There’s really not any benefit to showing other users the rudeness score or the amount of times that a user has flagged posts as rude. At best it would only generate animosity, and at worst it would be pure tit-for-tat warfare. But I can see everyone’s rudeness activity, and I can and do take action against users that are consistently rude and also against the very small number of users that try to abuse the system. There’s really not a lot of “serial haters” as Macka17 describes it, and button abuse is surprisingly infrequent.
If you get 1, maybe 2 rude points, do check your list of problem posts to make sure you weren’t inadvertently rude, but don’t sweat it too much. Anything more than that and you probably do have a problem with your tone or attitude that you need to change, at least while you’re posting on BLF.
“Probably” is a point of view ,depending that person’s interest/affection , keeping on about something is …. again , depending on who’s the one to judge the things,partially or not that much
When I posted comment #481 in this thread, kntx’s post count was 122. When I posted comment #484 ~20 minutes later, the post count was 50. It now says 56.
Not sure if that helps, but it looks like something happened during that time.
A while back I got hit by an ahole who marked my posts rude in retaliation for comments about a hurricane. He exaggerated the situation while I posted factual information. I’m still here, and my brother is still in Tampa having survived the storm. It seems some new members like to assert their ‘power’ by trying to ‘strike back’ at those they disagree with or contradict them and this ‘rude’ system could result in the loss of contributing members if enforced too stringently. After seeing my rude meter leap I nearly bailed and am still hesitant to post due to that person but I’m still here albeit less frequently.
Yep, sorry that happened to you. Please continue to participate freely here, and if some user has a vendetta against you then I will terminate that other user’s account.
First time I came upon this thread I noticed a few days ago that I wrote a line in a joking way in response to a member's comment, but he thought maybe I was upset about his comment and I wasn't at all and clarified my post to him. Anyway, fast forward to today and I re-read my post and it can be taken as rude if someone else would read it, so I just edited the one line out. BTW, I like the idea of not being rude and thanks for starting this thread. If rudeness comes in, that just means we failed to discuss things in a civilized manner. We at BLF are better than that