Rubix

Phenomenal cosmic power?

That's the one.

May I ask why? I don't dispute the decision at all, as I think Voidus is an excellent choice, but I'd be interested to know the reasoning behind your it.

Announcement post is coming soon, we'll talk about why there.

How did you do that, anyways?

I forget the first part, but the second is "itty bitty living space".

Chaos (rubix?) did say there was going to be a mass spiking soon. I guess it's fitting.

I warned him!

Edit: Oh, hey, Voidus. You're a mod now, BTW.

If people did constantly post upvote, I assume others would react to that. 

Oh, there would be a reaction, and it would be swift.

Yes, your insight is very useful to help us appreciate staff's work However, I was mainly interested in problems that are specificaly caused by the rep system. I figured that admins and mods are putting a lot of work to make this forum as great as it is, but how is current reputation system making it harder?

I'm working on a response that I'm hoping to be able to get to you today. Might be tomorrow.

This is not a thread about Kaladin's mental health. Keep this thread on topic.

Thread locked for moderation. You two need to take a step away and take a few deep breaths.

Use this contact form, let them know what's going on. They may be able to help you out.

http://store.brandonsanderson.com/contact-us/

The admins might have their say, and they make the rules, but if I'm allowed to voice my opinion, it's that downvotes are to be used only in the most heinous of cases. And I hope strongly that no matter what the admins decide will become official policy, the 17th Shard will retain that magical positivity that has made it such a great place to be.

I've worked for FIVE YEARS to make sure that this community is a positive one. Cultivating that magical positivity is my primary job around here, and that's OFTEN through creating site policies. Other than that, it's PMing people, reminding them that they should be respectful members of the site. The amount of time I'm spending weekly at this point trying to fix issues that are arising because of the rep system is insane. I have to do something to fix that, because right now, the reputation system is threatening the culture that I've worked so hard to create. I'm here trying to fix it. I haven't said a lot, because a) right now, the discussion is flowing pretty well on its own, and b ) I have a day job. I'm not a miracle worker, and I don't have all the answers, so I've brought it to the community, to try to see where everybody thinks we should go. I'm listening to everyone (to so continuously insist that you aren't being heard is also rather offensive, in case you were wondering), to try to figure out the answer.

I've done my best, and honestly, every time I hear that this is one of the nicest places on the internet, I take it as someone saying that I'm doing a pretty good job. If you disagree with that, I'd love to hear more about exactly why that is via PM.

Unfortunately we had the first ultrasound of my unborn child today so it falls into the second most awesome thing to happen to me today but it is nontheless greatly appreciated and I would give you all the upvotes were I not already at quota. (But I suppose that's the point )

I'll happily take second seat to that. Congratulations.

I got it changed to a chasmfiend corpse actually  

You're welcome.

Mission accomplished. I will frame this picture and show it to my grandchildren some day.

On a more serious note, isn't limiting the quota for upvotes like this going to create a massive, uncrossable divide between the current top reputation Sharders and everyone else?

Congratulations.

There was always a quota. We've just moved it back, and not as far as you may think.

 

 

I kinda want to go back to it now.

Well I screenshotted my negative 9000 Zucchini rank while I could so that's lucky I guess.

 

You have 60 seconds.

Time's up.

10 is not nearly enough, I agree.   I would be flopping over like that bunny much, much more.

10 is something that we're running as a trial. We'll see how it goes from here.

Adonalsium=Chasmfiend corpse

Nope. -9000 is now Chasmfiend corpse.

Chasmfiend corpse it shall be.

So it would take approximately 15 days of everybody downvoting Kobold to get him to 0?

10 upvotes seems pretty slim for those of us who visit multiple boards. As a suggestion is there any way to limit the quota to a per-subforum basis? That way things like the social guilds, Random stuff and RPs don't generate dozens of upvotes but it gives a bit more leeway for people who jump around a bit more.

Sadly, no.

Also, why take days when it can take mere seconds?

edit: I don't suppose you'd mind warning us first next time?

I don't think the experiment would have worked quite as well if there had been warning.

Wait... solution!

Everyone downvote each other until our reputations have been inverted then we'll just use downvotes as upvotes. Someone's going to need to downvote Kobold about 20,000 times.

*40000

It looks like we've got downvotes back... but... but...

*cackle*

Can we have badges back then?

I'll look into it once the site's updated.

I don't think Chaos meant they're going to reset it tonight….I gathered that it was just an idea floating around. 

correct.

I'm wondering how you got an upvote.

Testing something.

NEVER!! Flufflepuff is one of them. ONE OF THEM!!!!!!!

Hmm... Flufflepuff-quisitor.... Hmm...