We should bring back the cool clicks

[kingfrnk]

Of course this wise old hobbit got on his stool and tried to plead with the rest of Saddo's about the long term problems of this new system but he was beaten down, rejected and despised.

I created several excellent threads none of which were taken seriously and nobody supported my cause.

But the coolclick model was far better this new system is nothing more than a weekly popularity contest.

Just have a look at the member ratings for rep count and watch it change every week. Legion was top until a couple weeks ago, now he's about 11th. Spicoli is at number 1 with Diane second whilst the previous leader Mick has dropped to third.

I havn't posted much this past couple weeks and so have dropped from 4th to about 20th.

Kingfynk is on a charge up the board and if someone else joins today and posts regularly they can look forward to being in the top 10 by the new year.

It's all meaningless now.

wat does this mean Bilbo?

Just that the rep points thing is useless mate. Because the inflatory nature of it our rep totals double every 3 weeks or so meaning that all the rep a person has accumulated in their entire time on this board (several years for some of us) will be double in just over a fortnight.

So in theory if the most respected longstanding poster on the board for example CutMeMick went away for a month and a new poster joined the day he left and posted prolifically like a prime ICB they could acrue same rep total in one month that it took CutMeMick 4 years to achieve.

So in other words the rep table only reflects the last month and nothing more, it's meaningless.

Whereas coolclicks were earned one at a time, and you had to be here a long time and make a lot of quality posts to have a decent coolclick ratio.

Back in the day Wacko had over a 1000 more coolclicks than anyone else, it would have taken about 2 years for even the second placed person to catch him and that only if Wack's didn't get any more coolclicks at all in those two years.

Now look at him, under the new system he's 108th on the ratings most respected board between leggy and beanflicker.


The highest reputation status you can achieve on this board is as follows

'Don't mess with this user you will get ktfo, too powerful and full of class'


Currently only 408 members have managed to reach this highest accolade, including most impressively Ready To Rumble, who did it with just 3 posts, the quality of which must have been simply amazing


It's not the system itself, the idea of giving rep is ok, it's the fact that your punch power increases leads to the system being spectacularly nerfed in this way.

I hate to use such geeky internet lingo, but in the words of a cyber nerd it's been an 'epic fail'.

ahhh. well i can care less about rep. i wasnt here for the Cool Clicks but how can they be any different??

[Gandalf]

I prefer the CC system. Bilbo makes some valid points, the system we have now has its flaws. The one at a time CC kept things real. This rep system just deals in silly numbers that do not reflect upon a poster accurately IMO.