The new FAKKU!

Well with the rep system gone, I suggest posting some sort of notification on the front page so that no one will complain. This decision made by Jacob is in the middle of this thread and I'm sure not everyone will look at this.

=O Lets see how this experiment turns out.



I really like that idea. Anytime you plus rep or minus rep someone state your reason why. If a mod catches a loss or gain of rep with no good reason or a bad intent then they should be able to revert it.

I just imagined the user uploads section with a ton of +reps at the bottom of a post and next to them all saying "YOUR FUCKING AWESOME!" "KEEP IT UP!" "I'M GOING TO NAME MY FIRSTBORN AFTER YOU FOR THIS!" and it just makes me grin.

Then again, that just adds to the mess and moderating the rep system creates a lot of work for the mods who are already probably overworked as it is.

Ive said it numerous of times and ill say it again.GET RID OF THE REP SYSTEM.. It does nothing at all, it has just caused problems and is pissing everyone off, myself included.

After reading these 2 posts i just had to make this ;)

https://www.fakku.net/viewtopic.php?p=628811#628811
https://www.fakku.net/viewtopic.php?p=629009#629009



That's for the lulz only.

I'm young on the forums, been lurking for about a month only. So far Fakku has been a very friendly community with varied types of threads to cater to diverse interests. Hoping to enjoy the years to come.

Only downside of removing the rep system is that i won't be able to thank the uploaders in the VN/eroge section...

There is always a simple thank you. No real difference between it and actually +repping someone.

imo, rep is a motivator for people to help and contribute or upload something

rep is needed as an appeal for all members to help the community. that's why i think it'll be better if only the -rep option is taken off from fakku

I second this.

imho, If a person needs rep as a motivator to help someone then I don't want that person here.

^WE NEED THIS NAOW!!

If you look at..

LINKS:

Here:https://www.fakku.net/viewtopic.php?t=27667&start=15

Here:https://www.fakku.net/viewtopic.php?t=27625

and Here:https://www.fakku.net/viewtopic.php?t=27605

This is why you would see this in one of my posts..

That's what I am thinking. If you're only willing to help fulfill requests and upload to this site with rep as your motivation then you really need to rethink why you are here.

And imo people who expect to receive everything they need through charity are too naive and never have experienced and never will experience real life.

excuse me this is about the community not about you

Ah, the softbanker routine ("waaah waaah you have never experienced and never will experience real life"), delightful.
People aren't expected to help for nothing, they're expected to help in exchange for attention, one of the most powerful motivators on earth. No +/-rep needed.

Kind of like what the hell happened to a simple thank you.

Back in my day it used to all you needed. :P

Nothing wrong with taking a break from rep either way people. The concept was good and designed to be of use to the community but ended up mutating somewhere along the road. IMHO we can easily live without rep and it's simply hard to let go of something that was to our disposal for so long but even so cooling off for a bit might give it a chance to return. Motemote aside, the system seemed to have worked in the beginning so we might just have to ease on the drama concerning it.

the point of my first post is that +/-rep is one of the way they gain attention

Also, I'm late to the party as ever, but good old Das highlights a few extra strong points here, all of which I tend to agree with.

Nostalgia is fine and only too natural, methinks, but one shouldn't let it completely get it in the way of one's view. I think under the deluge of sewage there's still the odd one or two funny or even thoughtful posts going on.

I don't think trolls are as much of a problem as some make them out to be. The trolls on fakku are so lame and obvious that they never do any real harm, because they're so easily spotted. At best, they manage to be amusing once in a while, at worst they completely slip under my radar.

I don't think arguments are bad per se either. It's only when people click off their brains that they tend to get annoying.

I think it is somewhat utopic to believe that even without the influx of new members the community would have staid the same; it doesn't even have anything to do with this being the internet. Even if fakku had stopped accepting new users at the time of its (perceived?) prime, it is illusionary to assume that it would have remained the same: The hermetically shut-off and incestuous atmosphere would have led to things becoming stale and to as much abandonment as the currently experienced growth does.

Now, I am in no way claiming everything's always bright and rosy. But for those issues that do exist, (the/my) cure could be deemed worse than the disease, and it is unrealistic to assume that a perfect, blissful state of magical harmony and unicorns can be managed into being.

Well look at it like this: I've got my first rep for a post in some SD thread about Hitler where people were stating some outrageous things, and I made a post to "enlighten" (weird word) most of them. It was some long ass post about basic history with some wiki refferences, but surprisingly enough I got repped for it.

When I saw it the next day, I was surprised and glad someone thought my words were helpful, and as a true newbie, I was motivated to keep up the work like that (not that I really kept it up at all, meh).

If people expect getting repped just because they're awesome then yes, they don't deserve being here, but in some cases, it might be a really good motivator.
(I am NOT saying I need the rep system back.)

Maybe instead of rep we could have something like, "One user has thanked xxxx for this post" or something like that with no equivalent to derep and no numbers being kept.

Like Hongfire's system?

Hmm.

I dunno. I've been with Fakku for so long that the removal of rep doesn't bother me because I lost my shiny number, but because the page looks different now.

Still, I had the same ten-minute qualm when Jacob did the major site revamp.

As for my thoughts on the matter, and this may just be my oldfag acting up, I sorta feel post quality has gone down a bit.

It's gotten to the point where, when I ended up staying off Fakku for a month due to real life, when I got back a few days ago, I had some trouble finding some topics to post in.

Again, it's probably just my oldfag, but I went into random and SD, saw front pages full of...well, what looked like reposts and inane threads, and thought, "Who the fuck are you guys? What are you on about?". The only pace I've really been able to post in, even briefly, has been User Uploads and Specific Anime Series, into which all of the other older members tend to post often.

I dunno. I think I might be having my Fakku midlife crisis.