Reputation - formerly a feature

[Dorothy]

From the drunk that didn't dunk!

[Ross]

OK, laugh it up you guys Now I see my 3 reps back

[Dorothy]

Whew Ross!
You almost had a ruined reputation on your hands

[Ross]

Originally Posted by Dorothy

Whew Ross!
You almost had a ruined reputation on your hands

Like that would ever happen

[dennis]

You gain one reputation point for every 365 cycle of being registered
You gain one reputation point for every 1000 posts
For every 100 reputation points you get an extra point

i understand the concept behind all of this but because some one has over 8000 post and has been here for ten years automatically will recieve more points than someone who has twenty post has a few hundred plants and has been growing for over twenty years and the knowledge behind them is impeccabile compared to someone who post just to pad thier post count. if i was brand new to this board and actually new what the rep points stood for and saw that joe schmo had ten rep points and told me that i need to cut my roots all the way back to the crown even the healthy ones i am supposed to listen to him
compared to john schmo who has 45 post no rep points and tells me the plant is fine i just need to increase or decrease my lighting and humidity and the plant will be fine then i should take his info and chuck it out the window. to a point this is a good idea but i think that this is going to segregatethe knowledgeable members from the ones that fly by thier seat of thier pants and would rather post alot of bs just to pad thier count. I myself have quit offering knowledge and asking for help because of the bs being posted afterwards most of which just comes from a google search. thier are some really knowledgeable members here that i have seen a decline in thier post and i believe that it may be due to this. it is a wonderful site you have here and you do a nice job with it i think the bs should be kept out of the orchid forums and be put in the off topics or in a pm to the member. any and all info in my opinion should be given carefully as due to the wide vast of growing conditions,my self i have two growing areas
one with a high humidity rate and good lighting and one with good lighting and a rh around 50% average and i take notes on the difference on the growth between the two areas.but as far as the rep points and post counts go you can keep mine to zero i dont need to win a popularity contest with anyone i have met some rally nice and knowledgable people here and have met some that i would rather not deal with again to which i am sure some feel the same about me as well which i do not care. one of the funniest things i read on here was a member calling a species a really nice hybrid and you know that person has more rep points than the ones who have started to stop offering thier knowledge. like i said in the beginning i understand the point you want to get across with this system but i think it needs to be redone in a matter that will not hurt the ones that really do know what they are doing and stop favoring the ones who post the bs. maybe also post a sticky in the forums so when a new member does decide to join it explains what those points mean. just my two cents worth

[Marty]

Dennis, lets run this for a while and see if it works... If it doesn't, it's always easy to scrap it. I think a really good quality post will always register a lot of rep points for a user. Post padding on the other hand wont. This isn't meant to exclude anyone from posting, just to recognize the quality posters. Of course, we have a log of quality posters that have no reputation, since the system hasn't been in place before. We need to let this run for a while in order to see how it works.

[Erin Raven Skye]

I understand how you feel about the reputation points, so please don't jump on me for speaking up. I can't speak about the joe shmoes you mentioned, I'm only speaking for myself here. As a new member, with an actual concern that I asked advice about, I didn't take reputation points into consideration, and I didn't just jump at some random advice I received. I used common sense, my previous knowledge of plants, as well as my own intensive google searches. The problem with many people's advice (as was actually pointed out by another member this morning) is that what works really good for one person/plant/location may not work for another. You have to take advice with a grain of salt, and I hope that the people asking for advice will do just that. As a giver (or withholder) of advice, you can't worry about the BS or how people are going to take it, just do what's right for you, and offer your experience, because that's what it boils down to. I hope you're not offended by my reply and take it in the way it was meant. Just my two cents.

[Tindomul]

Marty,
I don't think that the number of posts should count towards one's reputation.

[Marty]

Originally Posted by Tindomul1of9

Marty,
I don't think that the number of posts should count towards one's reputation.

1 point for 500 posts isn't being very generous and I'd think that in 500 posts you make at least one post that someone found useful but didn't give you credit for it. Tindo you're overruled. I feel that post counts will be very negligible after a few months. One great post could potentially give a member a lot of reputation points from numerous members. Since we just started this, top posters are obviously at the top of the rep scale, but in long run I don't think that number of posts will matter at all.

[cb977]

Originally Posted by Erin Raven Skye

I understand how you feel about the reputation points, so please don't jump on me for speaking up. I can't speak about the joe shmoes you mentioned, I'm only speaking for myself here. As a new member, with an actual concern that I asked advice about, I didn't take reputation points into consideration, and I didn't just jump at some random advice I received. I used common sense, my previous knowledge of plants, as well as my own intensive google searches. The problem with many people's advice (as was actually pointed out by another member this morning) is that what works really good for one person/plant/location may not work for another. You have to take advice with a grain of salt, and I hope that the people asking for advice will do just that. As a giver (or withholder) of advice, you can't worry about the BS or how people are going to take it, just do what's right for you, and offer your experience, because that's what it boils down to. I hope you're not offended by my reply and take it in the way it was meant. Just my two cents.

Erin, I'm so happy to see what you've posted here

The best advice ANY orchid grower can give to somebody looking for help is this:
Read all you can possibly get your eyes on...then decide what works for you IN YOUR CONDITIONS. Here at Orchidboard, you have the opportunity to see lots of photos, which is proof that what that grower is doing works in their conditions. What I do here in Florida will not work for somebody living in the tundra...and vice versa.

Another piece of advice, and one that I don't see very often...
don't buy orchids that are not bred to thrive in your location. That's not to say they WON'T grow but it'll take a lot of extra work and reconditioning for that to happen.

The advice given here at OB comes from the heart...all of our members truly want to help others learn but you have to make your own decisions on what will or will not work for you.

Smart girl