Reputation system upgrade

[sourisdudesert]

@madhattr999:

We removed all red thumb of players who gave more than 50% red (ie: more red than green). If you are in this case, you gave between 20% and 50% of red. At some point you will be able to give red again.

Cheers,

[madhattr999]

@madhattr999:

We removed all red thumb of players who gave more than 50% red (ie: more red than green). If you are in this case, you gave between 20% and 50% of red. At some point you will be able to give red again.

Cheers,

Thanks.

[gdBlaze]

I was wondering why I would get a mysterious red thumb every once in a while; I never though of 'player was too good for me'. Nice catch of that kind of abuse.

[tidda]

I've given 10-15 green thumbs in the past few days, and still the system will not let me give a red thumb. Is this because I have too many red thumbs already from before the system went into effect? If so, how do I tell what my balance is? I can't remove red thumbs from people because I haven't played with them recently.

I am not arguing against the new system, but there seems to be a problem with the implementation.

I am also facing a similar issue. I wanted to give a red thumb to one of the player who, after a defeat, made me wait a looong time and then exited the game.
Please advise what to do.

[glitter and doom]

In general, I think this new reputation system is very good. However, I have a problem with beginner's protection.

Today I played a hex game with a beginner.When he realised he was losing, he quit the game without explanation. In addition, he gave me a red thumb. It seems that he does that very often - he has very bad reputation, he quits the games often and has many red thumbs. Well, maybe it was my own fault, I should have restricted the table access (as I usually do). However, I feel it is unfair to receive a red thumb from such a bad player, and not being able to give a red thumb back. If a beginner has a red thumb protection, then he should not be able to give a red thumb either.

[Hollenbeck]

This system is still unreliable and even more worthless now because you can only give a red thumb every 5 green. If you play several people you have already given a green thumb to then you may not be able to give a red thumb when you really want to. Especially since it there is a time limit on giving thumbs. Not being able to go back to games over 12 hours?? or whatever it is and give thumbs means you'd have to play 5 new games with 5 new people to just be able to give on red to someone who really deserves it. Ain't nobody got time for that...

[Jest Phulin]

So, Hollenbeck, you are saying that you believe that more than 20% of the people here deserve red thumbs? You aren't able to find 4 good new players for every random bad player? You haven't built up a large number of green thumbs to be able to give any red thumbs? Is that what you are really saying?

[Hollenbeck]

You don't build up a large number of green thumbs because they EXPIRE. If I could give out a red thumb for every 5 green thumbs I have I could give a red thumb whenever I wanted. This system doesn't allow that pure and simple. If I have to play 15 games to give out 3 red thumbs to possibly deserving players I have to play for hours. Some games already take hours. It's flawed and doesn't work for every game.

[UnderwearMan]

Yeah this is a joke. As a new member I can't comment on a game and when a brand new player to a game leaves right after starting a game I can't even give them a thumb. That isn't cool at all. How about you take the training wheels off and just get rid of this lousy reputation system? We aren't children here.

[Jest Phulin]

You don't build up a large number of green thumbs because they EXPIRE.

I was unaware of this. When do they expire?