Uh-oh...

[Don McRitchie]

Don, I couldn't see what you wrote, but noticed you signed it "Giskard". Voter fraud!!

So I gather the original poster does not see the comments left by a dinker? I haven't seen any and you indicate that you did not see mine. I'll have to investigate just where they go (just out of curiousity). So far I agree with your original assessment that this feature has the potential for more harm than good, particularly if the poster has no idea by whom and why they were dinked. I'll likely end up turning this feature off forever shortly.

[boputnam]

So I gather the original poster does not see the comments left by a dinker?

No, I confused you in attempted humor.

I cannot see the ratings anywhere. The only change has been my parking pass no longer works at the garage...

Back to dinkin'!! Whoo-woo...!!!

[Don C]

If you hover your mouse pointer over the little colored dot on the left you can see a rating.

[4313B]

You just got a dink for being helpful Don

[John Nebel]

"boputnam has a little shameless behaviour in the past"



how true!



view source lets one see all the alt tags at once

[johnaec]

"Dinking" related, from Sunday's newspaper...

[Don C]

You just got dinked for payback Giskard.

[Alex Lancaster]

So how do You know how many dinks each one has?

[boputnam]

"boputnam has a little shameless behaviour in the past"

Dink-o-rama!!

"boputnam has a reputation beyond repute"

And NO ONE is touching my L100's!!

[Don McRitchie]

And watch Giskard try to undink himself from the starting position I just assigned him. The title seems quite appropriate.

As you can tell, I'm playing around with these settings to see what they do. So far, I have found that the individual dinkings shows up in your "User CP" with the comments. There are all kinds of rule settings to gain reputation without actually having someone dink you positively. Still investigating.........

[boputnam]

And watch Giskard try to undink himself from the starting position I just assigned him. The title seems quite appropriate.

Double-dink!!

[4313B]

This reputation thingie reminds me of the computer game "Dark Lands".

Infamous isn't so bad

Is that the worst I can be though? There has to be something worse!

[Don McRitchie]

You can set the terminology and point assignments to whatever you want. Right now, Giskard is at the worst level

I have pretty much figured out how the system works and will be turning it off for the time being. I'll post a report a bit later on regarding what I've discovered. It is actually well thought out, with a number of measures to prevent abuse. However, I'll leave it to the members to determine if it actally has merit for subsequent use once I have posted the description.

[boputnam]

Oddly, it is global. It would have perhaps some utility if it were Thread (or post) specific - but even there, in negative usage as I've seen on other Forums, things can get (really) contentious, and if someone's having a crummy day, it can stain them for life. I don't understand the need.

Leave it gone. We could re-instate "block" - that leaves the dispute between members.

[John Nebel]

Oddly, it is global. It would have perhaps some utility if it were Thread (or post) specific - but even there, in negative usage as I've seen on other Forums, things can get (really) contentious, and if someone's having a crummy day, it can stain them for life. I don't understand the need.

Leave it gone. We could re-instate "block" - that leaves the dispute between members.

Bo,

If those who aren't bothered about insults, ie. just about everyone here, misuse this thing properly, it would be great fun shameless one.

John