How do you make those bars below your..?

Richie! You have gone from red to green!

DistantHoller said:

You can´t see who sent you the bad rep wich I think is wrong. If you think someone is worth bad rep, you should have the courage to show your name.

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You can only see who left you rep, either positive or negative, if the giver chooses to leave their name. IMHO their should be no requirement for leaving a name, although I generally leave mine for positive only. The impact of forcing folks to leave their name would either be as described as above or people would just stop using the rep system at all. Either way, it would become useless in the end.

baggss said:

You can only see who left you rep, either positive or negative, if the giver chooses to leave their name. IMHO their should be no requirement for leaving a name, although I generally leave mine for positive only. The impact of forcing folks to leave their name would either be as described as above or people would just stop using the rep system at all. Either way, it would become useless in the end.

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For the 100th time. This is wrong. vBulletin allows for showing a column of the person who gave rep (positive or negative) and I really don't understand why they won't activate that.

This is why Crossbones:

some guy above said:

but if that rule was enforced then you may as well scrap the system as it will only incite rep-revenge. I like the rep system and think it has been tweaked enough that it's at a place where it works well, and all of this has been discussed at length before...

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Really, all the reason you need is that's the way the board leaders want it set up. This has been brought up multiple times and Schweb has said that is the way it shall be. Que sera, sera. Actually the only improvement I would like to see is that a comment should be required for positive rep too, not just negative

CrossBones said:

For the 100th time. This is wrong. vBulletin allows for showing a column of the person who gave rep (positive or negative) and I really don't understand why they won't activate that.

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And for the 101st time, your answer is here:
http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=363197&postcount=24

CrossBones said:

For the 100th time. This is wrong. vBulletin allows for showing a column of the person who gave rep (positive or negative) and I really don't understand why they won't activate that.

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No it's not. Just because the forum software allows for it doesn't mean it's enabled. Therefore my statement is still true, the onus is on the rep giver to leave their name as they choose, you can not see who left you what. I won't belabor the point as to why it is not enabled since I think you were just told twice.

DistantHoller said:

Richie! You have gone from red to green!

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Cheers to that! Thanks guys!

Richie_Gecko said:

Cheers to that! Thanks guys!

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Yeah! Good luck and you're much welcome!

KoDorSean said:

It means the user that left you rep has not been here long enough for their rep giving to count. you have to be a member a set amount of time before your opinion counts basically..

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Oh. Do you know how much long you have to be a member before your opinion counts?:dummy:

That amount of time is variable, and inversely proportional to the amount of posts you have with good solid and/or entertaining content.

Okay thanks!

*Psssttt!*

I wouldn't do that if I were you... Watch that sig.

Those new rules have been put in place because there had been abuse of the system lately.

yeah, get rid of that rixx. (i've got them turned off, so i wouldn't have noticed if MHC didn't say something)


hint: check my sig.

MacHeadCase said:

Those new rules have been put in place because there had been abuse of the system lately.

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Actually they weren't new rules, they have existed as long as the rep system. We just needed to clear up some confusion.

I always leave my name when I give rep, positive or negative. If I feel strongly enough that I'm dropping a red dot on someone, the least I can do is own up to it.

If someone wants to shoot neg rep back at me, so be it. Though as best I can remember, that's never happened. My guess is that most of the times I've given someone neg rep, a whole bunch of other people did, too, and mine just got lost in the crowd. :ninja:

I think names should be automatic for the reasons Todd mentions. Never ran across someone with a red bar...or never noticed.