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Originally Posted by rec3000  I see several manifestations, from Kudos to Mojo. It's really all the same. Maybe Rep Points was a poor title, likening it to a popularity contest.
*snippage*
I think that many members, particularly those with low rep points, mistook them for a popularity contest. I think that rep points gave everyone, including the mods, a fair barometer of how the site was going and who the informative and popular members were, which could certainly affect the success of a thread. |
Yeah - I've seen it called Kudos and a plus / minus system of Exhalting / Smiting and various other manefestations. Another thing I've seen is a board member's 'Member' title change with post count. So for example on an evolution related site you could start as protoplasm and move up through various evolved states as your post count hits 50 , 100 , 500 , 1000 and so on. It may seem kind of childish in some ways, but we do watch our milestones here (many of us), so why not have a marker?
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Originally Posted by rec3000 I don't mind if they are cliquey, but I wish they made a point of welcoming new members once in a blue moon--especially those noobs who take the time to write a pleasant introduction. Getting a greeting from someone who has, say, 3,000 posts and is not a mod/admin would be very welcoming! |
Actually yeah, I should do that more often - I remember a few 'names' appeared on my intro thread and it made me feel this was an inclusive site.
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Originally Posted by rec3000 Ask Banly! |
Well - my ban was a temp ban so I got the oportunity to ask when I got back. But I got no reason
with the ban, no mod / admin contacted me
during the ban and I did have to ask when I got back - the info was not volunteered (plus the responses were individual - there did not seem to be an official answer, as it were). So I would say no - a banned member is generally not told the why and wherefores of the ban - but then in the ToS it doesn't say they will be, nor indeed that the admin team really needs a reason. But let's not get into all that.