Anti-Points Suggestion??

Hello to the group!! I just found this message board yesterday and joined up and now I already feel unwelcome. Here is my dilema. I posted a valid question in a Thread. To my dismay the next day I recieved 4 negative points because a User (I wont mention names) thinks that my posting in this thread is OLD????? Now normally I would not care, but I just joined this group. And a person can be banned from this group if he/she recieves to many negative points.

My Site Suggestion:
Leave the Anti-points but do not allow a user to be banned because he/she gets too many points. That is what the site owners and moderators are for. To think that I could be banned because I posted in an old thread does not make sense. The thread was not even old. It started on 01/05/04 and there are many posts including one just a day before I posted. And as I mentioned earlier I just joined this group the very same day I had made my post. This thread is why I joined the group in the first place.

This is my site suggestion thanks for your time. Feel free to post your feelings. I would like to know what everybody else thinks.

TechBill

Anti points are necessary on AO. Do you have any idea how many people are on Ao? it would be a pretty tough job for the admins here to keep track of them. Dont' worry about it, AP's aren't that important. Whoever gave you those negs was probably jus being an ass. Just dont post stupidly and for the love of donuts, dont complain about AP asignments. they usualy just ge you more neg AP's.


slick

IF we didnt give out negs to let's say script kiddies and trolls then the boards would be flooding with stupid messages and flames, and we dont have enough mods to keep track of every forum 24/7. Thats where AP's get into play, we ban users instead of the admins. They can gain -300 AP's before getting banned, so there is a big chance to redeem themselves and get into the green again.

Ok I can see this point. Do you guys think I deserved these negative anti-points I recieved?
TechBill

Well I personally dont think that you deserved the negative anti-points.

But there is something that we all forget at times and that is :
We all make mistakes and I am no exception.

But on a side note welcome to AO.

Maybe I am overreacting. I pm'd the moderator and he wont remove the points. I just wanted to see what other people thought. I'll hang out for awhile. I appreciate the welcome :)
Thanks and Best Regards,
TechBill

And on a side note, starting a thread about antipoints, especially when you haven't even been here long enough to understand the benifit is like aiming a flame-thrower at your head...

I read your post.. and I can see no good reason why you were negged, but then again, someone has been negging threads for no good reason the past couple days anyway.

Ways to not lose antipoints:

Don't ask questions that have been asked 1000 times before. Use the AO search feature before you ask a question... I'd bet yor question has already been asked. If you can't find it here, search Google... then, if you still can't find it, or don't understand the information you have found, then ask.

If you don't know how to search for something, check out the searching related tutorials on this site. Often times people ask questions where all we need to do is cut out part of the question, paste it into Google, and Ta-daa...the first hit answers the question.

Avoid questions that have the following words in them; hacking, cracking, break-in, warez, pirate software, getting a serial number...etc. Sometimes there are perfectly legitimate reasons for using those words, but tread lightly.

Avoid practicing social engineering to get us to help you with illegal activities. Some of us are better at it than you are (my money is on gore personally)

Avoid posting one liners, ie; "lmao", "do what he said", "tru dat"

Avoid l33t 5p34k... it's annoying and not really all that clever.

Avoid posting about antipoints.

Avoid suggesting changes to a site when you have not even been here long enough to understand what everything is about.

Also keep in mind that you may be negged at any time for no good reason at all...it sucks, but it happens.

Try to treat others with respect. We all have our bad days, but we don't want to make a habit out of it.

Don't expect to get spoonfed all the answers. If you can't do the least little bit of research to help yourself, why should we help?

Welcome to AO


EDIT: Just found this link http://www.antionline.com/showthread...&postid=607725

EDIT 2: another Nascar fan :thumbsup:

You PM'd me and I told you I can't give you back antipoints, mods don't have that kind of power.

My suggestion, what pruneing threads older than say 3 months into a forum that cannot be posted in, or givin' positive or neggative antipoints for, you shouldn't need to anyways.

Peace

MB

I appreciate everyones Input, Support. I have actually recieved enough points to put me in the green because of this thread. Maybe the person who gave me the neg points was just having a bad day like myself. Looking back on it now I feel like I may have overreacted a bit. I dont want to start any problems. I like this board and find lots of useful information here. Thanks again for all the support.
Best Regards
TechBill
:)

Okay, you have gained AP's for crying about losing them, but this will not work in the future. Crying about AP's is really the worst thing to do. Learn from the negative AP's and try not to do things that get you assigned AP's and then remember some people here can tend to be idiots and assign AP's (good or bad) for no reason and there is nothing we can do except take it and deal with it. This is a free to use forum what do you expect?

Well since you, Info Tech Geek, were the one who gave me the Negative Anti-Points which prompted me to start this thread. How come you did not post a solution to my question??? Instead you give me negs and say the post is old when it is not! You seem to have a problem with me since day one, post one. What is the problem? Do you always treat newbies this way?

Then you say:

"Learn from the negative AP's and try not to do things that get you assigned AP's and then remember some people here can tend to be idiots and assign AP's (good or bad) for no reason and there is nothing we can do except take it and deal with it"

Are you calling yourself an Idiot?? Because I know the points were not deserved. The moderator said the points were not deserved and mostly everyone else has been supportive. There are other forums I have never had this kind of trouble before?!?

I still dont know if I want to stay here or not. I dont like this points system. Too many chiefs and not enough indians. I still feel that the moderator should be the only one with the power to ban.

TechBill

Well, that's just one of the many flaws of the AP system. Not every neg is "deserved" and not every "pos" is deserved. For instance, you can give an idiot an 11dot account and he may neg everyone here for whatever they post. It's certainly not a perfect process. On one hand I see the AP's as a way of moderation, then again, I think we could all live without them.

.dublix

I don't think it is a flaw, from this individuals reaction I think he may have prompted this. As you can see he will not let this go and he seems to have received plenty of AP's from this thread. I have a feeling he must have lashed back at the individual after the AP's and the other individual may have also lashed back with negs.

However, Techbill this is turning into a flame thread and is considered a personal attack on an individual and can often lead to a lot of headaches. I would just stop while your ahead.

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I still dont know if I want to stay here or not. I dont like this points system.

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I dont have anything against you but you can leave whenever you want to. Nobody'll miss you.

And you have been here what? less than a month now, and you complain about AP's and say we don't need them. How do you know we don't need them, you haven't been here that long. And stop bitching about AP's. Who cares if somebody gets banned, create another account and correct your mistakes from the previous one, or if you get banned for no reason, create another account and start posting again, it's not like you get something for keeping one account or having many posts.

People will not learn to stop crying if others give the positive points. I have noticed there are a lot of nice people out there that will give positive AP's to shut someone up, but it only encourages them.