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As the title says. Would someone clarify this for me. Just curious, Am i doing something wrong?
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Melvinica: As the title says. Would someone clarify this for me. Just curious, Am i doing something wrong?
Probably one of your posts is getting low ratings or something.

Here is what GoG FAQ say on rep: (source)

5. What is this “rep” thing on the forums?
Rep is the user's reputation rating, showing how respected and well-known you are in the community. You can quickly estimate a user's rep by looking at the number of stars next to their rep value. Getting one or two stars is fairly easy, while five stars is a serious achievement. Those who earn maximum reputation can expect some kind of nice bonus (surprise, surprise! :).There is a number of ways you can earn and improve your rep, including actively spending time on the GOG.com forums (no, that doesn't include spamming), receiving lots of positive ratings for your posts or simply helping other users (this can earn you lots of rep!). On the other hand, ignoring posting guidelines and rules is a simple way to lose tons of rep points (depending on how severe the violation was). Also, getting lots of negative feedback in a short time will cost you some rep points.

Hope it helps.
Post edited December 18, 2013 by IndicaHybrid
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Melvinica: As the title says. Would someone clarify this for me. Just curious, Am i doing something wrong?
It's magic!

Seriously. The rep system is so fickle that you might get downrepped because someone doesn't like your avatar or name. Just ignore it like everybody else with half a brain.
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Melvinica: As the title says. Would someone clarify this for me. Just curious, Am i doing something wrong?
Sometimes, when others don't like what you say, they may click the "minus" button they can see on the upper right corner of your post.

that or they're mean\do not like you & click it no matter what you put to pixels
Thanks guys. I'll try to ignore it and see about my life then. I'll mark the first post as a solution but thank you all.
Post edited December 18, 2013 by Melvinica
its probably just some digital vigilantes
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It went like this:

One day, GOG stuff was thinking of cool things to implement. Suggestions contained things like an optional client, friedns list, hosting popular MP games sold here on GOG servers, Linux support. As the evening turned to night and more and more empty bottles of booze were piling up on the floor, an employee I'm not going to name here came forward and said:
"Guy... *hic*, guys, g...guys, I know!"
The rest of the present staff, well those who were still conscious, turned to the bold speaker. When one of them opened his mouth, bits of food and alcohol came out. This short speech could be translated as: "ABANDON THE SHIP!" - our unnamed hero didn't quite know this, because he's had too much trouble just focusing on a single point in spacetime continuum, let alone read thoughts of bacteria in his colleague's stomach. Thankfully, certain other employee wasn't quite as touched by the event as he was quite used to having extremely low blood percentage amongst all the alcohol, so he actually managed to say: "Whhhhhhha is it, Judas?" A couple of mice who happened to run about three feet away from his mouth died during the occasion.
"I've got an idea!" Now as we all know, that's most certainly not a sentence you want to hear from a drunken man. If they ended up peeing form nearby bridge on passing cars, that would be fine and dandy, but something far worse came out of his mouth: "We should... We should create a reputation system! You know, our regular posters will get points and they will be all happy! But, we should also introduce button to reduce the reputation, and make the entire system completely pointless so people are bugged by it completely needlessly." In his enthusiasm, his tongue forgot that it should be far less agile.

Suddenly, silence prevailed. A tumbleweed rolled trough the room and melted upon contact with the pool created by the first employee 'speaking'. A goat spontaneusly combusted in Germany.

When this brief period ended, the second employee stood up and said: "Make it happen!" to the present team of programmers. As he turned out to be out hero's boss, he swiftly added: "And give this man a promotion!"

In the morning of the following day, two programmers woke up, sleeping at their keyboards. Their eyes widened in fear as they saw The Code, written under the influence of strong beverages, incomprehensible to a mere mortal. And the forums... Suddenly contained rep system. For the longest time, everyone avoided The Code, until management decided that the rep system causes more harm than it does good. We all know what followed upon the attempt to remove The Code. The histotic event is known as "The great GOG shutdown of 2010"
Post edited December 18, 2013 by Fenixp
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Fenixp: It went like this:

One day, GOG stuff was thinking of cool things to implement. Suggestions contained things like an optional client, friedns list, hosting popular MP games sold here on GOG servers, Linux support. As the evening turned to night and more and more empty bottles of booze were piling up on the floor, an employee I'm not going to name here came forward and said:
"Guy... *hic*, guys, g...guys, I know!"
The rest of the present staff, well those who were still conscious, turned to the bold speaker. When one of them opened his mouth, bits of food and alcohol came out. This short speech could be translated as: "ABANDON THE SHIP!" - our unnamed hero didn't quite know this, because he's had too much trouble just focusing on a single point in spacetime continuum, let alone read thoughts of bacteria in his colleague's stomach. Thankfully, certain other employee wasn't quite as touched by the event as he was quite used to having extremely low blood percentage amongst all the alcohol, so he actually managed to say: "Whhhhhhha is it, Judas?" A couple of mice who happened to run about three feet away from his mouth died during the occasion.
"I've got an idea!" Now as we all know, that's most certainly not a sentence you want to hear from a drunken man. If they ended up peeing form nearby bridge on passing cars, that would be fine and dandy, but something far worse came out of his mouth: "We should... We should create a reputation system! You know, our regular posters will get points and they will be all happy! But, we should also introduce button to reduce the reputation, and make the entire system completely pointless so people are bugged by it completely needlessly." In his enthusiasm, his tongue forgot that it should be far less agile.

Suddenly, silence prevailed. A tumbleweed rolled trough the room and melted upon contact with the pool created by the first employee 'speaking'. A goat spontaneusly combusted in Germany.

When this brief period ended, the second employee stood up and said: "Make it happen!" to the present team of programmers. As he turned out to be out hero's boss, he swiftly added: "And give this man a promotion!"

In the morning of the following day, two programmers woke up, sleeping at their keyboards. Their eyes widened in fear as they saw The Code, written under the influence of strong beverages, incomprehensible to a mere mortal. And the forums... Suddenly contained rep system. For the longest time, everyone avoided The Code, until management decided that the rep system causes more harm than it does good. We all know what followed upon the attempt to remove the code. The histotic event is known as "The great GOG shutdown of 2010"
This is as good as it gets and very believable too. Thanks man. :)
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Fenixp: <snip>
+1


:P
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Melvinica: This is as good as it gets and very believable too. Thanks man. :)
Yeah, that's how EVERY brainstorming looks like. Right? ... Right?
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Melvinica: This is as good as it gets and very believable too. Thanks man. :)
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Fenixp: Yeah, that's how EVERY brainstorming looks like. Right? ... Right?
Well, I think it will be true for this venue.
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Fenixp: It went like this:

One day, GOG stuff was thinking of cool things to implement. Suggestions contained things like an optional client, friedns list, hosting popular MP games sold here on GOG servers, Linux support. As the evening turned to night and more and more empty bottles of booze were piling up on the floor, an employee I'm not going to name here came forward and said:
"Guy... *hic*, guys, g...guys, I know!"
The rest of the present staff, well those who were still conscious, turned to the bold speaker. When one of them opened his mouth, bits of food and alcohol came out. This short speech could be translated as: "ABANDON THE SHIP!" - our unnamed hero didn't quite know this, because he's had too much trouble just focusing on a single point in spacetime continuum, let alone read thoughts of bacteria in his colleague's stomach. Thankfully, certain other employee wasn't quite as touched by the event as he was quite used to having extremely low blood percentage amongst all the alcohol, so he actually managed to say: "Whhhhhhha is it, Judas?" A couple of mice who happened to run about three feet away from his mouth died during the occasion.
"I've got an idea!" Now as we all know, that's most certainly not a sentence you want to hear from a drunken man. If they ended up peeing form nearby bridge on passing cars, that would be fine and dandy, but something far worse came out of his mouth: "We should... We should create a reputation system! You know, our regular posters will get points and they will be all happy! But, we should also introduce button to reduce the reputation, and make the entire system completely pointless so people are bugged by it completely needlessly." In his enthusiasm, his tongue forgot that it should be far less agile.

Suddenly, silence prevailed. A tumbleweed rolled trough the room and melted upon contact with the pool created by the first employee 'speaking'. A goat spontaneusly combusted in Germany.

When this brief period ended, the second employee stood up and said: "Make it happen!" to the present team of programmers. As he turned out to be out hero's boss, he swiftly added: "And give this man a promotion!"

In the morning of the following day, two programmers woke up, sleeping at their keyboards. Their eyes widened in fear as they saw The Code, written under the influence of strong beverages, incomprehensible to a mere mortal. And the forums... Suddenly contained rep system. For the longest time, everyone avoided The Code, until management decided that the rep system causes more harm than it does good. We all know what followed upon the attempt to remove The Code. The histotic event is known as "The great GOG shutdown of 2010"
Hey! How about more tales from old good days??? Maybe a thread to talk exclusive about it?
Posting threads about rep usually results in big amounts of downrepping, largely done by forum users for s&g.
Yeah rep has been a hot topic from time to time. I ignore it to be honest. If someone hates you for the smallest of things expect to get downrepped into oblivion.
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Melvinica: This is as good as it gets and very believable too. Thanks man. :)
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Fenixp: Yeah, that's how EVERY brainstorming looks like. Right? ... Right?
No. Because... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ8TjY5WebY