Suggestion for Reps

Such a nice ring to it.

Hm... Well I`m only a newbie. But after reading all of the post I agree that a title might lead to some sort of mislead in this forum. How about rep can be used to gain a prize, like an original doujin if reached certain numbers. That may hyped it up a bit, well that might make a rep like a money. What I can only think of other than that is by creating a right like if the rep reach a certain point u can put an image to u`r background text bubble. Well that`s cooler than title in my opinion (well its only a suggestion)

nobody is that rich! xD
the custom title still has a nice ring to it.
the few members able to achive it are able to show off their new titles
from working hard to get that 'certain amount' of rep.
[size=1]probably the same shit i said on my first comment. x] [/h]

Here is my breakdown on the entire issue. Let me start off with the benefits.

The "good":
- Having a custom title will definitely give a member a greater sense of identity within the community.
- It could spur some members to contribute to Fakku, be it in terms of uploads, creative ideas or original threads with plenty of room for discussion.
- More use for the reputation system.

The "bad":
- Having a username, avatar and signature should be sufficient for anyone to identify a particular member.
- Members may "contribute" to Fakku, simply to achieve their objective of obtaining a higher reputation. When their goal has been reached, these members may stop whatever they have been doing. I have never approved of such actions since contribution, like post counts, should be made with sincerity.
- Increase in the number of complaints. Members may place far too much emphasis on their individual reputation points. When they get de-repped, they may start questioning the loss in points, once again, bringing up the issue of a reputation log and other related topics.
- The entire idea generally favours those who already have a significant number of reputation points, which I believe is unfair to new members. True enough, all of us had to work our way up, but the mentality of elitism within Fakku could eventually develop.
- Assuming that the minimum number of reputation points needed to obtain a custom title is 20, what happens when one hits the target, only for his/her points to fall back to 19? Will the particular member be stripped of his custom title?

To prevent abuse of the system, theotaku has suggested that all custom titles be permanent, unless special circumstances call for alternative actions to be taken, which I think is a good suggestion. However, at the end of the day, I am still against such an implementation, at least for now, until further aspects of it has been addressed.

P.S. I noticed that everyone who has posted in this thread has a minimum of 10 reputation points. :D

not anymore by the way i also back this idea even though i will likely never achieve a 20 point anything (NO JOKES ON MY NAME PLEASE)i still think it would be a good little boost for those who can and do it will make them feel more wanted and inclined to give more to the site.

As for my stance on FPOD's idea, unfortunately I have to say I'm not liking it, for the reasons Gambler outlined so eloquently in his post. It's also something extraneous; unneeded clutter, if you will, on the forum layout.

I mean there isn't any point for reps equaling downloading privileges since this site is free, which also goes for user uploads section. We can't request translations for the FAKKU staff to do (recommend only if you're well respected enough, and even then it's only a consideration - based on the rules), and custom titles in addition to our rank is a no go. I can't think of any other idea for the use of rep, other than it tells us we're well liked and respected.

With that having said (even though I thought I defended this idea pretty well), we're back to square one again: reps mean squat. Ah well. I believed the original purpose of reps was to show that we're well liked and respected in the first place, so this is nothing new. I think.

[size=5]And if it isn't, then too bad. Looks like we're gonna have to live with it being enough.[/h]

It's not that hard. I went the hard route (intelligent and/or humorous posts and look how many I have. That reminds me, how many do I have?

Anyways, I know it's more than 20 so if I wrote mountains of large posts and that is the hard way. Just look for some vids, games, doujin,etc that haven't been uploaded yet and upload a few. I promise after a few good uploads you'll have more than 20.