Ok what do those little green bars mean?

Thanks, Mark... at the very least I will disable mine. Anyone been able to find the "User Control Panel"?

[FONT=Verdana][B]au-ra [/B]An emanation said to come from a person's or an animals body. ..Is this a good or bad thing?[/FONT]

Hey Greg....Green bars or not I still think your a great member here!!!!!!!

If I ever figure it out I'm going to disable mine also.

Rick

I think that the administrators need to enable this because it should be in general settings between Invisible Mode and VCard Download.

Good comments, everyone. I hope, fer chrissakes, no one thinks this is sour grapes on my part for not having more than two bars - I don't give a damn! In fact, I'd encourage everyone to give me a bad rep mark just to see what happens...

Thanks so much, Jeff and Rick, for the very nice compliments!

Bob - thanks for your always-reasonable point of view. But I think this is quite different - the "kudo count" was a very objective tally of how many people have given you a "kudo", where this is some kind of subjective ranking based on "reputation" where people can give you a bad "rep" just because they don't like you. And if it's true, as Jam mentioned, that this is common on discussion forums, then that is a good enough reason why I don't frequent any others and why I'm getting wary of this one...

I hope the Moderators see fit to disable this feature. It's scary in a "Big Brother" kind of way, and highly inappropriate, in my mind, in a place where we're all friends.

The more I think about these green bars,the more I think they will play a big part for when the auction board fires up??????

What do ya think:confused:

Rick

That, I could accept if they were an objective measure of a person's repuation [I]as a buyer or seller [/I]- like feedback on ebay[I].[/I] But from the Q&A description, that's NOT what they're about.

My hunch is they [I]should [/I]have nothing to do with the sales site Rick.

I have to agree..I'd say the intent of RLOL,is as ab info board. While we are a community..this isn't a popularity contest.

F.

If it is reputation I don't think it's that much different then kudos, yes someone can give you a negative if they don't like you, but since as you said we're all friends here I'd say the good reputations given would FAR outnumber the negatives, thus still giving you a positive rep. It might not be AS good if you didn't have people who don't like you, but I find it EXTREMELY hard to believe that any member here could get a negative reputation undeservingly. My 2 cents to throw into the pot.

2 cents noted, Matt, but it doesn't matter whether it's "fair" or not, it's still being calculated by some "Big Brother" machine somewhere to establish whether....

"groggerbug has a spectacular aura about"

or

"rdln66 is infamous around these parts"

WTF is that???