OMG, I got a negative vote! What for?

[Sethos]

I honestly dont like this. some of the MVC's are pricks. honestly mean it, and not meaning to be rude.

Can you do anything with rep points anyways? i never look at these.

Well it's gone now, so no reason to fret.

[Andre S. Veteran]

Stackoverflow has quite an effective reputation system. Positive and negative votes are recorded separately for each question (so that they do not strictly cancel each other). Positive votes count more than negative votes for reputation; however for an individual question they have the same weight (1). Badges of various grades (bronze, silver and gold) are awarded for significant contributions.

I think Neowin could draw some useful ideas from it.

[Richard Hammond]

Uh they removed the rep system altogether now?

Thats a bit silly, people complained about how so called MVCs shouldnt get the opportunity and now the rep system has been removed for everyone. Bit childish no?

[Sethos]

im not gonna read all these pages, so can you sum it up please? they did away with it?

Also what good are rep points for anyways? nothing right?

Too many complaints, too much abuse with the reputation system and it was pretty useless as Neowin wanted to use it as a system to ensure quality posts, which failed.

So they disabled it.

[Richard Hammond]

What a joke. Silly heavyhanded tactics like this is the reason why people hate the staff so much.

[Sethos]

all that happened in less than one day? :o

Think Neobond just got fed up and took drastic measures but yes, they work fast over at the staff office :laugh:

[Steven P. Administrators]

What a joke. Silly heavyhanded tactics like this is the reason why people hate the staff so much.

:hug_guy:

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

What a joke. Silly heavyhanded tactics like this is the reason why people hate the staff so much.

What should the staff have done - let the trolls abuse the system even more?

Disabling it until a better solution to reward helpful posts is found is the best compromise.

[Cupcakes]

Well it's gone now, so no reason to fret.

Aha and here I was looking around to figure out if rep had broke for me :). Danke Sethos! :D

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@Neobond

The Neowin community likes the staff. Don't let some of the negative posts get to you guys. Keep up the good work!

/lurker and member for 5 years

[Steven P. Administrators]

@Neobond

The Neowin community likes the staff. Don't let some of the negative posts get to you guys. Keep up the good work!

/lurker and member for 5 years

Thanks (Y)

[PixilEyes]

Maybe we should use Blizzards Real Id. :D

J/K

[e-berlin.org]

Come together!

Disable voting, ban haters.

[Singh400]

Can we just lock this thread please, and keep the discussion in the other thread?

[Steven P. Administrators]

Can we just lock this thread please, and keep the discussion in the other thread?

Alright