BreOl72: Erm, I'm pretty sure you're either confusing things here, or maybe we talk past each other...?
What I meant was:
it took 5 to 10 people clicking on the (-) to mark a comment as "low rated"
(see attachment).
Contrary to what you seem to believe, a single click from a single user on the (-) didn't do anything (
besides hiding the comment for the person clicking the (-) button).
Once that mark ("low rated") was reached, the loss of REP began. Timboli: Can you tell me where you got that information from?
From my experience, and I paid pretty close attention when I posted in a thread where every post was downvoted, a few seconds after I posted (not always the case), my post was downvoted, showed 'low rated' and my REP went down by one. I did this by refreshing the page until it happened. In many instances it was basically immediate or close enough.
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A few things first:
- I still think we may talk past each other somehow, since what you wrote, basically confirms what I have written (
and what you have quoted)
- I never was so obsessed with my REP that I repeatedly hammered F5, only to see if and/or how my REP changed
- for the sake of this demonstration, we assume that 5 was the magic number to reach "low rated" status, ok?
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Now, here's my
(layman's) explanation for how
I (!) understand the REP system to work (
or rather: how it has been working):
Let's say you (
I use "you" as a general term here, not necessarily meaning you personally) wrote a comment, which I found to be worthy of my (-) click.
I would have clicked on the (-) and two things would have happened:
1) your comment would have been hidden from my view, and
2) some invisible counter inside GOG's forum software would have sprung from 0 to 1.
Nothing else would have happened.
Now let's further assume, you didn't stop at one comment, but made five (
or more) trollish/inflammatory/offensive comments on that same day.
And no: it doesn't matter if you saw 'em that way - it's enough if I saw 'em that way.
You may have made these comments all in the same thread, or in five (
or more) different threads, or two here, two there, and one (
or more) in a third thread.
Doesn't matter.
Assuming I saw all these comments, and I found them all worthy of my (-) click, I would have clicked the (-) on all of them, and still - nothing would have happened, that hadn't had happened before:
1) your comment gets hidden,
2) the invisible counter under each of your comments, springs from 0 to 1.
That's all.
I'm happy now, because I don't have to see your crappy comment(s) anymore - and you are none the wiser about it.
Now...the two of us are not the only users here in the forums, of course.
So, let's say one, or two, or even all of your comments attracted the attention of 4 (or more) other users beside me.
And all of these users disliked them in the same way (
if maybe for different reasons) as I did.
If they all clicked the (-) button next to your comment(s) - something else beside simply hiding your post from their view would happen.
Because now, the invisible counter under each of your comments, inside GOG's forum software, would have sprung from 1 to 2, then from 2 to 3, from 3 to 4 and from 4 to 5, etc...
And that (
reaching 5 on the counter) would have triggered two (
make that three) new (
well one old - two new) reactions:
1) your comment(s) would have been hidden for every user clicking on the (-), and
2) your comment(s) would have been marked "low rated"
3) you would have lost your first REP point(s)
I cannot comment on the speed with which your REP points would have decreased from that point on, though I'm somewhat sure they didn't decrease by 5 at once.
I'm basing this statement on my own experience with my comments getting "low rated".
Mind you - like I said, I wasn't that obsessed with that number that I would have frantically checked the rate of loss.
Timboli: For what you claim to be true, [...] a bunch [...] of members would have to have downvoted me immediately ... hardly likely. Mhm,...and why exactly is that "hardly likely"?
Because all your comments are pure wisdom, that nobody on earth could ever possibly disagree with?
As I have already written in other posts:
this is a public forum, that grants access to everyone who ever bothered to create an account here, and that is open 24/7 during all 52 weeks of the year.
Covered by all 24 time zones.
That means, there are always hundreds, if not thousands, of users reading the threads in this forum - the vast majority without
(ever) actively contributing - exactly as in any other forum on this planet.
Even if you don't agree with such high numbers (
may I ask: what would be your "more realistic" assumption?), may I remind you that all it took for your comment(s) to get "low rated", was 5 (!) users disagreeing with you.
You're also not agreeing with the "5"?
Well, make it "10" then - doesn't matter.
For what it's worth make it "20" or "30"...doesn't matter either.
Because there are at any given time enough users online here, to be able to tag any comment(s) that they may disagree with, with the "low rated" label.
And that for any given comprehensible reason (
and some probably not so comprehensible ones).
That's a fact.
You
(and many others here) don't like that fact - I get that.
But unlike "alternative facts" - for real facts, it doesn't matter if you like them, or not.
They stay facts nonetheless.
