More photos of GDC Soon - It’s over!

Original post: http://devlog.kag2d.com/post/46709382597/more-photos-of-gdc-soon-its-over

 

Obviously you know nothing and it would be better if you had stayed silent.

It will take a lot of tweaking. Downvoting like that won't be really possible.

 

User rep could be bad if poorly implemented or, done right, could be pretty damn effective. Given that it's FLAB implementing it, things should be okay. Don't shoot it until you've looked it in the eyes, bone. ;)

 

Oi, I'm still thoroughly tired so this will be reasonably brief, but I figured from all the "ooooooh rep is a terrible scary idea! halp, crazy devs" posts, PMs, and ingame rants I've seen, clarifying how we're planning on making the system work would be a good idea.

• One vote on any given user per day - you can vote on as many people as you like, but you can't vote multiple times on any given user per day. This limits the rate of exchange in the system.
• Cost for voting - 0.5 reputation will be taken for an upvote or a downvote. This means you have to either have high reputation or care pretty earnestly to up- or down-vote a player. It also means that counter-downvoting someone for downvoting you is expensive, and that voting on the whole server isn't really long-term feasible. Noone with negative points can vote.
• Limit rep between -100 to 100 - at this point we feel a sane ceiling and floor on reputation is a good idea to prevent someone gaining +5167815 rep and being able to "afford to be a dick to everyone".
• Give new users 0 reputation - prevents spamming zombie accounts.
• Regen - Give users with <20 reputation 1 point per week - this compensates for "misfire" a little, and implements "ban expiry" for downvoted accounts. Basically you can afford to be very slightly negative. 1 week should be a long enough time to make farming points like this very inefficient (it should be noted that zombie accounts like that would be very easy to find as well).
• Reasonably lenient "deny join" threshold - at the moment we're thinking you'll have to get to about -25 or so before default servers don't let you in. This number will be able to be configured per-server of course (which means if you want an elite 50+ only server, you can have it).
• Give prominent users in the community a good rep from the get go - this will apply to guards in particular, but also probably some carefully selected long term players. This means that power gradually flows from the hard-cap moderation that we have now, into the community.

Obviously the numbers in there are subject to change (eg if 20 is too high a rep to be able to "idle" to, we can decrease it), but the overall design should be apparent: democratic leadership that scales perfectly with the number of users.

Obviously, if the system turns out to be a total failure we'll have to find something else, but I can honestly see this working very well.

 

thebonesauce, please behave. Guards have to go - simply put - they are not enough to guard all the servers. Recruiting more is not an option. How would you imagine managing such a large group? Now it's pretty vague at times and brings a lot of hate.

In my opinion Reputation System will work out well.

He got it right. Sorry for not being a native speaker and having problems with expressing myself.

Also, there is always a way to express yourself in a nice way, without raging, swearing and all that unneeded bad emotions.

EDIT:
As to me treating the community members like "brainless morons"...well I cannot deny that. It is probably because I'm dealing everyday with reports of cheaters which slowly drives me mad and lowers my esteem of this community.

 

Well, while I'm not against this user reputation system if it's well implemented, I'm more against removing all Guards from duty.

I mean, if they're tired of being guard or are not active, sure, but if they are happy to help and administrate the game, why remove them? They aren't getting payed, so it shouldn't be a problem.

A mix of Guards and User Rep could work great, if there's a Guard on IRC and there's an issue, he can go there quickly and solve the problem immediately, and if there are too many problems at once, the user rep system can be used. Best of both worlds.