I have no problem if a member knows I marked them rude. I’m pretty sure I used it 3 times since it started and one of those members got banned. I forget the guy’s name.
Meh, it doesn’t really matter (to me) who marks posts as rude.
You can look here (when logged in) what post was marked: http://budgetlightforum.com/my-problem-posts
Then you can edit it or add a comment like “Why was this rude?” or something, because indeed, sometimes it wasn’t rude but someone apparently highly disagreed or something.
But i usually consider it helpful feedback.
There’s a rudeness meter on the left side of the page that shows how many Rude! points you have against you. Also, you can check the page that Jerommel linked above.
AFAIK, there’s no ‘automatic’ consequence to being ‘ruded’ except for getting points in your bar. But, the site owner does check, especially if he sees that you’re racking up a lot of them, and may step in to ‘correct’ the situation, if need be.
As the recipient of rude points for totally un-rude posts, one was even praising, I totally agree. There’s a place for anonymity, but the way it practiced here it’s totally out of whack - from my experience.
i think the purpose of the rude marks is to let members know when other members think they are getting a little out of line. i am not aware of some dire consequence as a result. it may also serve a secondary purpose of alerting SB of potential problems including someone abusing said rude marks. I believe the ultimate reason for keeping them anonymous is to avoid the almost sure to follow flame wars. my personal pet peeve is the flagrant posting of OT but my style is to make my concerns public wither in the thread or starting a new topic.
sb is the only person who has an overview of how well the rude system works, what the balance is between functional use and misuse. It has been around for a few months now so I’m sure has developed an idea of that and I’m sure he will remove it from the site whenever it appears not serve a good purpose.
Just trust in SB doing it right
he is doing a great job and the community is awesome
The rude thing helps him, and I am sure if somebody is giving rude flags too often he will write that person a pm about it. As I am sure if somebody gets rude flags SB will contact that person if he deems that fitting.
heheh besides I see lots of posts that are only about how rude points were received, and you know what? If the thread is “hey I got rude marks” that is fine (maybe stat such topic, post there, link to the ruded post and ask why it was rude )
BUT tadaa if it is in another thread such posts are off topic and off topic about not nice things surely can be seen as rude
Just stop talking about rudepoints for it can hijack a thread in a very rude manner, no matter how polite the actual words in the posts about them are.
Your rude meter is like fight club
Honestly it work very well for a no-moderator system.
The reason it’s anonymous is the same reason that users aren’t allowed to delete or edit other people’s posts internet witchhunting and revenge.
However I have noticed that almost every time someone gets a rude point, they just have to mention it, and then the thread just gets derailed and becomes very negative.