Addressing Issues

I have been on forums with those ‘social score’ systems, and in every case it was disabled because of abuse, as it became a popularity contest.

(ie. fake accounts to upvote ones and down vote others, or a group of people deliberately ganging up on someone’s score, etc.)

Just by interacting (and the forums are meant so we can interact), you will know those you “respect” and are helpful from those whose opinion you do not.

IMO, we don’t need to see the total “LIKES” you have, or how many ‘BOOOs” you have.

I try to read each post on the merits of that post.  I might agree with it, I might not.  We are here to share opinions, to have discussions.  Not to win a popularity contest.

@larioxem

That sounds like a social credit system, I don’t like the idea of that as we already have to deal with that type of thing in real life. Something like that is only gonna make things worse on the website and lead to a two tier society here and we don’t need anymore division in life or online. Just my 2 cents.

@larioxem We had one earlier at the launch of the site (we called it Geek Points), but it was being abused by some accounts so we disabled it. Once we get a more solid way of being able to mitigate some of these fake/dupe accounts, I don’t see why we couldn’t bring it back.

@Legatus_Legionis that is definitely why we stopped the geek point system. I noticed there are several accounts being used by a single IP address and they just flood the boards with memes.

@Blood.Ranger it’s nothing like a “social score” as much as it is suppose to be a way to reward the most active members with fun titles. What the initial plan with geek points was to allow members to be able to use their points to enter raffle contests, but like Legatus had mentioned, it was being abused so we removed it so there wasn’t an unfair advantage.

I noticed there are several accounts being used by a single IP address and they just flood the boards with memes.

Are all these accounts called Greg??

Inserted images seem to have no maximum display size in posts and can wreak havoc on page formatting, as well as displaying a preview image smaller than the one in the post when clicked on.

Going to second what @Legatus_Legionis said.

A certain person who needs to be reported, and removed.

There is no area to click to get Trusted when I go to the server doing as you said. I also don’t know what you mean by “bottom of channel”. There is nothing there.