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So everyone who disagrees with another's opinion get to lower their reputation?

The only person I respect he is taco fan. Bias is an insult to bullying.

Arun is correct, The Forum even a year ago was 100 times the forums now.

Where i was on the forums 2 years ago :

https://www.warlight.net/Forum/6232-myhand-daily-natural-beauty?Offset=20

Forum was still kind of crappy then.

2012 is what you want.

I prefer 2014

Genghis, I looked at the 2012 threads, and analysed a whole page of them - it was all just minor announcements that all got less than 10 posts.

You can find decents talks about it, but you can do the same in anywhere.

I prefer 2015, it just has it's bad and good waves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma

It will never work. The link explains why. Humans will simply demote everybody they see so that their reputation score looks higher compared to everyone elses. There is no incentive to give reputation points other than to make friends. Rational Human beings would realize this very fast and just start demoting everybody they saw.

The real problem is this: People care too much about what another random person playing an online game thinks. Too many arguments have been started and not resolved over politics or sports or things that don't have to do with warlight. I am not advising that we dump the forums because they are irrelevant. I am advising that we stop trying to burn down posters, give death threats, and flip shit because somebody has a different opinion than you.

Grow up guys. People will have a different opinion than you and you have to deal with it.

That said all humans are NOT equal.

taking warlight forum trolls seriously <3

Love you Sharpe!

Reputation that eventually lower's people's visibility is a horrible idea. Even in a forum with fewer trolls. People with differing opinions will immediately lower each other's rep, and if someone's rep gets too low they'll just create an alt and start over.
And what would be to stop trolls from mass-producing alts for the sole purpose of lowering a single person's rep?

Oh, and mods probably won't happen. It's just Fizzer and Mercer, and they do not have the free time to constantly moderate all this shit.

It's not just them. There are other mods, who choose to stay anonymous. Perhaps increasing their number is a good idea? Difficult to find trustworthy players though.

There are other mods, who choose to stay anonymous

Interesting...

That is true Arun, it would seem most of the people on these forums have no sense of decency and will simply use mod powers to promote their own threads.

Reputation that eventually lower's people's visibility is a horrible idea. Even in a forum with fewer trolls. People with differing opinions will immediately lower each other's rep, and if someone's rep gets too low they'll just create an alt and start over.

Taking an alt creates effort and would also get past any moderation system anyway. People will also be able to increase their rep by playing games (just assigning points to themselves) so active players will never have an issue. You could also just distribute rep in accordance with ladder points instead, too, so that only good/responsible players get that power.

Taking an alt creates effort and would also get past any moderation system anyway. People will also be able to increase their rep by playing games (just assigning points to themselves) so active players will never have an issue. You could also just distribute rep in accordance with ladder points instead, too, so that only good/responsible players get that power.

Not really. when i was banned, I created an alt in less than 3 minutes.

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Most people would just create hordes of alts to trash anybody they want. And some people would threaten to unleash their horde just to silence somebody they don't agree with on the forums.

Honestly, I would stop going on the forums for the sake of my reputation because chances are you will get demoted more times than promoted. I and many other people would just abandon the forums for fear of saying something that might incite a rep point backlash.

Also, what would stop people from spamming the "bad rep" button on somebody's profile?

Edited 7/12/2015 22:38:03

The problem is "bad" and "good" reputation is not able to be measured. At least, not nearly as accurately as anybody wants. Reputation is subjective, and therefore, someone, or worse, multiple people, view something as "bad" when someone, or multiple people, view the same thing as "good". An example being: Some people are not happy about seeing politics, and history on the off-topic forum. Some people are. This could possibly lead to a mass exchange of reputation points, where people on different sides on the argument use their points to lower the reputation of the people who don't agree with them.

Yes, I understand that the people who do this are immature and people who do that do not deserve to be here, and the likes, but with great power comes great responsibility (I'm sorry for being cliché). The great power being, groups of people able to tarnish others' reputation for disagreeing with them, and the responsibility being to use these points responsibly. What I am trying to say is, it could happen. And what better way to stop it happening, than allowing no chance for it to happen?

The best solution to the problem of trolls, is to leave them alone, and not give them what they want - attention. The responsible players must be able to locate and ignore the trolls who dwell on the fora, so they do not receive the luxury of players' attention. What happens after this, is people take the time to report them, that will probably not get noticed for a few days, so the troll gets happier, and creates more meaningless and stupid threads, and it perpetuates, until the troll gets suspended. Eventually the troll will make alts, will come back, or a new one will pop up. So if we just leave them to do their own little thing, letting their threads sink into obscurity, we will have a more pleasant forum.

tl;dr Don't feed the trolls.

*use the word fora instead of forums. Everybody follows suit*