Rep Spread Suggestion

• TA wrote on 2011-10-24 22:49
  How about adding a timer reset for who you repped every 3 days or so?
  
  Cause, I mean, I don't particularly rep a whole slew of people. I rep maybe probably around 5 or so different people at any given time, since that's the majority of the active people in the sections I largely visit (General Discussions / Bean Rua) and the way it is now means I basically have to go out and rep some random people on some random part of the forum, even if I haven't repped anyone for a week or more. What is this nonsense!
  
  So anyways, yeah. I get the point of it, but I think it'd be nice if it reset at some point.
• Kenny? wrote on 2011-10-24 22:53
  Do you mean like you can only rep the same person once every 3 days?
• Cucurbita wrote on 2011-10-24 22:56
  I'd prefer this. I don't rep too very often myself, and most of the time when I try I'm told I can't do it.
  
  Real bummer.
• Navy wrote on 2011-10-24 23:11
  I approve of this
• Ithiliel wrote on 2011-10-24 23:14
  I agree with this suggestion too. There's been too many times where I've wanted to rep people and I can't even though I haven't repped them in weeks.
• TA wrote on 2011-10-24 23:17

  Quote from Kenny?;634181:

  Do you mean like you can only rep the same person once every 3 days?

  
  
  No.
  
  The way it is now, if we rep someone then we have to "spread some reputation around" before we can rep them again. It's some arbitrary number, I'm not sure what it is. Probably like 5-10 other reps. If you repped one person then a crapload of other people you could rep them again the same day, that's how it's designed.
  
  But let's say you don't rep all that many other people. If you have to rep like 5-10 other people, and the 5-10 people that you do generally rep are all blocked from being repped because you repped them too recently, then you now have a real problem.
  
  Currently the only way out of this is finding people that you have either never repped or have repped so long ago that it won't matter to be able to unlock yourself from not being able to rep the people you want.
  
  If we set a timer on it so it'd reset this counter that keeps track of who we repped last every 3 days or so after repping that person, it'd solve the problem of having to rep a bunch of various random people that you don't particularly think really deserved it.
  
  For me, I may rep around 5 people, then I may not really rep for a week or two. And then someone makes a good post and I go to rep them... "you must spread reputation around before repping this person again." wth man. I haven't repped anyone for over a week!
  
  And anyways, yeah. That's the general point of this, to eliminate having to rep meaninglessly, by having an actual reset in there somewhere. That way we can't take advantage of it too much, but if we don't rep too much then we should be able to rep who we want fairly frequently.
• Cucurbita wrote on 2011-10-24 23:25
  The Great Mabination Balance Patch 1.41b
  
  

  
  
  • Rep cooldown has been adjusted to a 3 day timer rather than a numerical counting system
    

  
  
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  <Insert zerg players rage>
• Zeo wrote on 2011-10-25 00:48
  Maybe it's just me... but I do not approve this idea. It'd only make specific users get even more rep now. :/
• Xemnas wrote on 2011-10-25 00:58

  Quote from Zeo;634337:

  Maybe it's just me... but I do not approve this idea. It'd only make specific users get even more rep now. :/

  
  
  people get rep if they deserve it.
• Ithiliel wrote on 2011-10-25 01:00

  Quote from Zeo;634337:

  Maybe it's just me... but I do not approve this idea. It'd only make specific users get even more rep now. :/

  
  
  Why does it matter to you how much rep a user has? Honestly it seems you disagree with anything that you feel gives anyone else something that you don't have, or have the same amount of.
  
  If someone wants to rep someone because they find something funny or useful, etc. They should be able to rep them without having to give a bunch of pointless rep elsewhere, this idea makes good use of that.
• Strawberry wrote on 2011-10-25 01:00
  Seem fine to me, since I rarely rep people, so I usually get the message I need to spread more rep around...
• Conor wrote on 2011-10-25 01:03

  Quote from Zeo;634337:

  Maybe it's just me... but I do not approve this idea. It'd only make specific users get even more rep now. :/

  
  
  The people that spam-rep others are probably going to rep random people anyways in order to do it so0o0 it's really not changing anything other than convenience.
• TA wrote on 2011-10-25 01:10
  Me personally, I don't rep people because I like them. I post people who post things that are funny, useful, etc. I'd rep regardless who posted it.
• Adelynn wrote on 2011-10-25 01:11

  Quote from Zeo;634337:

  Maybe it's just me... but I do not approve this idea. It'd only make specific users get even more rep now. :/

  
  
  People that get repped get it for a reason.
  
  Personally I don't like the idea of having to rep someone else so that I can rep someone who deserves it again.
• Zeo wrote on 2011-10-25 01:20

  Quote from Xemnas;634362:

  people get rep if they deserve it.

  
  
  Maybe, but that's not always the case, there's actually some people who just spam-rep the certain users.
  
  

  Quote from Lilith;634364:

  Why does it matter to you how much rep a user has? Honestly it seems you disagree with anything that you feel gives anyone else something that you don't have, or have the same amount of.
  
  If someone wants to rep someone because they find something funny or useful, etc. They should be able to rep them without having to give a bunch of pointless rep elsewhere, this idea makes good use of that.

  
  
  If that's the case, set the timer to at least a week instead of three days so that way, users won't gain too much rep. I do disagree with lot of the things, what is wrong with that though?
  
  

  Quote from Conor;634371:

  The people that spam-rep others are probably going to rep random people anyways in order to do it so0o0 it's really not changing anything other than convenience.

  
  
  It's not that hard to find random people to rep around, there's many posts here that you may find funny, or helpful but haven't repped them yet, like many people here acted it to be.
  
  

  Quote from TA;634385:

  Me personally, I don't rep people because I like them.

  
  
  To be honest, that is actually my biggest issue with the rep system, we have some users that just spam the rep button on certain users just because they liked it.