Bring Back Rep Points

[tacomax]

Anyone not present at SBR during early 2006 never experienced the joy which was rep points. Rep points were a system where you could click on a button and give another poster some rep points - alternatively you could click another button to take them away from a poster. Although it took them longer than a retarded chimp to figure it out, some people eventually discovered that collusion between e-friends could lead to them accomplishing high amount of rep pooints; similarly, block voting could give posters whey didn't like a negative level of points.

Sounds boring, but this created near-anarchy at the forum for a few weeks. Some people openly wept when they kept getting negative points:

http://forum.sbrforum.com/private-zone/6064-how-do-rep-points-work-again-serious-questoion.html

http://forum.sbrforum.com/private-zone/6128-rep-points-again-hate-keep-beating-dead-horse.html

http://forum.sbrforum.com/private-zone/6266-dave-since-you-keep-voting-against-me-how-do-these-points-work.html

http://forum.sbrforum.com/private-zone/6567-not-i-care-anymore-but-dave-just-nailed-me-8-negs-row.html

Some people valued rep points over everything in their life and threatened to leave the forum if rep points weren't brought back.

http://forum.sbrforum.com/private-zone/6417-taco-threatened-me.html

http://forum.sbrforum.com/site-suggestions/7839-what-happened-rep-points.html

http://forum.sbrforum.com/private-zone/5481-rep-points-fixed.html

http://forum.sbrforum.com/private-zone/7844-should-imgv94-continue-post-here.html

So for the high level of comedy value, can we have them back, if only for a short period as an Xmas/New Year present? I know that if the majority speak then SBR will listen.

[RogueScholar]

We already have enough chaos on here, I voted no. This is just a way for people to mess with each other, and they don't even have to be witty about it in a post. Let's encourage people to be better posters, not better clickers of silly buttons to annoy people.

[Chi_archie]

let's do it

[Bread]

LOL...Taco you bring the pain. You are good at what you do. Exposing the whiny babies from back in the day.

PS...The rep system is retarded. But I realize that wasn't the point of this post

[Chi_archie]

oh wow...raiders is very whiny eh

[tacomax]

Bread/Robyn - please treat my polls as you would treat official SBR contests; only one vote per household, please.

[Bread]

Only if the rule applies to the GM's also.

[tacomax]

This is ironic.

http://forum.sbrforum.com/players-talk/3960-reputation-points.html#post39474

What the hell does reputation points have to do with anything? This reminds me of the RX where they start a thread every other day on the top five posters aka the top 5 suckups. Do I get a little star next to my name if I'm good. I hope that you at least create a new forum called the dungeon for these childish ratings.

[tacomax]

Raiders into positive territory with his rep points! So he starts a new thread about it!

http://forum.sbrforum.com/private-zone/5675-mudcat-im-green.html

Surreal last post by imgv, though:

http://forum.sbrforum.com/private-zone/6297-dave-made-me-laugh-today.html

[Bread]

Brutal.

OK off to lose our life savings now. But don't tell Raiders and DON'T TELL ROBYN!!

[Bread]

My favorite Raiders quote:

I'm not a violent guy at all but I'd sure love for you to call me a scammer to my face and make some retarded jokes. I'll tell you what, I'll make the trip you piece of shit. Where are you at? At least be man enough to say face to face what you say over the Internet.

OMG SO SCAWY!! hahahahahahha!!! What a riot.

I, for one, am glad this guy is back. I feel my luck changing.

[Richkas]

some of you guys are tools

rep points lol

grow the phuck up

Taco, wash your hair

[Bread]

RICHIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!i!!!!!

[bigboydan]

Not the rep points mess again.

[Mudcat]

People who didn't live through it can't quite imagine. Those links are only a taste.

In a way, it is surprising SBR doesn't do it. There seems to be a general support of drama-for-drama's sake around here.

It doesn't get more drama-for-drama's sake than rep points.

But I have to vote no. I understand the vote of, Yes - For The Comedy, but I can't do it. I can't. I don't believe I am without a sense of humor but mine doesn't work that way.

It was godawful.

And it was the destruction of innocence. I knew we had some basically distasteful, scammish types around - but that's when I learned there are bona fide psychos among us.

[Richkas]

RICHIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!i!!!!!

BREEEAAAAADDDDD!!!!!

Is that your son in your avatar Bread?

[Bread]

Richie be nice.

[Richkas]

Richie be nice.

[Meestermike]

on 2nd thought

[raiders72002]

Funny stuff- I love how taco picks and chooses my posts to taint the meaning.............Many were tongue in cheek or opposite meaning type of stuff.

For those that haven't been around. Taco has a man crush on me. He even saves my pictures. carry on

[raiders72002]

This was my favorite. Dozer gave me pos reps for jumping on SBR

I liked Dozer's rating that he gave me.

I started that why does SBR always jump the gun without doing any research thread.

Dozer writes "great stuff" but gave me a positive rating. That had me laughing.

[tacomax]

Funny stuff- I love how taco picks and chooses my posts to taint the meaning.............Many were tongue in cheek or opposite meaning type of stuff.

Ah, I get it now. So post after post whining about the rep points system was actually your post modernist humor taking a sideways snipe at the very fabric at today's society? Very sharp, raiders, you certainly had me fooled - I thought they were the ramblings equivalent to a child who couldn't find his security blanket.

Maybe you can further explain something. You know those trash books that you were paid to promote? You know - ones like BetOnSports, PlayTheScore and RichCoastSports to name but a few - that collapsed like a house of cards ripping off all the players you sent their way. Were whose shill posts tongue in cheek or opposite meaning type of stuff as well?

[pavyracer]

Does raiders have a single friend here?

[tacomax]

Robyn and Bread are big fans. It might not seem that way but their posts are tongue in cheek or opposite meaning type of stuff.

[Bread]

God Bless

[Robyn]

Robyn and Bread are big fans. It might not seem that way but their posts are tongue in cheek or opposite meaning type of stuff.

Hmmm....good point. Maybe you are right, Taco.

[tacomax]

Hmmm....good point. Maybe you are right, Taco.

Was that tongue in cheek or opposite meaning type of stuff? You see, it's real easy to get them mixed up! Raiders was right!

[Mudcat]

Raiders was one of a few guys who were serious as a heart attack about reputation points. You could practically feel the forum vibrating with his blood pressure fluctuations when he shot off to a huge minus right off the kicker.

Newer guys reading this thread may think taco was kidding when he referred to guys scamming the system. No. 100% true. People were devoting personal time and effort trying to artificially manipulate those dopey numbers.

My favorite Raiders memory was the little messages he would send along with the minuses he would zap me with. That was an eye opener. Like I would make some kind of common-knowledge comment on the forum about a crap book he was shilling for. Like I might say something like, " Bet Royal has been known to slow-pay."

At the time, it was about as uncontroversial a thing as you could say. There was no element of opinion involved. It would be on a par with saying something like, "The Detroit Lions have had some poor seasons."

So he'd zap me with a minus and there was room for a few words explanation and he'd say something like, YOU CAN'T HELP BUT LIE!!!

It was fukked up. Nobody in the universe except him and me was ever going to see it. So it wasn't like there was a chance of tricking a few gullible newbies. But between the shilling and the rep points, neither of which was going well, he would get so frothing-at-the-mouth messed up, he would lose track of the fact that his shilling was a calculated con and he would make the leap to actually believing himself.

Strange to see.

[Robyn]

I do not have a sarcastic bone in my body, you sonofabitch.

[raiders72002]

Funny stuff. I have NEVER given Mudcat negative rep points. Only gave out rep points when someone PMed me to give them some positive points

Bring back those rep points. Robyn would do anything for em.

taco- you're too respected for me to disagree with you.

I'm known as Mr. Congeniality on most boards.

[slacker00]

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Nix 'em.

It's a nice system to have but it's abused on this forum. People forming little jerk circles to bump up each others rep count and downgrade other posters, people using ghost accounts to do the same. Makes the actual ratings here pretty irrelevant.

Originally tacomax was one of the biggest supporters of the reputation points system before the regulars formed a coalition and voted him down into the red. Do we really want to go through all of that again?

[raiders72002]

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Originally tacomax was one of the biggest supporters of the reputation points system before the regulars formed a coalition and voted him down into the red. Do we really want to go through all of that again?

It was funny the 180 that taco did after he went in the red.

[HAPPY BOY]

Damn Taco fvcked your shiit up !!!!! i want the points back along with IMGV94 you could cut the tension with a knife back during those days. I think there were ghosts created just to credit points. What a joke. lmfao

[HAPPY BOY]

go dolphins

[raiders72002]

How far would Robyn go for rep points?