Forum suggestion - Reputation points - Fun/cool

Saw these on another forum. If you like a person's post you can give them positive rep, if you don't like their post you can give them negative rep. The more positive rep you get the more green dots you get under you r username (of course if you're a very bold boy, you could have red dos ). Could be a fun idea for this forum.

As far as I know it's pretty simple to enable them in the Admin control panel.

There is for and against. It might help make thngs more intersting. It might be used for acts of vindictiveness and bitchiness. On the other hand though....
I think itsprobably a good idea though. Might encourage good posting.

Why not?

If it doesn't work, just turn the feature off again.

It was used on boards.ie, they were problems but I think they were mostly due to the vastly bigger size of boards.ie, it was just too hard to keep track of it. One thing that helped was allowing people to see the usernames of whoever repped them. That got rid of the problem of random neg-repping. The problem that got it shut down was a "Post here and we give you rep for nothing" thread which ended up defeating the purpose of the system. But it should be easy to look out for threads like that here.

I am 'Off The Scale'! Is this a good or a bad thing?

There appears to be only two options currently - off the scale and on the road... tried to change Bootys by giving some good reports about him but it will not allow me to do it to him twice in a row (so to speak), even in different forums.

BTW - I will expect some good reports in return Booty..

Eventually people will move beyond one green dot and we'll see more captions like "splendid one to behold", "glorious beacon of light etc."

I'm confused.... but then I am always.... er, am,... oh yes... confused

Aha you see? Redbulljunkie started it all!!!

and people died they were so confused.

Ooooooooooooh shiny.

In a couple of characters cause I'm cool

Why is neg rep gone?

Yea wtf. kinda pointless now. Guess I'll have to resort to cutting comments.

There goes one of your past-times. I'm sure you'll survive. There's plenty of pesudo counsellors around here who can help anyway.

Oh no, it's ok you see, I too was talking to LeBaron before he died and he commended me on my tastelessness.