reputation/Rep power whats the point?

[Cencus]

Sorry for the dumb question, but is there any point to the reputation system on this board other than as a sort of a popularity contest?

[Il Medico]

It is the measuring stick revlefters use to compare their e-penises.


But otherwise, no.

[Widerstand]

You can negrep stupid posters and watch them go apeshit.

[Sasha]

It is the measuring stick revlefters use to compare their e-penises.


But otherwise, no.

this, you can disable rep in your settings, then you just get 1 grey block

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

It allows those who disagree with/do not like you to go one more than type their complaint in capitals or use expletives.

[ZeroNowhere]

Its purpose is essentially to indicate that a given poster has made quality posts in the past, and therefore may be worth turning to for advice, etc, for a newbie, as well as being more reliable. Of course, from this it undergoes a dialectical inversion to be essentially proportional to the amount of one-line posts which a a poster has made.

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

^^^In some ways you are right, but in my experience, many rep points are awarded sub-standard posts simply because they defend a certain viewpoint -- and not very well, either.

A few months back, 'Red Cat', for example, awarded them like confetti to anyone who disagreed with me, no matter how poor their posts were. The same is true more recently of 'S Artesian', 'Greymouser' and 'Freedom Hating Communist'. For such comrades, rep points are the equivalent of a "Here! Here!" or an "Up Yours Rosa!"

[Wanted Man]

I don't know if it makes you feel any better, but people basically do this to each other all the time, and it's not just you.

[ʇsıɥɔɹɐuɐ ıɯɐbıɹo]

Yeah, why do we have a rep system if we want an egalitarian society anyways?

[KC]

Because some people are more equal than others and thus deserve more rep

[Blackscare]

One day, it was decided that there were far too few one-liners and sectarian circle-jerks on this board. In order to correct this the rep system was implemented. It comes with a convenient thank you button so that you can easily show that you approve of x user comparing y tendency unfavorably to their genitalia.

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

Wanted Man:


I don't know if it makes you feel any better, but people basically do this to each other all the time, and it's not just you.

In fact, I have no feelings either way on this; I was just reporting a viewpoint -- but thanks anyway.:)

[The Grey Blur]

i never even noticed this before.

[graymouser]

I mostly use it to make sure that some other posters find what I'm putting up here worthwhile. It's nice in that regard.

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

^^^Which is why only fellow mystics give you rep points over in Philosophy.:lol:

[Il Medico]

^^^Which is why only fellow mystics give you rep points over in Philosophy.
Mystics? I assume they inhale noxious gases and fail about on the floor whilst telling the future, yes? If not I will be sorely disappointed.

[Widerstand]

Mystics? I assume they inhale noxious gases and fail about on the floor whilst telling the future, yes? If not I will be sorely disappointed.

I smoked Das Kapital yesterday and it all came clear to me: Capitalism will fall! Hallelujah!

[graymouser]

Mystics? I assume they inhale noxious gases and fail about on the floor whilst telling the future, yes? If not I will be sorely disappointed.
Mushrooms, comrade. It's all about the dialectical shrooms.

[Il Medico]

The two above posters put the left in disrepute with their Mysticism!

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

Ill Medico:


Mystics? I assume they inhale noxious gases and fail about on the floor whilst telling the future, yes? If not I will be sorely disappointed.

To be honest, I wouldn't put it past them.:lol:

[Ovi]

Yeah, why do we have a rep system if we want an egalitarian society anyways?
Thanking a post cleans up the thread from 'I agree with that' and other such one liners, I assume. The point for a score is beyond me.

[Lyev]

My e-peen brings all the boys to the yard, cos, damn-right, my dialectal analysis is better than yours
anyway, I never really saw the point in it. So, partly because I don't get enough of it, but mostly because it seems slightly superfluous - and can in fact have a negative effect where post are full of witty one-liners that beg, "rep me, notice me, please!" - I don't show my rep-power, I prefer the little grey square.

[Amphictyonis]

I've taken rep from a Nazi, a capitalist and some ass-gasket Stalinist calling for the extermination of anarchists and trots and "Red Cat" took rep from me for taking rep from Stalin's steroid taking ghost. (I think the Stalinist was a troll?):)

I think it's a good system to keep these people from "success".

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Forum_Trolling#RevLeft

Can a troll succeed? What's their definition of success? I would think if your life consists of making up fake online persona's based in psychopathy you pretty much preemptively fail. What's more weird? People wanting to change the economic system with human liberty as the goal or little zit faced pricks making fun of people who actually have the ability to see the system for what it is?

[ZeroNowhere]

Oh, hey, look, all of the posts in this thread are being repped. How incredibly post-modern.

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

Yes, and wonderwoman666 is clearly taking the p*ss.

[Il Medico]

Hmmm, I wonder if this is going to turn into one of those rep parties from way back when.

[Tablo]

Rep will be the downfall of this site.

[Widerstand]

Hmmm, I wonder if this is going to turn into one of those rep parties from way back when.

Rep Party!!!

[Amphictyonis]

Thanking a post cleans up the thread from 'I agree with that' and other such one liners, I assume. The point for a score is beyond me.

To determine who are traitors to the working class- to determine who goes to the cyber gulag. Revisionist first world scum anarchists and trots! ;)

[Widerstand]

To determine who are traitors to the working class- to determine who goes to the cyber gulag. Revisionist first world scum anarchists and trots! ;)

Yeah I mean just watch the Machete trailer he clearly is a honestworking proletarian revolutionary and the trailer clearly says "he knows to score." So yeah...just watch that :thumbup1:

[Il Medico]

As I feared.

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

We should have a vote to ban, or at least give an infaction to all those who rep this comment.

[Fawkes]

We should have a vote to ban, or at least give an infaction to all those who rep this comment.

Or we could ban you ;)

[Bright Banana Beard]

Rep this if you dislike or like repping people.

[Fawkes]

Rep this if you dislike or like repping people.

No.

[Q]

Any admin:

- Please close this thread.
- Unrep any Thanks given.
- Infract all repseekers.

Thank you.

[Fawkes]

;)

[Il Medico]

Any admin:

- Please close this thread.
- Unrep any Thanks given.
- Infract all repseekers.

Thank you.
Ooh, never been infracted before! Wonder if it will give me that exhilarating "I just did something naughty" feeling.

But admins, don't close the thread quite yet, I must run out and buy balloons and a party hat to celebrate this occasion properly.

And so there is no confusing me with an asshole making sarcastic post in a members forum thread, and thus not getting my well deserved infraction- Let me say that I am indeed seeking rep, as my pathetically needy ego demands it.

That is all, Toodles.

[Q]

Ooh, never been infracted before! Wonder if it will give me that exhilarating "I just did something naughty" feeling.

But admins, don't close the thread quite yet, I must run out and buy balloons and a party hat to celebrate this occasion properly.
Ain't gonna happen.


And so there is no confusing me with an asshole making sarcastic post in a members forum thread, and thus not getting my well deserved infraction- Let me say that I am indeed seeking rep, as my pathetically needy ego demands it.

That is all, Toodles.

It was not a sarcastic post. "Rep parties" are one of the more stupid things featured on Revleft.

If you don't mind, you may take back your Thanks.

[synthesis]

Would it be disrespectful of me to say that "infracting rep-seekers" is just as dumb as "seeking rep"?

[Sasha]

Any admin:

- Please close this thread.
- Unrep any Thanks given.
- Infract all repseekers.

Thank you.

I will not Mod as I am told.

Moved to chitchat
Try and have an repparty here peeps...

[Il Medico]

Ain't gonna happen.
Awww. :( I guess I'll just take this stuff back.....


It was not a sarcastic post. "Rep parties" are one of the more stupid things featured on Revleft. Indeed they are silly, as is playing internet hardman and 'laying down the law'. Both happened here and both I have mocked. Sarcasm my dear letter, sarcasm.


If you don't mind, you may take back your Thanks. No, you should keep it, as a keepsake to remember this special thread by.


Would it be disrespectful of me to say that "infracting rep-seekers" is just as dumb as "seeking rep"?
This was my point, a far more respectfully put I might add.

[Q]

I will not Mod as I am told.

Moved to chitchat
Try and have an repparty here peeps...

Good enough.

[Tablo]

Rep parties suck in chit-chat. :(