Akria

Indeed. Posts which abuse another member, for example, or contribute nothing useful to the discussion.

We can also but hope that people will also give positive reputation points to good posts in topics, whether they happen to be in agreement with the views or not.

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Frith

If only people could discipline themselves to do this, Akria! It is so very important to a civilized world view that one can appreciate the positive qualities of another without necessarily agreeing.

As you have these ideas already in situ in your toolbox of critical values then if I were your teacher I'd be very optimistic about your future forays into critical theory.

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I am hoping that it will reward members who make strong positive contributions in terms of finding interesting news items and submitting solid policy/political analysis

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Might be a good idea to take away the function that minuses rep points.

BTW, I have already received a rep point. (to everyone). I can't tell who it's from though.

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H, on this forum the content is the politics.

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Percentage

Exactly!

Seems like a childish exercise to me,there's enough words in the english language to extol what someone feels is a good post,just as there is to describe a negative one,or for that matter to extol the virtues of positive consistent posting,as oppossed to the querulous,rebarbative,vexatious ad hominem types that we all too often get!

I feel that resorting someones character or intelectual/political views to this kind of bias towards computer friendly (it's hard enough for the system to accomadate a posting without pressing the "back" button a couple of times) modern forms of voting will add nothing but to downgrade the forum to the equivalent of modern entertainment,such as "pop Idol" or "X-factor" etc...

I'm feeling somewhat akin with John Lydon in the jungle when Ant & Dec tried to tell him what his vote from the public was!

Very depressing,is there not any santuary's left that have not been tainted by the superficial traits of the modern world!

Percentage

Oh & another thing,those people that are new to the forum or simply browsing should have enough intelligence of there own through reading the words of someone whether that person is of interest or not.

A star point system is just a completely vacuous exercise!

Hartlepool

So,non political threads can be ignored then,is that what you're saying JC?

Plenty of threads and posts on here contain nothing pertaining to politics because they have been posted to address one part of someone elses posting.(s).

John Connor

Those outside the lounge, yep. It's a political forum, after all.

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Akria

Could someone who he hasn't got on ignore ask him what he thinks about scientific threads, then?

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