Nice!

Great move Robin!

love the idea.

Good idea and I love the pop bumper icon. As long as no one (it has to be many I guess) abuses the -1 feature it will work out great. I know on other sites people will sometimes start -1 ing just because they don't like the person.

Nice!

But one more... Here are a lot person, who helps on the others... It should be a "Superb help" or something button for their posts... And it should shown nex to their name, somehow. Like a big respect for, and from the Pinsiders.

I like the goal of encouraging more posts, but I'm not sure this is the way to do it. One reason a forum like this is interesting is because of all the varied personalities...Try to conform all those to a particular ruleset of what constitutes a 'good' poster and a 'bad' poster is very subjective and not achievable IMHO. I can see it being open to plenty of abuse, especially given the anonymity behind it. As lpeters correctly noted, the abuse occurs when members begin flagging other members, not the content of their posts. At that point it becomes a popularity contest and might in fact begin to discourage posts.

Can only enhance the Pinside experience Bad new for anyone trying to avoid using the site at work in order to actually get some work done

That's a good point... maybe the system can have software to detect this kind of abuse and block votes if it detects it...? (i.e. one user always voting another user down when overall the votes are positive for that particular post...)

I like the idea and I want it to work. I do believe there could be problems but I'm optimistic. I'd think 95% of the time it will go well. Like robertmee said, there's lots of different personalities here and people are here for different reasons. One person might look differently on a "pin vs pin" thread. Some are tired of them and some love them. The guy posting, AGAIN, "Is it ok to wax Mylar?" might not get his question answered because people are oh so tired of people not searching the question before they post it and they flag it. But as decided before something as opposed to nothing should be done at this point. Although things have been nice and quiet and all pinball lately. It's nice. Thanks for the hard work Robin. It's VERY obvious from this site you are extremely good at what you do.....actually I don't know what you do. You might sell hotdogs for all I know. Well incase it hasn't crossed your mind you should seriously consider a career in web design or some field relating to the Internet machine. Lol. Thanks again.

With a 'calm down' period I suggest, which increases in lenth on repeat abuse

I like this idea and think it would be at least worth trying. A positive place is what "most" of us here want Pinside to be and I think for the most part "we" all do a pretty good job of achieving such a goal. One thing I don't care too much for in regards to Karma is how a member who doesn't know a thing about Pins and does not even own one (yet) can end up skyrocketing with Karma points due to their unsubstantial posts such as "I like Gorgar the best" or "Can't wait to see it" or "I agree with robin". It really isn't that this is a big deal but I think others, especially newer members, could easily get the wrong idea that this person must be very knowledgeable and know Pins cause he/she has a lot of Karma points. Yet the members who know better can refer to the grand experience of a person like Pheobe who does not have a whole lot of Karma...anyway, just my two cents. Good luck robin and I am behind ya!

Didn't you post that one

SSssshhhhh....just because you are a slave...oh never mind.

Actually, how come you got rid of your Gorgar but have it as your av... I'd have thought a game high enough on your respect list to be your av would have been a sure keeper... Sorry for the off topic and un-deserving of kama post

If it were my site that's what I'd do...keep it positive. Then just use the "tilt warnings" to hide content that's offensive or not safe for work. I don't really understand the need to filter unpopular posts beyond that. The scoring system will still work because people will naturally be more inclined to read posts with a higher score.

Another alternative would be to keep the negative, but just don't display a score lower then zero. This would eliminate the "piling on" effect that sometimes happens with a negative score.

PS: By the way, the look is very clean. It looks better then I thought possible.

Where is that big ole smiley with his tongue sticking out... well, you get the idea.