Understanding the INGO "User Reputation System"

[Annie]

Originally Posted by El Cazador

New question:

Can we turn down rep points? Refuse them?

Now there's a story in there somewhere...

[El Cazador]

Originally Posted by Annie

Now there's a story in there somewhere...

So, hmmm, I'm still getting feedback on this

The only reason I asked was it seemed it might be more effective to get the point across to some than just using the "Ignore" feature, which is easily undone with people quoting, plus the ignored poster doesn't know he's being ignored (as far as I can tell, at least). There's two or three on here I just ignore without doing it formally, and having them "rep" me didn't sit all that well. I don't know I'd ever even use a "refuse rep", but for the internet, clarity keeps things moving.

I don't really care, this "reputation" stuff is new to me. I don't frequent many internet forums, and this one is the first I've run across with the reputation feature, so it took me for a while to even start to use it. I can see it makes for some camaraderie and alliances on a subject, and I'll use it as such, but it's funny when people write and tell me to not take it so seriously when they obviously are.

[SavageEagle]

Darn. I thought this was a free rep thread... Shame on me for thinkin... LOL

I do have a question though. How do you know how many rep points you are giving out and how many someone gives you? I'm just curious. One of those useless pieces of knowledge I'm trying to acquire....

[JBusch8899]

The FAQ states that one can hide one's reputation. However, when I attempted to do so, the mechanism wasn't available.

Am I missing something, or is the FAQ incorrect?

I've already PM'd this question sometime ago to one I thought that would know and respond. No dice though.

[spasmo]

That part of the FAQ is boiler plate and some of those items may not be valid. We are working on updating all stickies and FAQs but we have no idea when this will be finished as it is a large task.