<p>I investigated users who started at “infamous” to see where the bug might be. I discovered that they all joined CC on August 19, 2004! You’ve gotta love computers…</p>
<p>Clearly that day will live in infamy! (I know, but I couldn’t really help it.)</p>
<p>Almost Famous…story of my life :)</p>
<p>Okay - I’m sure this is a silly question but here goes: when I rep someone should I tell them? I’m languishing with one square, my vote means little if anything, and I think I’m repping wrong. It <em>IS</em> junior high!</p>
<p>confetti, I am benched until this evening, and can’t rep, but you are on my list!</p>
<p>Also poetgrl, I’d approve your “infamy” post if I could, but first I must “spread some love around…”</p>
<p>Ok…odd man out here. What IS the reason for this new feature? To me it seems rather teenager-ish, and serves no real purpose. Maybe CC should have offered this on the High
School life area…or did the teens think this ideas too silly too? </p>
<p>I’m sorry but I fail to see any reason why this added feature is a good or beneficial one…not any reason at all.</p>
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<p>Well, that was my first thought, too – an addictive short-term pleasure that will quickly become boring. But consider the results so far – humorous interactions, people sharing what they have, people asking for help (points), people responding positively after a hard day after receiving contributions or kind comments. Isn’t all this exactly what we need (on occasion) to turn a message board into a real community?</p>
<p>Over the longer run, the kids that come here seeking advice will quickly learn to distinguish advice given by battle-harden veterans vs. the random musings of the blind leading the blind.</p>
<p>Jym- you are the leader!</p>
<p>Actually I’m not sure this rating system is anything but a contest for the poster who can garner the most likes. It really has no bearing on the quality or accuracy of the responses that person writes. Sorry to be the spoiler here, but there are many other ways this has become a good online community…some of the discussions in the cafe, for example. And some of the respected posters who post elsewhere…they don’t need little jewels to verify the quality of what they are contributing here.</p>
<p>I think this was just a way for the CC folks to create some traffic…and for some, it seems to have worked.</p>
<p>I’m with Thumper. I don’t really get it. I would rather talk about food, exercise, movies or even COLLEGES than little green boxes.</p>
<p>^^^^Agree with LI. It has been fun for me as a low poster to have an excuse to interact with more posters. I now see how many are much funnier than you can tell when talking about colleges. It just brings a new spirit to CC like a silly Holiday present. Plus it got me to look up the Meta-thread:).</p>
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<p>Or, in my case, little orange and red boxes.</p>
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<p>It seems to me to be totally illogical to come to a college information board to chat about food, exercise, movies. Unless you do so because you love to interact with virtual colleagues. However, if such is the case, you have already found your community – in that case, of course green-box collection is silly. </p>
<p>But if you haven’t yet found yourself comfortably there, this may help. Consider it an “Outward Bound” weekend getaway with office co-workers, where you take a few chances and learn to trust one another at a deeper level – even those you often disagree with.</p>
<p>It looks like it’s become a cute game that amused some folks for a few days. But it’s presented as a way to recognize authentically helpful posters. It seems to me that the actual use has been superceded by the game use, which will only attract a subset of users.</p>
<p>So if that amusement potential was it’s real purpose, it worked. If it’s really to show helpful reputation, well, some of the “gamers” may indeed be extremely helpful folks, but since that’s incidental to the game, I don’t see how it is helpful.</p>
<p>I think anyone hanging around more than a little while will organically and naturally figure out what answers help them, without having an artificial and maniputable system grafted to the process, which could be potentially misleading if used as presented.</p>
<p>So I guess I’m with Thumper and MOWC on this one.</p>
<p>Lorem- Did you deliberately leave out the part of my post that referred to talking about COLLEGES? I have no idea what you are trying to say to me. I’ve been on this forum since 2004, and have many virtual friends here as well as many I have met in person. Even though my kids are out of college, the search and application process is still an interest of mine and I believe I have something to contribute to the forum. Along the way, I have found many interesting topics to discuss that are not related to colleges. That is why we have the Cafe. </p>
<p>Again- your point was???</p>
<p>I have agreed with Thumper and MOWC since day one. If I was a newbie, this would probably do the opposite of what you suggest Lorum - it would either scare me away, intimidate me or just turn me off( as is true now)</p>
<p>The fact that we were all newbies at one time, have stayed around ( often for years) and that there are MANY of us like this, means that longevity and TRUST Worked without this system!!!</p>
<p>The Cafe was actually created so folks could have a place to discuss things other than college. I too, enjoy the threads there. However at the same time, I believe I can still be a contributor to certain discussions about college and financial aid (even though my kids are out of college now). </p>
<p>I also have “met” CC folks on a variety of ways…in person, through emails, and on the phone…in addition to some good dialogues here.</p>
<p>I don’t need a game of “likes” to continue that.</p>
<p>But to each his own.</p>
<p>And btw, the cafe ROCKS. :). Most days I don’t even come here to talk college anymore (though that will change prob next year when I have a HS junior)</p>
<p>“It seems to me to be totally illogical to come to a college information board to chat about food, exercise, movies.”</p>
<p>Lorem, if you think the abovementioned items are illogical, you should check out our discussions of toilets and colonoscopies :p</p>
<p>In the great circle of life everything is interrelated: SATs scores, toilets, movies, Harvard admissions, turkey recipies, etc. :)</p>
<p>I’m with thumper, abasket and MOfWC on this issue. Personally, I’m here not to win any popularity contests, I just want to hang out with my circle of friends (Although I did have some fun with the LGS last night. :))</p>