Antipoint Selection Menu

[Guus]

Maybe you could unselect both options on first loading the 'assign antipoints to post' popup, such that a user is forced to click on one of the two options? Stops people from making the same stupid mistake I just made

Damn, and I hardly ever give negative-antipoints - now I had the chance, but I messed up. I know, I know, I perform horribly under stress :P

[Terr]

Ooh, I have stuff to add, just ideas:

Drop down-list of Antipoint reasons? Maybe an (additional) "General Reason" field, in which a nondefault value needs to be selected?

The "assign-towards-even" option, so that you can use a smaller than normal amount of your Antipoint-punch in order to bring a post back to even, without overcompensating.

[Matty_Cross]

In a similar fashion to Terr's suggestion of points towards even, I have another small idea...

A simple sliding scale, allowing you to choose whether to assign a full antipoints hit, a medium or a low..

This would allow users to give Full Antipoints hits to posts the believe are extremely good, or a lower amount, fitting with a post that is good, but not deserving of the large amount of points that some of the members with too many greenies to count can give..

[micael]

This is all good ideas and I totally agree with Matty_Cross "sliding scale" based antipoint system, I like that idea.

[thesecretfire]

I think the antipoint system is good enough as it is...sure these features would be cool, but are they really worth the hassle of implementing them?

[Matty_Cross]

Well, the suggestions offer good additions to the antipoints system.. ones which would be quite useful (sorry, I really like the sliding scale idea).. I mean, being able to cater how large a dose of antipoints you unleash upon someone would be wonderful..
If someones being an annoying SK, I smack them with a full fist of antipoints..
But if they've just made a mistake and I don't view it as deserving a full hand, I can give the a bitchslap, only giving them a half dose of points...

And Terr's idea of Adjust to even is also quite useful, as people giving the correct information, which does not co-incide with a few members ideas on the matter, are often unjustly given negative points for a perfectly accurate posts..


I agree that the antipoints system is good... along with the whole site..
But as for these suggestions being worth the 'hassle' of implementing, yes, I do think that they would be worth it, and I don't think that they would be all that much 'hassle' at all...

[RiOtEr]

hmmm also on the topic of ao points we need a way to annonemosly if thats how u speel it pm people that give u ao points withought a name so we can discuss the reason they gave those stupid god damn reason just a thought thanks
RiOtEr

[ZeroOne]

Terr, how many times have you posted those ideas already? You have those always in your clipboard?-)
Anyway, I also like yours & Guus's ideas.

[Terr]

ZeroOne: I am so very evil. I guess it's because they haven't been shot down by the powers that be.

In terms of a scale.... how about INSTEAD of "How much do you wish to assign?" It could be a scale of "What post level would you like to try to send this thing to?" To use a metaphor (this isn't literal), the distance between where you click and where the post currently is corresponds to how many points you would like to give out.