An Open Letter to YarisBueller and VitzBoy - Toyota Yaris Forums

47_MasoN_47 · 08-19-2009, 11:13 AM

The rep level stuff, as others have mentioned, often is abused or simply turned into a "popularity contest". The Ubuntu forums used to have one of those thanks systems but ultimately abandoned it because it was abused also. Things like that are always hard to maintain on forums, as why most large forums don't have them. Take the Xbox-Scene forums for example, there are over 400,000 members there, but everyone pretty much knows the knowledgeable people just because of what they have accomplished. IMO, the best way to show you are knowledgeable is to post helpful, informative topics. Link them in your signature so that people can find them easily, post replies often and in a courteous informative manner. I'm not trying to bash your idea, but generally the people who are truly helpful and would deserve the reputation/thanks aren't easy to find. I've only been here a few weeks and I've already picked out several people that I consider helpful and definitely know what they are talking about. Most of the time you end up with members of low-moderate quality focusing primarily on gathering rep/thanks (for whatever reason) instead of actually being helpful.

I don't hang around here all hours of the day, or for very long each day, but I don't notice a lot of spam in the main few threads I post in (mostly the technical forums).

I haven't been here long enough to know what's going on with the moderators, other than apparently there is a lack of them.

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08-19-2009, 11:13 AM	#11
47_MasoN_47 What I thought I'd do was View User's Garage Drives: 09 Yaris Sedan Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Northwest Alabama Posts: 1,140	The rep level stuff, as others have mentioned, often is abused or simply turned into a "popularity contest". The Ubuntu forums used to have one of those thanks systems but ultimately abandoned it because it was abused also. Things like that are always hard to maintain on forums, as why most large forums don't have them. Take the Xbox-Scene forums for example, there are over 400,000 members there, but everyone pretty much knows the knowledgeable people just because of what they have accomplished. IMO, the best way to show you are knowledgeable is to post helpful, informative topics. Link them in your signature so that people can find them easily, post replies often and in a courteous informative manner. I'm not trying to bash your idea, but generally the people who are truly helpful and would deserve the reputation/thanks aren't easy to find. I've only been here a few weeks and I've already picked out several people that I consider helpful and definitely know what they are talking about. Most of the time you end up with members of low-moderate quality focusing primarily on gathering rep/thanks (for whatever reason) instead of actually being helpful. I don't hang around here all hours of the day, or for very long each day, but I don't notice a lot of spam in the main few threads I post in (mostly the technical forums). I haven't been here long enough to know what's going on with the moderators, other than apparently there is a lack of them.