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The Jerk Meter


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One of the things I noticed that I feel needs to be addressed is the point feature.

"But IronTiger! You said you didn't care about your + count!"

I don't. But what I despise is people getting the points for being overtly hateful, condescending, and just plain a**hole-ish. I have seen it again and again, often the same group of people racking up points. This needs to stop, and I am increasingly viewing the "reputation" meter as the "jerk meter"...the more you act like a jerk, you get points. Acting like a jackass? Peeling apart arguments and making cheap shots at others' beliefs? What good have you done?

Look, to those who earn their points legitimately and aren't jerks...I'm sorry. But I just cannot tolerate the people who get rewarded by their "friends" for acting like, as Editor puts it, "assclowns".

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If I weren't in bed and on my iPhone right now I would SOO dig up a good Steve Martin photo and quote about Not needing any of this.. Except for this ashtray.. This ashtray and this thermos.

Dude, you should sleep on this. Don't get so worked up.

And anyone else responding to this, think before you type. This should not turn into a naming of names or a flame war.

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Dude, you should sleep on this. Don't get so worked up.

And anyone else responding to this, think before you type. This should not turn into a naming of names or a flame war.

I'm not the least bit worked up. I was trying to diffuse another dumb thread with some humour. I felt the need to respond because I know he is referring to me from the 'anything' thread. But you're right, I should have thought before typing and instead let this thread sink alone to the murky depths. I also should have just changed my avatar to Steve martin instead but that's impossible from an iPhone at midnight.

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Peeling apart arguments and making cheap shots at others' beliefs?

What's wrong with peeling apart arguments?

If someone is going to make a baseless, and often offensive claim, it isn't unreasonable to debate it with them. It's unreasonable to expect other people won't debate it.

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What's wrong with peeling apart arguments?

If someone is going to make a baseless, and often offensive claim, it isn't unreasonable to debate it with them. It's unreasonable to expect other people won't debate it.

This is true.

One thing I've noticed is that there is only a plus sign and no minus sign. Can we have the minus sign back?

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Crunch.. you just got a +1 from me.

IronTiger.. I don't know Crunch. I can't think of one single thread where we've had a significant back and forth dialogue. She's not a friend that I'm rewarding.

She get's my +1 because numerous times I've called you out for being a whiner or for the quality of your posts and she just echoed my thoughts.

I therefore agree with her sentiments and they earn my +1.... it could have been a newbies 1st post and those same words would have gotten a +1 from me.

Nobody is out to get you. Cleanup your posts, stop your whining, and eventually ya might start building up more +1s yourself.

As for why I singled you out in the Anything thread in comparison to our 3 lost posters... because you were the one who chose to reply right after Portent's "Quantity ≠ Quality" post with more mindless babble thus driving home the point to perfection. You asked for it.

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Crunch.. you just got a +1 from me.

IronTiger.. I don't know Crunch. I can't think of one single thread where we've had a significant back and forth dialogue. She's not a friend that I'm rewarding.

She get's my +1 because numerous times I've called you out for being a whiner or for the quality of your posts and she just echoed my thoughts.

I therefore agree with her sentiments and they earn my +1.... it could have been a newbies 1st post and those same words would have gotten a +1 from me.

Nobody is out to get you. Cleanup your posts, stop your whining, and eventually ya might start building up more +1s yourself.

As for why I singled you out in the Anything thread in comparison to our 3 lost posters... because you were the one who chose to reply right after Portent's "Quantity ≠ Quality" post with more mindless babble thus driving home the point to perfection. You asked for it.

I dont think of it as a "jerk" meter, its more of a how liberal are you meter....if you are a socialist, communist, or marxist...you get lots of green...if your Pro America, and think this country is on the wrong track...no green for you.

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I dont think of it as a "jerk" meter, its more of a how liberal are you meter....if you are a socialist, communist, or marxist...you get lots of green...if your Pro America, and think this country is on the wrong track...no green for you.

You're anti-American? Must be, considering you've already got the green +1 for this post.

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Marksmu, thanks for making me smile. I love when people do or say the exact thing you would expect them to!

Did you ever, even for a moment, stop to think that someone might not like your posts not because the person is anti-America, but because there is so often a complete logical black hole in what you've written? Like in your last post, where you in one sentence equate liberal, socialist, communist, marxist, and anti-America. And suggest that anyone who doesn't agree with you is all of that. It's pretty funny. I might even plus-1 you for humor.

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I dont think of it as a "jerk" meter, its more of a how liberal are you meter....if you are a socialist, communist, or marxist...you get lots of green...if your Pro America, and think this country is on the wrong track...no green for you.

I'm a moderate conservative. I love soldiers, and think Al Gore is an idiot. This upcoming mayoral race will be the first time in my 12 year voting history that I'll be voting for a democrat. I'm a +45. Theory busted.

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Marksmu, thanks for making me smile. I love when people do or say the exact thing you would expect them to!

Did you ever, even for a moment, stop to think that someone might not like your posts not because the person is anti-America, but because there is so often a complete logical black hole in what you've written? Like in your last post, where you in one sentence equate liberal, socialist, communist, marxist, and anti-America. And suggest that anyone who doesn't agree with you is all of that. It's pretty funny. I might even plus-1 you for humor.

There you go... peeling apart arguments....

IronTiger is sooo disappointed with you.

I'm a moderate conservative. I love soldiers, and think Al Gore is an idiot. This upcoming mayoral race will be the first time in my 12 year voting history that I'll be voting for a democrat. I'm a +45. Theory busted.

You too, with the peeling...

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You're anti-American? Must be, considering you've already got the green +1 for this post.

Ohhh schnapps! (err, 單元, or 스냅인 ?!)

But there he goes again...looks like Home Depot is out of "communist red" by Glidden again.

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This is precisely what I mean, and the "same gang" jumps on this topic. Calling my threads and posts "dumb" (Highway6), Crunch calls me a whiner, LTAWACS would like to get his hands on the Minus sign and attack my posts, and AtticaFlinch laughs at other posters when they make a statement that they trip on.

Like I said, people who make logical arguments and don't attack others beliefs or posts should get +1s.

Assholes should not.

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This is precisely what I mean, and the "same gang" jumps on this topic. Calling my threads and posts "dumb" (Highway6), Crunch calls me a whiner, LTAWACS would like to get his hands on the Minus sign and attack my posts, and AtticaFlinch laughs at other posters when they make a statement that they trip on.

Like I said, people who make logical arguments and don't attack others beliefs or posts should get +1s.

Assholes should not.

There's no way to hard-code this into the forum software, and moderators don't have time to police the pluses so why don't you just get over it and move on? A high plus score gets people nothing in life. They are not getting any advantage over you. Consider for a moment that many of your concerns are those of a kid who has not yet experienced some of life's more difficult "real problems" and wait a bit until you've encountered some of those before making more threads about how you don't have enough pluses and other people have too many.

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It's gotten to the point where I don't think I would ever give you a +1, just out of spite.

I think the only time I gave you a +1 was when you actually contributed something I genuinely appreciate.

Everything else is filler.

Just ignore the issue and it will go away. But this won't happen over night.

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There's no way to hard-code this into the forum software, and moderators don't have time to police the pluses so why don't you just get over it and move on? A high plus score gets people nothing in life. They are not getting any advantage over you. Consider for a moment that many of your concerns are those of a kid who has not yet experienced some of life's more difficult "real problems" and wait a bit until you've encountered some of those before making more threads about how you don't have enough pluses and other people have too many.

Actually, I've reached the conclusion that's not my political beliefs. It's either that I'm not old enough to drink (what, three years?) and I live in College Station. I'm younger than you, so you discredit anything I say. Talk about being closed-minded!

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Actually, I've reached the conclusion that's not my political beliefs. It's either that I'm not old enough to drink (what, three years?) and I live in College Station. I'm younger than you, so you discredit anything I say. Talk about being closed-minded!

I do not discredit anything you say based on your age, and if any person on this board complained about pluses I would tell them to let it go and that its pointless.

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Actually, I've reached the conclusion that's not my political beliefs. It's either that I'm not old enough to drink (what, three years?) and I live in College Station. I'm younger than you, so you discredit anything I say. Talk about being closed-minded!

I lived in College Station for 4 years, I can't say I enjoyed it much.

But no, it's not because you live there, though, I hope that you wise up and leave as soon as you can from that cookie cutter town.

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I think we should have the - back.

I think a proper jerk meter would be to say "you're being a jerk."

the - and + buttons are all fine and good way to see if people agree with what you're saying or if they're calling BS on it. If you don't have an opinion one way or another one it, simply leave it be.

I think that's our new minus-minus. a minus would be "Eh. Don't agree with you", or "You're so full of it." a minus-minus could be "OMG, you're being such a Jerk."

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I think a proper jerk meter would be to say "you're being a jerk."

the - and + buttons are all fine and good way to see if people agree with what you're saying or if they're calling BS on it. If you don't have an opinion one way or another one it, simply leave it be.

I think that's our new minus-minus. a minus would be "Eh. Don't agree with you", or "You're so full of it." a minus-minus could be "OMG, you're being such a Jerk."

A better solution, rid the "profile" attachment of -/+ and leave it attached to the post in question only.

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