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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Ken Cole: Quote:
They're for gifts. If you know someone who collects DVDs and doesn't have DVD Profiler yet, you can buy a registration for them. You get a pretty voucher to print/email to the recipient.
They receive the gift, thank you profusely for your generosity and good taste, then visit our site, enter the voucher ID, and receive their registration key, program download, and new account, as needed. I'll be sure to use these.. Ken...  | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 3,321 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Rifter: Quote:
The point I was trying to make is that we should all have the personal honor and integrity to avoid such behavior, and to back down when we do step over the line, without having to have the threat of sanctions forcing us to behave a certain way. That's very true John. Unfortunately, experience has shown that we don't all act the way we should. I'd rather have this system than the previous chaos. | | | Get the CSVExport and Database Query plug-ins here.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Rifter: Quote:
The point I was trying to make is that we should all have the personal honor and integrity to avoid such behavior, and to back down when we do step over the line, without having to have the threat of sanctions forcing us to behave a certain way. You are correct, we all should have the personal honor and integrity to avoid such behavior. The problem is, honor and integrity are subjective and the worst offenders, more often than not, believe they have done nothing wrong. Censorship is about supressing ideas and opinions. That is not censorship. Everybody is free to express their ideas and opinions. All the reputation system does is force them to do it in a civil manner. I don't see a problem with that. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Unicus69: Quote:
Censorship is about supressing ideas and opinions. That is not censorship. Everybody is free to express their ideas and opinions. All the reputation system does is force them to do it in a civil manner. I don't see a problem with that. Agreed. |
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| Registered: August 22, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,807 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Dr. Killpatient: Quote:
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Censorship is about supressing ideas and opinions. That is not censorship. Everybody is free to express their ideas and opinions. All the reputation system does is force them to do it in a civil manner. I don't see a problem with that.
Agreed. I agree as well. The only thing I am not very happy with is that this system compares apples with pears, so to speak. Edit: or apples and oranges, if you will  You could receive a positive rating for a technically helpful message, then a negative rating for calling names to someone, and oddly enough you would end up even.  | | | | -- Enry | | | | Last edited: by White Pongo, Jr. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 2,366 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting EnryWiki: Quote:
You could receive a positive rating for a technically helpful message, then a negative rating for calling names to someone, and oddly enough you would end up even. I do not think it works this way. You can give 5 positive and 3 negative points a day. And it would not surprise me if this is also the average ratio that handles the balance of ones reputation. What I mean is that you need 5 positive points to outweigh 3 negative points. | | | Martin Zuidervliet
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 585 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting EnryWiki: Quote:
You could receive a positive rating for a technically helpful message, then a negative rating for calling names to someone, and oddly enough you would end up even. Theoretically true, but I think more than likely you can expect maybe a couple positive votes for a helpful post but if you start calling someone names or other negative behavior you'll likely pick up a whole slew of negative votes which will quickly out pace and over run any previous postive votes someone might have gotten. | | | "Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men" - Douglas Bader
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 2,005 |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting TomGaines: Quote:
Wouldn't have a simple "report post to moderator" link sufficed?  Gah - there you go oversimplifying things! You never worked in politics, have you?  Edited to add disclaimer: This is a joke  | | | | Last edited: by Dr. Killpatient |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 460 |
| | Posted: | | | | DR. Killpatient.. you'll might get a negative feedback for that  I was wondering can only users with a full dvdprofiler rate members? | | | | Jean-Paul |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,804 |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | Of course it's too soon to say but maybe there isn't a real need for anything higher than a single gold star. With the normalizing process of dropping votes older than 30 days, it strikes me that someone would have to post a lot of posts that get rated positively in order to even get two stars. Over time once the novelty wears off, people will start voting less and less with the exception of voting negative. Plus, I think four gold stars next to my name would make the whole thing wrap messy like. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,480 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting JP_S: Quote:
I was wondering can only users with a full dvdprofiler rate members? Yes. From the first post: Quote:
- Rating posts is open to all paid user accounts, limited to 5 positive, 3 negative per day.
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| Registered: August 22, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,807 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting TomGaines: Quote:
Wouldn't have a simple "report post to moderator" link sufficed? That would call for having a moderator, while a Reputation System is semi-automatic | | | | -- Enry | | | | Last edited: by White Pongo, Jr. |
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| Registered: August 22, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,807 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Dr. Killpatient: Quote:
Over time once the novelty wears off, people will start voting less and less with the exception of voting negative. On some other systems that use a reputation system, I see users going on voting positive more than negative. Well, of course that also depends on behaviors | | | | -- Enry | | | | Last edited: by White Pongo, Jr. |
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| Registered: August 22, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,807 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Martin_Zuidervliet: Quote:
And it would not surprise me if this is also the average ratio that handles the balance of ones reputation. What I mean is that you need 5 positive points to outweigh 3 negative points. I didn't think of that! You might be right. Only Ken knows! | | | | -- Enry |
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