Little Green Box Under Post Count?

[MarkoD]

Originally Posted by fishoholic

Yes, if you agree with someones post you can add reputation points to that person by clicking on the scales and clicking that you agree with their post. Or you can do the opposite by disagreeing.

this seems like its going to cause a lot of problems

[Aquattro]

I still don't even know what it means!! Everyone has a green dot. woohoo. Now what?? I'm supposed to trust buying something from someone because they have a green dot? If they're bad, does it turn red? By default everyone has a green dot. sigh.....

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

I still don't even know what it means!! Everyone has a green dot. woohoo. Now what?? I'm supposed to trust buying something from someone because they have a green dot? If they're bad, does it turn red? By default everyone has a green dot. sigh.....

Ya it's different, I guess if enough people had issues with someone they would hopefully all give them negative points and you would know to avoid that person?

[Leah]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

I still don't even know what it means!! Everyone has a green dot. woohoo. Now what?? I'm supposed to trust buying something from someone because they have a green dot? If they're bad, does it turn red? By default everyone has a green dot. sigh.....

You have a spectacular aura...huh! Somethings very fishy here.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by fishoholic

Ya it's different, I guess if enough people had issues with someone they would hopefully all give them negative points and you would know to avoid that person?

A bit late at that point, I'm thinkin'..

I'll stick to the old method. If you have less than 2 post counts, I'm going to be careful sending you money..

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Leah

You have a spectacular aura...huh! Somethings very fishy here.

That may be artificially inflated.....

[Leah]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

That may be artificially inflated.....

Is that what she said?

[MarkoD]

Originally Posted by Leah

Is that what she said?

+ rep for that

Ugh won't work on iPhone

[lastlight]

If current trends continue I won't be allowed to sell my crap anymore lol. The ole rep is takin hits!

[mike31154]

A bit analogous of the original eBay rating system. They have since changed it so buyers can't be given negative feedback, so sellers are at buyer's mercy with little opportunity for a response if the buyer is full of it.

So who enabled the feature here in the first place & why, no heads up to forum members? Took a schmuck like me to bring up the subject. I still haven't been able to change anything since I'm unable to find any options on it.

I've seen other forums where a similar feature is used, but it's the text under your avatar/forum handle, where this board shows "junior member" or "member". These seem primarily dependent on post count, so as your count rises, the text changes accordingly, to something like "very respected member" or even "moved on" if the person is given the boot.