Reputation Reminders

[Mister Underhill]

Yeah, it'd probably be a matter of tracking down good code in a forum that works and popping it in where it doesn't work, but that's a job of its own.

Right-clicking (in Windows) and opening a new tab or window will work for reputation, but it doesn't help with some of the drop-downs like "Thread Tools", which is an occasional pain in the rear.

[Lalwendë]

Right-o! Some interesting advice there! Cheers! I'll give some of this a go, though there's no right click on this iBook thingie I'll also make a note of which area of the forum any odd things happen on if that helps.

At least it seems it's not something weird that's happening, just an odd code on certain parts of the forum.

[Aganzir]

I've noticed it happens only when a thread (or the Active Topics section) is longer than one page.
I have Ubuntu Linux & use both Opera and Firefox.

[Beregond]

Originally Posted by Mister Underhill

Right-clicking (in Windows) and opening a new tab or window will work for reputation, but it doesn't help with some of the drop-downs like "Thread Tools", which is an occasional pain in the rear.

When I did that, the thread tools were on the bottom of the page - I had to scroll down to the end of the thread. Weird, but it was there.

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

Right-o! Some interesting advice there! Cheers! I'll give some of this a go, though there's no right click on this iBook thingie

Can you Ctrl-Click (or whatever the equivalent Mac key is)?

Originally Posted by Aganzir

I've noticed it happens only when a thread (or the Active Topics section) is longer than one page.
I have Ubuntu Linux & use both Opera and Firefox.

Yay for Ubuntu!

[Ibrîniðilpathânezel]

My ability to rep comes and goes. Doesn't care which browser I'm using, doesn't care if I'm on a PC or a Mac or on a Linux box. I have no idea why. I can click on the rep widget, and sometimes the box opens up, and sometimes nothing happens at all. When nothing happens at all, I test it by trying to rep someone I repped recently. The thing then promptly tells me I can't rep them again so soon, but when I go back and try to rep the person I really want to rep at the time, nothing still happens. A day or two later, I can, if I can remember the post I wanted to rep. I'm not a frequent user of the rep system, so I don't imagine I'm overusing it, but this gets to be a tad frustrating when it happens and I really, really want to rep someone, but can't. Hrmph.

[Hakon]

Is there a time limit in between giving rep? Like if you give rep to one person, are you required to wait a certain amount of time before you can give rep to another person?

Also on a side note, I am going to figure out which one of you kept giving me negative rep.

[Boromir88]

Not a time-limit, but a wight-limit you might call it. You have to rep a certain amount of different members before you rep a person again. I'm not sure how many it is though.

Don't let the negative reps get to you, they are usually always anonymous. There is no requirement to leave your name, but if a person can't stand by what they said, and write who they are, well I always think it's not all that important anyway. If it was a big deal, the person will not be anonymous, or would just send you a PM.

I remember many negative reps for vague and various reasons, but the only one I truly remember was from the one person who left her name. I can still tell you the comment to this day (but will keep it private ), I didn't agree with the reasons, but got the point. All the other anonymous ones I've gotten...mean nothing to me. *shrug*

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Hakon

Is there a time limit in between giving rep? Like if you give rep to one person, are you required to wait a certain amount of time before you can give rep to another person?

I think it's something like 10 (or twelve) reps in any 24 hours - and (about the ) same thing with repping the same person (like ten other reps before you can rep the same person again).

Also on a side note, I am going to figure out which one of you kept giving me negative rep.

That's an age old discussion. The possibility of neg-repping is good to have around but it really should be used only with the really abrasive, malvolent or other offensive posts. Let's be fair: we're different people here with different backgrounds, ages, experiences, ideologies, beliefs etc. We should tolerate each other when we disagree and try to see the good sides of each other - and no one of us is so wise and learned that one could just wipe away any other thoughts on subjects discussed here.

It is nice that when someone reps you they also add their name into the end of the rep so that you can see who liked your post / effort in a game, whatever... but it should be required that the person neg-repping you would stand behind his/her act to make him/herself known as well! I don't know if that has ever been discussed with the B-W, that there should be a tag on the neg-reps required by the system so that you would know where they come from even if the sender of the neg-rep wouldn't her/himself make that actively known...