I was trying to find a relevant post you made a week or two ago, but as I cannot, I'll just post the image relevant to your relevance that I cannot find relevant to the topic at hand.

Thank you old bean. Goodness me. "A boy that looks like a pretty lady" whoever heard of such a thing? My word, in good ole Blighty men are men.

Except for ice and ballroom dancers, in which case the line is a little blurred.

Well it's clear to me that "Rep is dead". The trolls are de-repping
1) old GA posts where people were simply thanking the gifted,
2) the ninja thread about 100 to GOG knows when pages back (yeah, some people have been going back and trying to undo the "damage"), and
3) the even less well-known or recognized but insidious "Old posts where a post is low-rated and then uprated just enough to make the affected member lose rep while not showing a low-rating".

Rep is dead. GOG set up a system that could be "gamed" by trolls. That part is pretty clear. So first, let's start ignoring rep since the system is broken - badly broken. As human beings we need to start using our words when we're upset with another forum member.

I'd highly suggest using the PM-system first and foremost. Attempt to settle your difference with another forum member privately. After all, publicly calling out a newbie for taking too many games in the ninja thread is a common occurrence - a nice PM explaining how that behavior is frowned upon can easily solve the problem without making that new member a pariah...

Secondly, if you cannot resolve an issue privately, then contact support for help - let GOG actually do something for a change.

Thirdly, maybe we need a place for forum members to air their differences and let the community vote. Not sure how this would work but each person needs an advocate, especially if English is not their first language.

Next Issue, let's stop feeding trolls with free-range code drops - hence MAHAYO...(make a human answer you)

1) no free games for lurkers that don't even have to be a member . Try to understand that GOG posts are available to anyone and everyone on the internet - one does not have to be a member to see those free codes... All they have to do is program a bot to snatch codes out of the ninja thread and other well-known code drop threads.

2) for people who are members but just lurk to snatch games, this system actually makes them post to ask for a game and thusly they either become valuable forum members or become known as scammers just here for free games.

Lastly, it takes new members a while to get the "unspoken" rules of the forum - let's try to codify those rules. We have some good bones for that already but by sending every new member the link when they join and by expanding those rules to include info such as "ninja-thread - cool place to get free games but this is not a candy store - be polite, don't be greedy..etc..", we help new members become integrated quicker instead of feeling alienated.

Ultimately, since the rep system is being gamed by whomever, by ignoring rep, those that are members upset with whatever they are upset with will actually need to post their displeasure about their issues instead of silently de-repping everyone on their hate list.

So yeah, let's act like human beings and MAHAYO to since rep no longer functions the way GOG intended - ignore it and only base your interactions on the forum by the content of a member's posts.

How on earth do I have rep?!! Please, answer me.

Does anyone have the Cliff Notes for Momo's post? :P

Yes but his handwriting is unreadable.

It just occurred to me most of this forum is too young to know what Cliff Notes are. How frightening.

*points at handjobs for gog codes sign
**points at tinyE

Oh come on! I get derepped a lot now but when I first joined I was on fire. People were bitching and moaning that I went from 0 to 100 in about a week. Then I made fun of a dead movie critic and it's been all downhill, just like with Napoleon.

Hey now, don't sell yourself short. I'm sure you can make a comeback again. :D

The tinyE comeback tour, coming to a state fair near you!....?

Negative rep requires you being a beggar/annoying person or you being targeted by someone with a handful of accounts. The former is an easy boat ride across for reasonable minded folk. The latter can happen to anyone and nothing could be done about it. It's a broken system that won't get fixed anytime soon.

Also, you don't need money to get games/extra games. You can grind for them in other ways. It's just that GOG games require money and so you need to trade for some directly or indirectly. ^^

I'm pretty old, and I don't know what they are.

Cliff's Notes now, those little booklets I remember. :>p

Not that I ever used any of them or anything, I just observed others using them during my four years of college. *cough* *cough*

(Just messing with ya, almost everyone gets it "technically" wrong, to the point that I think now "technically" Cliff Notes is accepted. But they are, or at least were, "Cliff's Notes.")

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