Feedback Red/Green - where is the FAQ page for this

lol I can assure you if I was going to leave a comment in a rep rep my grammar would be a lot better than it is there.

Get your facts right buddy before you cite your verbal attacks on people.

More often than not I will just say in the thread what I think of the thread and in that particular case I just wondered why you had started a thread and not gone on to discuss why you were wondering. Someone obviously agreed with my point and gave you a negative reputation rather than stating in the thread that they agreed with me.

 

corena, thanks for reproducing that quote from Shawn. Actually, we've had that right in the first reply itself

Shawn's is a useful start but in no way a full FAQ of the rep sytem. I was hoping this thread would provide all the missing pieces. And, it was doing nicely too .... it has revealed a fair few facts that are "obvious" to the more experienced here but frustratingly unintelligible to the new comers. In addition to what Shawn listed we do know

- people can stay annonymous when giving either kind of rep
- rep can be accompanied by a brief message ... but it does not reveal the giver's identity unless s/he opts to do so
- rep can be associated with the thread and particular post it relates to
- there is a culture of awarding negative rep to whines about getting negative rep
- history of what rep you received and when does not extend past the last five awards
- you can see a numeric value for your own rep but not for others and you judge their rep based on the number of dark/light green squares they have (though I've no idea why some are dark and some light).
- other minor points (like there's such a thing as a grey box for neutral rep i.e. when someone wants to give you rep but hasn't been around long enough - though what purpose neutral rep serves is beyond me)

My thanks to aaron_nimmocks, Weirfire, HodgedUp, and corena who all tried to help ... and even to elkiwi for a passionate, flowery description of his perception .

I had a simple question: Is there a FAQ? It appears there isn't. It would have been good to start with Shawn's points above and build a list of the missing links. But, that was not to be. Some juveniles took it as a opportunity to poke fun. Some half-wits assumed I was moaning about getting "red". And the discussion has meandered on to who's a big baby and who's not. Maybe it's time to say, "Thanks everybody, that largely answers my question", and leave it to Shawn to build a proper FAQ at some point if he feels it necessary.

 

Thanks for producing that list of points Merkersarl. It was very kind of you to spend the time required to write all that out for everyone

 

Ninno!!!! you still have to draw lines in order to even type in a straight Line??

 

lol I didnt even notice that "The Webmaster"

 

You wanted to put there "cheeky brat", dont you??

 

nope .