Originally Posted by MMogg
Someone suggest this good idea not too long ago. but then nihl credo said some stupid response and just lock the thread. it seemed like a good idea , but then was not taken serious. maybe this is why all the adept has left.
Hey, about that user reputation thing. It really does not work any better than the "crowning your pals adepts" system we have had for years. I have spoken to a few people on this site about it, and I have more use reputation points than people who are far more knowledgeable/relevant than myself, and make more intelligent posts. This suggests that the mods have simply been issuing points based on who they like and subtracting points from people they don't. And since apparently only mods are intelligent enough to have an opinion - voilla - same shit, different packaging.
Well, in theory, mods and Adepts aren't the only ones who can give out points; they just give out more. However, in practice it seems like most of the regular users on the site either don't know or don't care about the rep system, so you tend to only get points for amusing but largely worthless posts and don't get points for posts you put more time into thinking about than typing.
The system isn't great, but it's not like being an Adept is anything special either. People who take the time to read around the site should be able to figure out who is worth listening to for particular topics/decks fairly quickly (many of whom aren't actually Adepts).
Who else can give points? As far as I know, Nightmare only gave these rights to Staff and Adepts to begin with.
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Who gives a fuck? So many people are butt hurt about not being "Adepts", but it doesn't fucking matter. No one just goes through a thread looking for the teal blue users and only read those. If you actually care about being an Adept you should worry about your real life more.
And about IBA getting banned and unbanned. Again, who gives a fuck? He has contributed a lot to the format and just because he gets special privileges on this forum doesn't mean its favortism. It's because he actually makes intelligent posts and that's what is trying to be promoted on this site.
Basically, this is a Magic forum and people are caring too much about popularity.
Think what you want, but as far as I know, only two people made ´promotion´ in the last half year (or how long was it): hi-val and 4eak. Adept/mod status may not say alot, but the fact that these guys were the only ones promoted says alot about them. Not that we didn't already know that, but that's besides the point
Apparently, you do
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I'm not the only person to ever be unbanned. However, I think you're much mistaken if you think the Source operates like a Court of Appeals. The Source is a privately owned and operated establishment. Like all such, it has the right to kick out or retain visitors as it sees fit, and interpret its own rules any way it sees fit. And a privately owned pub is more likely to ban an idiot that has started up fights with the employees multiple times in his first few visits than a guy who's been coming regularly for years, contributed to the scene, and occasionally flips out and turns people to stone with his magical bear breath because they were fucking asking for it, right?
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that is ONLY true of the Standard Proven Competitive Forums. There are just too many decks in the Tier 1 category of Legacy to reliably do that on this forum even if they use a similar software on this forum and could theoretically pull it off. Additionally it is indeed a moderating nightmare, and they have like 5 dedicated Moderators to the Standard Forum alone.
As far as the idea of making seperate threads for the Decks to beat and placing them in a "Hidden Forum" that is linked to by the Main Thread. That doesn't work from what I understand based on vBulletin as anyone who does not have access to that hidden forum will be unable to view those hidden threads even with them being linked in the main thread.
@ Skeggi, actually I have seen several people with varrying user status's above the basic starting status (and even more with lower status's) So yes, other people have been promoted. Maybe not directly up to Adept level, but promotions have been happening.
That's just reputation, that's not real promotion. Reputation is a tool to keep in check who's talking only nonsense. Inspired by Magic Fanatic's fantastic fantasy stories if I recall correctly. So if you see someone with a red rectangle, it just means he has been making rather rediculous posts. The way I see it, reputation is implemented as a device to upgrade post quality. Not as a way to promote or demote people.
If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it's probably delicious.
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yet that is exactly what it is being used to do (Promote people).
Nah, you can do it. Like you can read this thread, even though it's in the hidden TIBABSISAATW forum.
Also, true story; the last meaningful thing the Adepts did was have a very long argument about whether or not the Adepts served any useful purpose. And the result was ambivalent at best. As far as I can recall the concept of User Reputation arose out of that discussion as a way to sort of replace the same function more democratically.
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You're telling me that little green bar I worked so hard for over the last year has been completely stripped from me? But... how do people know how awesome I am now? My forum life is being stripped away!
People need to know how I am "Here to learn, and help others learn."!
lol newb u cared about rep
Clearly, cool kids like Pastorofmuppets and Jak. didn't, so now the mods have decided to get rid of the system. Cry sum moar.
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So no more adepts it seems? Everyone has lost their colors unless they were admins.
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Seems to be the case. I personally think it's just fine, now people can just start judging posts for their content.
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