That’s a very good suggestion, Bob, and at first I was nearly convinced. However, while I can see how this idea would work well in a forum dedicated to its members helping each other out, I don’t feel like it would be as effective here. Some of our very best posts come from people with relatively low post counts. Think of supernerd23, he hardly ever posts around here, but when he does he sits down and really writes something worth reading.

I understand that the system avoids rewarding a high post count, and instead rewards a high useful post count, but Greg’s score would still get swalled up by someone who writes a lot of pretty good posts. For instance, Bob Page’s first post in this topic is definitely token-worthy. He brought in a good idea. But is it more valuable than one of Greg’s full-size posts? Probably not, but Greg’s might end up with only a few more tokens than Bob’s. Well, Bob writes a lot of posts that are of some value, and his score would eventually make Greg’s look pitiful.

I think the system is too simple in its definition of what a good post is, and that any system complicated enough to discern between a valuable post and a really valuable post would be too complicated for me to want to install here.

“Yolegoman” wrote: I think that Wierdears and Banjo and Jacopo should just be labaled “Forum Trolls” under their avitar and go from there.

Actually, Weirdears’s satirical trolling is some of the funniest material on this board. Also, it’s possible for some members to float in and out of troll-hood, always dancing around that line, and labeling them as a troll wouldn’t be completely fair. Perhaps we should just put “Spammer” under Yolegoman’s avatar, since his post count is 140 higher than the next closest member. :wink

I was going to try to respond to most everyone, but Ill just plain out say that it would not work out here…

I didnt mean not work as in it couldnt be done, but not work in theory working into the community.

And kinda OT, but forum related. Isnt there a limitation to avatar sizes? It may have been when we moved over, but Ive noticed some peoples are larger

“Bob Page” wrote: Please, force points would be awesome

example : http://www.csb-digital.com/alamdv/commu … /index.php

The owner of the forum (Revmen) give tokens to people who posts on the forum. Every token worth ten points (only when you give it!) if you keep it, it worths nothing. So when a member who have tokens see a post that answer is question or see a funny post, he can give a token to the post so the writter receive +10 points

The more points, the more helpful you are, and the more respect you have

P.S it will also be cool to make a points transfer system, like when I don’t have any token left, I can transfer 1 (or more…) point to someone

Thanks!

This whole post is one big joke.
No points, no token and none of the other user rating. Just grab your cam and do something.

sorry for being such a jerk.

Sorry…..

the points could work towards the chat also…..
if given enough points…..
one would gain the ability to use the chat…….
and access other “token”
abilitys……

another strange suggestion

“RevMen” wrote: I’ve been just deleting pics out of people’s profiles that are obnoxiously large and then notifying them by PM. I think maybe I’ll just start deleting them without notification now.

i was one of those with a larger picture and that happened to me
i had tried to resize it but decided against it……
i just went ahead and dropped the agent from matrix avatar and went with the decepticon avatar…….

and i love it……
(last half deleted for certain reasons)

Proteus is by no means unique. You’d be surprised (or not, I don’t know) how many people in big business can’t string a coherent written paragraph together.

On the subject of ratings/force points/midichlorians/whatever, I still don’t really understand the need for them. If you post sensibly and constructively, people will come to respect your opinions. Hands up if you need to see a points total to decide whether hali’s worth listening to.