I don’t do social media, I’m a confirmed introvert, and I’ve never been particularly noted (or even noticed!) in many years on CC. So I don’t expect to amass many points. The rep thing does remind me of teen angst, though. (I must say that some of the popular kids here have been much nicer to me on CC than the popular kids in high school ever were! :D)
My misgivings aside, I’d say it’s worth a try if it somehow leads to a more measured tone when folks disagree here. I just don’t think it will …
Don’t care for this at all - what an awful idea - maybe I’ll finally give up my addiction to lurking on this site.
It’s bad enough that my post counts don’t go up no matter how many times I post - I take that back it went up by 1 after a year - I almost posted that on the bragging thread. I don’t post that often but should have lost the ‘junior’ a few years ago.
This whole development is very off putting. I guess civilization really is in decline 
This is a really bad idea-I fail to see what good will come of it but I sure can see a lot of downside.
Your post count doesn’t go up for posts in the “Cafes”–that probably explains it.
You can easily increase your post count by going to the “Chance Me” forum and telling kids they need reaches, matches and safeties. That never gets old.
^ha - that explains it Hunt because I just got credit for that last post.
Heading over to "Chance Me’ and maybe I can be a jewel in the rough some day soon too! 
Well, I’ve been trying to eliminate a couple of “time wasters” from my life, and this development has allowed me to decide to eliminate the CC time waster. Now that both my kids have their college acceptances and the oldest her job offer for graduation this spring, I can say “thank you” to all of you helpful posters for keeping my mind off my kids enough to let them do their own thing.
But, rep points? Yawn.
Good luck to all still in the game. 
I love the way the rep feature is being discussed in the “prestigiosity” thread.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1421664-time-revise-prestigiosity-ratings-4.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1421664-time-revise-prestigiosity-ratings-4.html</a> (It starts with Post #144 by Hunt.)
What I hear you saying is that you really want to concentrate on the quantitative helpfulness of a given post without regard to the author, but you just can’t help taking a holistic view. Next, you’ll be telling me you enjoyed essays about chicken nuggets.
Aw, come on. Personally, I plan to have fun with it for a week or so, and then forget about it.
A shout out to anyone who thinks about leaving CC over this.
Please don’t. Take what would likely be your own advice if someone was writing a post in another thread about “bullying”, “popularity contests”, “unfair competition” etc. - that would probably be to either turn and look the other way or to act maturely and keep your eye on the correct prize, not the scam of the contest.
The insight and IMO, priceless humor you provide many of us on a daily basis is too precious to lose. Seriously!
abasket, I almost felt guilty giving you reputation points for your last post.
Definitely. At least see how it shakes out. And for the kids - perhaps having this to think about is a slight improvement over agonizing about whether the ED email will come on December 12 or December 13? Oh wait, that’s the parents…
+1 to abasket.
I didn’t think it would bother me much, but I’ll admit that having only one little lonely dot next to my name is a bit sad. I just feel like CC is judging me (the site, not the people). It’s strange to put in to words…
OOh, I pushed you over to 2 green squares, Abasket!! 
I want to know why CC doesn’t have a useful quote box link like other forums have.
I’d like to have a meta-discussion on how you all are assigning points, because I’d like to figure out the formula, so that I can gain it. Because not enough white Jewish midwestern mothers of twins have 4 stars yet, and I think it’s evidence of discrimination. I so wish there was transparency in reputation-awarding.
Yelp does it, Reddit does it; it can work here too. I’d like to start by awarding 1000 green boxes to ucbalumnus, consistently the most informative and helpful poster.
I’d also like to see a symbol, perhaps a red Masterlock, awarded to those posters who consistently turn an otherwise lively discussion into negative territory leading to the inevitable lock on the thread.
So what have we figured out so far about the system. Since we’re all so smart (yes, we are - maybe not “likeable”, but smart) let’s turn this into an investigation - a research project of sorts…
<li>people are randomly given green squares to start with based on “someone’s” theory on how reliable they are. Post counts alone did not make the # of squares decision.</li>
<li>people who have more squares have more clout when “rep-ing” a poster’s post - so if a 3 square person “reps” my post I’ll get more points than if a one square person does??</li>
Please correct these above if incorrect based on your theories. And add to the qualitative/quantitative data we are collecting for this investigation…
I don’t think anybody started out with more than one green square. It does appear, based on the popup statements, that some people may have started out with a few more points than others.
ooh romani-- <strong>poofff</strong> now you have 2 too oh, the power of being an old geezer around here