LTC8K6
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- Mar 10, 2004
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I'm pretty sure AIM is completely dead now.Kind of wish we could put our HeatWare account name in our Account Details... does anyone even use AIM or Yahoo messenger anymore?
apologies if that's been discussed or touched upon before.
Thumbs down for social credit. Don't like the "reaction" stuff one bit, and this is even worse. Even if you like such a thing, this implementation is bad. Imagine someone thinking that another person's technical advice is bad because of poor social credit, where they're just being mobbed by the other side in the politics forum. Bleh. Don't want.
Of note, this is only Phase 0 of the upgrades planned. Phase 1 and Phase 1.5 will contain a more robust reputation system that will doubtless replace that green bar you see now listing Likes breakdowns.
It's not the hideous green bar that is the issue. It is actual existence of the reputation system. The mere concept of a reputation system is complete anathema to honest, positive, social interaction.
We're long enough into the internet forum and social media thing to understand that. It may create "attention" and tribalism, which is maybe good for "clicks," but don't ever confuse that with any kind of worthwhile positive mental human input. It is fundamentally destructive.
Just watch the animals in P&N furiously dislike the dislikable and vice versa.
Take the absolute bone-stock XenForo 2.1 default interface, slap on an AT logo and adjust the colors to suit, create a dark counterpart and roll that out.
The mere concept of a reputation system is complete anathema to honest, positive, social interaction. We're long enough into the internet forum and social media thing to understand that. It may create "attention" and tribalism, which is maybe good for "clicks," but don't ever confuse that with any kind of worthwhile positive mental human input. It is fundamentally destructive. Just watch the animals in P&N furiously dislike the dislikable and vice versa.
If one were to care about one's "Reputation", they'd avoid all social controversy at all costs.
You could also terminal into the BBS and engage at the command line in full ASCII glory... /sass
Seriously though - there's a significant number of improvements to the standard baseline theme in operation here. A lot of it is workflow for new users, mobile-friendly presentation, and quality of life upgrades. But - there might be some hyper-minimalist options available for theming after all the phases are rolled out and we're stable.
We've never had a rep system here before, why do we all of a sudden need one, especially when everyone posting here is against it? The systems breed anti-social behavior and are annoying. Even the sports forums I go to have gotten rid of rep systems because there were so annoying and encouraged bad posting habits.The reputation system in full operation will preclude social areas - at least where certain aspects of the larger trophies and incentivized activities are concerned. Factionality and tribalism already exist in this and other forums, and the full reputation system (up to phase 3 of the Future Community Suite) takes this into consideration. My team and I have some experience in building these types of systems in a way that does produce positive outcomes without prompting any spike in toxicity or animosity between existing social lattices in communities. I'm less interested in "clicks" than I am in building strong, vibrant communities. Most of the reputation system will revolve around providing assistance to other users with issues, or offering valid, useful responses to legitimate questions. There's a sizable difference between questions like "What's the best way to apply thermal paste?" and "What's your favorite movie?"/"Which politician is the worst?". The prior could use a nudge in the right direction - the latter tend to themselves.
Hence the exclusion! Contentiousness and respectful factional disagreement shouldn't be disincentivized, and there's never a solid rationale to enable a bandwagon's punitive capabilities.
At least let us turn it off, I can decide for myself whose posts I care about.
Just had to log back in again, and it didn't prompt me for 2FA. Any reasons for this?