What did I do to deserve a red dot?

[BinCo]

I noticed on the right side that my little dot went red after 100 posts. It says I have a little shameless behaviour in my past. What does that mean? How can I find out what my status is and what to do about it?

If it is a compaint from another member, what can I do to challenge it or redeem myself if it's from the CFF staff?

[Sigmund]

What red dot is that?

[EricNY]

I noticed on the right side that my little dot went red after 100 posts. It says I have a little shameless behaviour in my past. What does that mean? How can I find out what my status is and what to do about it?

If it is a compaint from another member, what can I do to challenge it or redeem myself if it's from the CFF staff?

If you go to "userCP" at the top of the page and then click on "user control panel"

You should see a section that says "Latest Reputation Recieved"

Hope that helps let me know.

[EricNY]

What red dot is that?


To the right of your posts you have a dot or maybe more. It represents your reputation here in the eyes of the other members.

[Journeyman]

If you go to "userCP" at the top of the page and then click on "user control panel"

You should see a section that says "Latest Reputation Recieved"

Hope that helps let me know.

ErcNY, I followed your directions as I was wondering what the red dot was, too. There was not a section underneath the user control panel that says "latest reputation received". So how do I see what other people have said about me? Jeez, this is making me paranoid about posting!

[EricNY]

:D

If there is nothing there no one has made any comments good or bad.

[OZJames]

ercNY, please explain what the squares mean:-

- GREY
- GREEN
- RED

and what it means to have more than one

[EricNY]

Hard to explain exactly, but if you click on members (in the header above) it will list all members by reputation.

Hover your cursor over the green dots on the left of each member. Of course you can do this on any post and see the reputation of the member that posted.

Does that help?

[BinCo]

I got minus 5 points because I thought that Britney Spears losing custody of her children is deserving and said that it couldn't happen to a nicer tramp????!!!!

So someone gives me -5 and says

"It's not cool to kick someone when their down."

Did Chris Carter get into the forum when no one was looking? Since he couldn't make an insane rant about how we should all just leave her alone, he bashes me with -5?

With all the personal bashing between forum members who has the right to give me -5 in the first place? And I might note that I can't seem to figure out who did it and how to contest it. I thought we could only give each other a plus or minus 1 point. Yet it seems that ONE person gave me a -5 since there is only one comment listed.

I can't say it loud enough. WITH ALL THE BASHING FROM A FEW SELECT MEMBERS AT EACH OTHER, HOW CAN I GET -5 FOR MAKING FUN OF THE FOOL BRITNEY SPEARS?:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

[EricNY]

Don't take it so personally....Its just a way to approve or disapprove of peoples posts, and send them that message.

Considering you started at zero you are ok.

Have fun with it. Spread some cheer towards someone else :D

[luvnaturism]

I'm with BinCo on this. It's a system that is easily subject to abuse. It would be one thing if it was applied by the administrators in response to specific violations of the TOS, but the way it is someone who merely disagrees with a point of view expressed in a reasonable manner can apply a "penalty." And why wouldn't someone take it personally? It is, after all, a personal attack made by someone who disagreed with an opinion expressed in an open forum.

I hope this system can be given some additional thought. This forum has enough history of abuse by angry people without providing a support system for it.

[EricNY]

The system is not as easy as you think to abuse.

For example the system will only allow a limited use. You can only give one person reputation, so you would need to use it carefully.

Secondly if you have no reputation you will not have much of an impact on any one else.

The thought is maybe some people will "self moderate" a little bit, based on opinions of their peers.

[BinCo]

I'm all for a little self moderation. But someone who is a fan of Britney Spears is allowed to bash my reputation when others have openly said what they think of my opinions and not pinged me for points? This seems very petty to me.:mad:

Is there any ideas of making these opinions a limited time item? In other words, can we reward or demerit someone and know that it will be reverted back in 48 hours or something? Otherwise it seems open to gang abuse by people with high post numbers that allow them to demerit constantly. Are these marks tracked so that an individual who has a large post count can't keep nailing someone they don't like over and over? If they are tracked, will someone abusing them be called on it by the moderator? Are you tracking if they are even used by forum members? If not, why bother?

A bunch of people can gang up on someone who makes a rude comment to a popular person? Is this the point?

ercNY says to not take it personally? How else can it be taken? It is a system entirely designed to be a personal assault on an individual. A few people seem to defend a single non-nudist that posts here and they get to shut down a seemingly large number who want this individual booted off. It took a long history of abuse by a certain "BobX" and what finally got him booted was exposure of who he really is. Or was it that he launched an assalt on the moderator team? How many forum participants quit after the constant bashing by him?

With some of the polarized opinions it seems that a number of people are so high in the point count that a little guy like me could NEVER have an effect on their reputation so what is the use of it? If memory serves me we get to give and take points based on our post counts and some other factors.

I agree with luvnaturism that it might be better to be a moderator tracker based on complaints from members in the forum. A sort of warning. I still think it should be timed and expire after a period of time.

[EricNY]

Well B....

....You are saying many different things in your post there. The system will not let you do the things you are concerned about. Once you give reputation to a member, you can not repeat that memer for some time, and have to give to others first.

Keep an open mind about it, and don't let one person that disagreed with you to get you down.

As far as other members like bobx etc.....we are not going to ban people here, without giving ample oppurtunity to redeem themselves. Additionally a person has to break TOS to get the boot. We have an infraction system in place for that.

[simonsebs]

Honestly I didn't expect all of this. I'm the one the reason you have the red dot. This orginally started on one of my topics. I had intended for that to be about how a parent's nudity should not be used against them in a custody battle. Now I don't consider myself a Britney Spears fan(at max she has two songs I like), still I felt your comment was uncalled for. If you had just said that you agreed with the court's decision to take her kids away there would be no problem. It just seemed to me that you were gloating at another person's misfortune and those laugh out loud symbols is what put it over the top. Like I said its not cool to kick people when they're down, even if they put themselves there. The only reason I didn't say so is because I felt that would be off-topic and I try hard not to make off-topic comments. If I had known my actions would cause all this I would have just sent a PM.

In conclusion, I didn't mean to make you this upset and I'm not trying to gang up on anyone. I hope you will chill out and not let things like this bother you, I'm just one person and my views are my own.

[BinCo]

Now I know who dinged me. I was wondering how I got dinged 5 points for saying that she deserved it. Thanks for withdrawing it. I would still like to see it as a temporary thing, maybe a couple days to get the message across.

I would be less prove to laugh at someone's misfortune if they lost their kids due to a one time incident. She has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to me that she is a bad person. Without going into all the BS with the tabloids which is bad enough. It was also announced that in the divorce papers she had to state her income and spending to figure out how much money Kevin will get. At the time she was making over $700,000 a MONTH and gave $0 to savings or charities even for the kids. She had $110,000 listed for clothing and entertainment. Excuse me for standing back and taking any shots at her but I doubt if anyone on this group rakes in that kind of cash and does not give a little. She is not even putting money away for the kid's college or anything. She is a little fool and will make a very funny "Behind the Music".

[Sandman]

Reputation is a cool new feature and I think ercNY did a good job explaining. The more rep you have, the more rep impact you will make on others. If you have bad rep, you wont be able to impact other reputation very much. However, if you have been given a lot of good reputation, your rep to others will really make a difference. Also, you can't keep tagging the same person, so this will keep enemies from making a HUGE impact on you. But people that have no enemies will have great rep. :) Over time it will work itself out well.

[Sanslines]

A major problem is that this may inhibit some posters from posting anything. Other posters may hold back due to fear. Some topics are controversial and involve heated debate and emotion. I would hope that any system feature would be used to encourage others to express their opinions regardless of whether those opinions are popular or not. The only thing that should matter is that a person is being honest about their beliefs and not whether those beliefs satisfy everyone. I once worked with a man who would go around and say that he 'agreed with everyone' in any meeting that he attended. Of course he did not and others would start disagreeing with him immediately as they argued that it is impossible to agree with everyone and truly become 'Mr Popular'.

[justnude]

OK-I followed the driections and under reputation I see 4 points. What exactly does that mean? Have I ofended 4 people or what?

[EricNY]

No that is not what it means. You started with zero, so you are 4 to the good