Beware Of Advise

Gazz

When i try to rep its says i dont have permission to perform this action and signs me out!!! wtf?

I would feel even more special Youngy if you had given me a positive green square instead of a negative grey!

Nath

The problem is that it is the same bunch of people that make most worthy of rep points but the system wil not allow u to add points until u 'spread them about'.

Tall

Green = Positive Rep
Grey = Positive Rep, but given by someone with no rep power
Red = Neg reps

Can I safely assume you would like something sorted with I'll speak to MMUK.

Gazz

Its not the end of the world but with regards to the purpose of this thread it might help others to see who they can count on.How come its not like this on UKM?

Pikey

Sounds a good idea to me Tall.

wogihao

Thing is some of the very worst advice i ever read on message boards was given by people with masive post counts and loads of reps.

It meens nothing.

People need to take responceability for there own actions and not depend so much on the opinion of a internet message. Its good to get advice but to blindly follow whats been said without researching it for yourself and comming to a decision is folly.

Gazz

Agreed.But there's enough of us here to get to the bottom of most questions people ask and we're closely knit enough to reach an amicable conclusion.Personally i think it will discourage matt11/UDT types from being an anoying t1t and encourage alot more studiousity (if thats a word).

cellaratt

Well I just tried again to rep everyone on this page and it said I must spread reps...I haven't tried to give reps since yesterday...Find it helpful in someways but not a factor in others , I pay more attention to how people approach a questioned ask and If I personaly don't have anything to add I pass onto the next question, to see if I can help someone there...and so on...

Tall

On UKM I have one of the highest rep scores. I've been a member since maybe september...? However all my reps on their are from either manipulating the rep system (rep whoring) or from taking the mick out of people, which results on getting repped as people find my dry humour amusing

As UKM is such a large board, it ends up having alot of traffic in the general section - some people on their I don't think have ever commented on doing any training, but yet have alot of rep for the reasons above.

Some peoples rep on UKM comes purely from posting nudey photos up of hot ladies - but that doesn't mean you would want to rely on them to answer any questions on the synergist nature of certain steroids, or get them to elaborate on sarcoplasmic hypertrophy.

The rep system is ok, but it's easily abused.

If people want it up and running thats cool - we can get MMUK to have a look into making it work for the board members who post - removing / changing rep limits etc.

You will always get spammers on the boards, and you will always get people giving bad advice on the boards - really it's the communitys role to 'police' some of that bad advice, and either start a discussion showing why the advice was wrong or report the post to the mods.

The rep system is good though as it's an easy way for people to say 'thank you for helping me' without filling up your PM inbox

SX Dave

very good point and i think as Gazz said "we" are close knitt enough to weed out any bad/dangerous advise and all mature enough to discuss pros and cons of either view.

good post have a rep point