have you people noticed the judgement
 

scales and green boxes under your avatars????
A question to moderators: what does this all mean? Are we being judged by somebody? if so, why?

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It's OK. Don't worry. Now that Gareth is the admin in charge here, we've noticed he's been tweaking the forum settings a little bit. vBulletin has a lot of features you can turn off and on. I don't expect to see him back on the forum for another 10 or 12 hours.

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I point at my little green box and it says "sammytray on a distinguished road" :roftl:

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It is a forum feature whereby you can give "kudos" to a poster for his or her post.

The problem starts because you can also leave negative feedback and it was disabled because back in the early days of the forum it was being abused in incredibly nasty ways.

Perhaps the current moderators have decided that now we are subscription, the likelihood of abuse is reduced and it can be renabled.

A..

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So Karen.. how does it work?

Ive clicked on the scales for a few people who have made great posts and clicked "I approve". Nothing changed.

Is it something like 'every 10 approvals earns a new green box or something'?

I see how this could lead to a unbalanced forum.. certain people suddenly being more important and others feeling left out or unloved.

Prepared to give it a go for a while, but I see how it could be abused potentially.

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As some of you have no doubt noticed and commented on, you now see, once again, a green icon below a posters name.

The forums user reputation system has been re-enabled. It provides a way of rating users based on the quality of their posts. Users on the forum can add or subtract reputation points from other users by clicking the reputation link in their posts.

User reputations allow the users in this community to tell the forum which users are quality and which users are not. At a glance you can see the reputation a poster has gained in their time in the forum.

Good posters will gain reputation - bad ones will go the other way. So you know before you post a reply how good the reputation of the poster is.

The hope is the reputation system will encourage good quality posts :thumb_yello: and discourage the bad.:thumbdown:

Regards
Gareth
Project Avalon Administrator

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I have no idea how it works. I'll have to learn. And I see no scales - is that because I use Firefox?

I don't think there was any moderator feedback on this - Gareth just decided we could give it a go again, and hope it is not abused like it was last time. I missed all that happened last time as I was not yet a moderator.

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:winksmiley02:And here I thought only God could judge????

I think we are all adult enough to decide a quality post for ourselves, it almost seems like some form of censorship. Isn't rating threads adequate for content worth checking out sufficient?

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If I remember right they were removed for a good reason. Because people would abuse it, and do it anonymously. I think we're all past looking at little green boxes to determine a level of quality, or lack of. The reputation thing was removed and should stay that way. It's much to elementary.

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i realy do not like it at all !!!!

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Hi
I was about to make my first post for many months. The first thing I became aware of was that I started policing my thoughts instead of just pouring it out of my heart.
The "green box feature" feels bad, and should be removed IMO

Please don´t rate me as a bad poster for writing this... (see what I mean? :mad3: )
Well, it´s nice to be back on the forum, though
Hugs to all Avalonians :huglove:

/Metaphor

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Every since these changes, my Xmen thread ,is kicked to the back of the forum ,:lightsabre:any time someone post on it.:lightsabre: :sneaky2:

:lol3::lmfao::lmfao:

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We could all just agree on IGNORING this little silly green box in the corner, and go on with business as usual. Its up to us if we use it or not.

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I realy dont like this idea at all !!

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Your thread seems OK now. :original:

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:eyes: Repeat after me: there is no ****ty little green box, there is no little green box, there is no box, there is no, there is , there, th..., ... zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
when I snap my fingers, you are awake and there is no box, in fact there is nothing at all. You took the blue pill and wake up in your bed and it was all just a dream. The world is like it should be, go on with your life.
:eyes:

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:lmao:

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I respectfully suggest that all changes to the forum set-up being anticipated by the Administrator should be announced to the forum ahead of time with the reasons for the change stated, and that our input should be solicited, before the change is made...

If that is too much to ask, at least announce to the forum that the change is being made and why...

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I have 15 points whatever that means :blink:
And on minty style it's a heart not a scale :)

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Where do points show?

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Click on your scales or heart

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aha, and we all should sit inside the green box, don't dare to stick your head out:lightsabre:

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welcome to Circus Avalon...yeah,,,,give it to me baby...lalalalalalalalal.....

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:naughty:

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Let's see if I can be the first non-green poster :naughty:
I'm green too (----). What have you got to do to be anything else?
Oh well!

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I think they're still working on it.

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So now the scale the judge is judging your judgment on how , when, and where you judge:lmao::lmao: Remember to
judge as you are told.:lol3: Did you get points deducted for this lack of judgment on your part :mfr_omg: I feel it is just setting people up for division and self censoring. I feel strongly about censoring the scales as antiquated relics of duality and strife.:trumpet::trumpet::trumpet::tongue2:

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and ...by the way...whose idea was it?:yikes:

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I believe I know who's idea it was to remove it!
And it starts with a K

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To remove what?What has been removed?

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:thumb_yello:

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:thumb_yello:

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I was wondering what the green dot meant, and was trying to find the answer in the forum rules, when I noticed this thread!

I really hope that the voices of Avalon are heard, and taken in consideration.

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Seems your not allowed to be too nice

:sad:

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To remove the reputation thing, when it was removed along time ago. I think it was Kerry's idea. It should be removed again!

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now i remember, thanks.

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Not it's not because of Firefox, it is because I use the Minty forum skin. I see a heart instead of scales.

Default is Avalon Electric. If you want something cooler on the eyes Minty is the way to go. If you can't read the lighter colored type in Minty, just select the area, then you can read it. The button is on the bottom left. To switch back the button moves to the bottom right.