90%), know that (with few exceptions) the score doesnt say anything about the person behind that score. I mean Anders for instance should have more than 4 and i should have less than 40. In fact few weeks ago i had only 26 and now all of a sudden i have 40 without contributing anything special like a tab or upload something or answering a difficult question or anything special to the foro (however, thanks, dont take them away please ).
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Date Jan. 20 2009 12:25:42
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Ron.M
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Joined: Jul. 7 2003
From: Scotland
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RE: The Forum (in reply to Exitao)
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The forum is running on custom modified off-the-shelf software. A lot of it is at script level and not simply "tick the box" options like the programs we have running on our PCs. As every programmer knows, sometimes these "minor" changes can have repercussions elsewhere causing glitches and hang-ups and odd operation and end up being a gread deal more work than originally thought. Neither Henry nor myself are software engineers, and at this moment in time, I am not going to be the one to ask Simon. OK, if everybody is happy with trying the new system for a while, I'll recap.... Only two simple rules to remember. 1: If during an exchange, you feel that someone is being personally abusive towards you, don't reply in anger but contact me and Henry directly by PM. Don't use the "Report Abuse" button. 2: Don't intervene and dish out "justice" in angry language on someone elses behalf. It doesn't help and can lead to a flame war. "Personal abuse" means just that. .. things like insults, intimidation, belittling, foul language directed to be hurtful etc etc NOT someone saying he thinks your favourite artist is crap, or your favourite CD or TV program. Maybe not the best example, but you know what I mean here. My aim is to keep the Forum as lively and dynamic as usual, with it's heated debates, jokes and banter, but without anybody getting personally hurt. Obviously use common sense. I mean if after an hour or so of cooling down, somebody wants to get back on the Forum and fully retract a statement and offer a sincere apology explaining that they were a bit grumpy and riled and went over the score... Then that is to be welcomed IMO. However if folk want to find ways "around" the system then we'll just be back to square one. cheers, Ron
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Date Jan. 21 2009 0:32:05
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