Poll: Should We Do Away With Anonymous Rude Marks?

PS - I am now extremely curious about who has 48 pointsā€¦
Is that maybe a ā€œtotalā€ or something?
Maybe itā€™s someone in another thread that I just havenā€™t been reading?

I have no idea who got 48. At least Iā€™m not the top guy. lol!

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I never knew how any of that worked until I started teaching myself html/css.
Fun stuff to trick people with :stuck_out_tongue:

I donā€™t think Iā€™ve ever even posted 48 times in 24 hours - ever! So, either the person is being both Spammy AND Rude! or lots of people are marking the same post(s) (indicating that the posts are VERY Rude!).

Nope, those are current points. It was actually a bit higher in the past couple of days, but (s)he has calmed down and the points are slowly vanishing. No sense in speculating though, in fact Iā€™d prefer that everyone didnā€™t, because if we pick a name as ā€œmost likely to have 48 rudeness pointsā€ in a sort of cruel mock election, weā€™ll definitely have an offended BLFer. :slight_smile:

48, take a hint will ya. :slight_smile:

Yeah, good to keep that stuff anonymous :slight_smile:

I used to do 100+ per day on a different forum back when I was in high school and had lots of free time :smiley:

Yeah, donā€™t tell anyone, but screenshots as ā€œproofā€ of something happening in a web browser are comically easy to generate. I could generate a screenshot right now to prove that I just send $1,553,234.42 to atbglenn@tesla.com via PayPal.

:slight_smile: Thereā€™s a reason why it runs off the scale after 10 and intrudes into the forum posts columnā€¦

Well if someone with 48+ is still here, I donā€™t think you have much to stress about. Peace.

I wouldnā€™t mind if someone actually sent me that kind of money. Iā€™m going to start a fund me account called ā€œGlennā€™s feelings were hurt on BLF. We donā€™t know if he will ever recover. So please help out this poor soul. Yourā€™s truly, Not Glennā€¦ lol

I might contribute to that. :smiley:

What a guy! :slight_smile:

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As a recent receipient of a huge number of Rude votes, I definately would like to see the anonymous system done away with.

If something is truly Rudeā€¦ the Giver of the vote should have no problem with the Giveee knowing they gave the vote.

Just because someone chooses to mark a post rude does not automatically make it Rude.

Nor does dressing up an obviously Rude post with smiley faces make it not Rude.

ā€œTo meā€, that is somewhat equal to Chocolate coating something the doggie dropped & serving it up as something wonderful. Yeahā€¦ it might look good at first glanceā€¦ā€¦ till you get to the core of it that is. :slight_smile: . And there are some on here that are masters of that technique.

IF there cannot be an anonymous system, I feel there should at very least there should be something simple that people could show agreement with a post.

And I see the word ā€œvendettaā€ used in this thread. In fact it was used in obviously Rude ways aimed at the one who started this thread. Pretty amazingā€¦not in a good way either. :frowning:

To me, vendetta is when some anonymous person starts handing out Rude votes simply because someone does not agree with their opinion & it upsets their fragile little ego.

Thatā€¦ā€¦ā€¦. is the real meaning of vendatta as far as I am concerned.

And at that point, might as well post about it as a ā€œjokeā€; because that is exactly what it has become.

And posting about the injustice is no more Off Topic than the truck loads of other Off Topic chatter.

My .02ā€¦. ymmvā€¦
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Hi there teacher. Not to come down on you publicly, but again, by participating in an off-the-rails thread that is spawning an argument and getting tempers riled, rules were broken, and rude points happened.

Very true, well said.

When a lot of rude points start to rack up, there is often the false assumption that they are fraudulent hits. Seen from my end, itā€™s usually another storyā€” in the case of a user that starts to go off the scale with rude hits, there are usually multiple users, many of whom have no dog in the fight, that mark the post(s) as rude.

I definitely will not be implementing a way for users to see who marked the post as rude. It doesnā€™t matter who marked it as rude, as long as it was a genuine response to something perceived as rudeness (as defined here), thereā€™s basically no disputing it. Somebody was offended or concerned that rules were being broken, and it doesnā€™t matter who it was. What matters is what was said that offended the user. And thatā€™s what you can see here:

http://budgetlightforum.com/my-problem-posts

As I said before, in the rare case that somebody tries to game the system to clobber a personal enemy with rude points, I can easily detect that and will take necessary corrective measures, including suspending the account.

Hey SB, can you give a list of most rude points given? Also without names.
That 48 current is a bit of a shock but made me think if there are, say 5 members giving 80% of all rudes or if it is a much smaller difference between the ā€œtopā€ 5 or 10 then 48-6-and lower.