The Skill FAQ - How can skillz pay the bills?

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by SpitFire40

Can you suggest a post made by someone else as skill worthy?

Yup, when you report it just say "Thought it was a great post" or something like that.

[Barnes]

Originally Posted by SpitFire40

Can you suggest a post made by someone else as skill worthy?

That's what I asked. I hope nobody thinks I want to nominate my own posts.

[SebC]

Perhaps my question is better placed here:

I've found my number of skill points received and my latest post having recieved a skill point, but how do I find the rest of them?

[Five-hole]

Is "report a post" anonymous?

[kermitology]

Originally Posted by SebC

Perhaps my question is better placed here:

I've found my number of skill points received and my latest post having recieved a skill point, but how do I find the rest of them?

Well that might be the only post that you got skill points for. Photon said that the system gives out about 6 points per good post and takes away something like 6 or 7 for poor posts.

[photon]

Originally Posted by SebC

Perhaps my question is better placed here:

I've found my number of skill points received and my latest post having recieved a skill point, but how do I find the rest of them?

Unfortunately it doesn't show them all, however it will show the last 25 I think. And like kermitology said, the # of points given out for a single positive rating can vary between 5 and 7 depending on some math the server does.

[photon]

Originally Posted by Five-hole

Is "report a post" anonymous?

It isn't to Moderators, however we don't pass that information on to anyone.

[REDVAN]

Is it sad that I notice many more negative skill points than positive ones? Should we start being more lenient for the good points?

[SpitFire40]

Originally Posted by REDVAN

Is it sad that I notice many more negative skill points than positive ones? Should we start being more lenient for the good points?

My opinion is of the opposite. Less jumping the gun on negs unless it's extremely blatant and disruptive. I like that you've gotta put some work in to get red's.

[fredr123]

Cross-posted in a different (perhaps less appropriate thread) somewhat in response to REDVAN above:

The reputation system has been in effect for some time now. Can you (photon) provide us with any kind of statistics as to how many users are in the blue, how many in red, the most of each colour, etc.?

I've tried looking in the Member List but reputation isn't formatted the same way as in the rest of the forums. Just a rough guess but it looks like about 81 posters are in the red and about 49 are in the blue. And all out of about 5057 users, right? Also, of these 5057 users is there any way to tell how many of them have posted anything in the last few months?

The reason I'm asking is that it seemed at first that the blue rep points were much easier to come by and reds were harder to get. The brief review of the Member List seems to suggest otherwise. It would be interesting to know how many "active" posters have escaped the purgatory of gray rep...

Has there been any further work or discussion as to what use the Skill attribute will be put? For example, two blues and you're banned?

[JiriHrdina]

No firm guidelines have been established but we have suspended one user based on the number of negative skill ratings they received.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

No firm guidelines have been established but we have suspended one user based on the number of negative skill ratings they received.

i'm gonna take a wild guess and say that their name ryhmes with Tamecrane

[loob job]

Maybe i'm having a tough time with this system and need an explanation. I stand up for some fellow posters by saying not to argue with someone because they're always right, someone who constantly picks on people and i am at -7 points? How's that work, one bad post = -7?? Please someon explain for me.

[photon]

The actual # you have isn't that relevant.. a single negative skill can have a value of up to -7, so that just means you got a single negative skill.

It also shows the post you got a negative skill for and the comment from the skill giver.

[loob job]

ok, thanks for the clarification, i appreciate it.

[moon]

If you feel you got negative rep and didn't deserve it any way to deal with that?

Or is it a we are the deciders to bad if you don't like it?

[Superfraggle]

Originally Posted by moon

If you feel you got negative rep and didn't deserve it any way to deal with that?

Or is it a we are the deciders to bad if you don't like it?

From the Fame thread:

"MOD EDIT: If you have a problem with a skill report it and the mod and skill teams can evaluate it, venting it isn't a good idea."

[alltherage]

I moved my post.

[vanisleflamesfan]

Okay I have a question about this skill stuff:

If you start a redundant thread, do you automatically recieve a negative skill? I don't mean an accidental fata of posting the same story at the same time as someone else, but take today for example, when there are multiple threads about the trade; when I look at those threads, the threadstarters all have negative skill. Or is it just a coincidence that these same people already had negative skill BEFORE their redundant threads?

[Azure]

Bump....can we get an answer to the question above?

One other thing, does your blue thingy stay forever? I have noticed a few posters on here who have had the blue box since this program was implemented.

I guess the same question goes for the red thingy.