I saw this coming, Jean and I have voiced it myself, I have seem some bizarre Negatives, including some which are simply because I expressed my OPINION in very strong and non-negotiable terms.   I woul some further thoughts but that would guarantee a Negative vote. In short this is becoming utter nonsense.

Skip

Ken has assured us he is monitoring the system for abuse. I believe him. As has been pointed out though there are many votes that seem out of line to most but are left as is. The one negative vote I received I felt was unwarranted, but wouldn't most of us think that of what we say? That's what the system is there for. To point out posts that are offensive in some way to someone else. Who really posts with intent to be hurtful or offensive?   

If the negative vote stands (give it time to be reviewed by Invelos) then someone felt it was warranted. One errant vote won't ruin your reputation though, something to keep in mind.

Like any system this one will need time to get the bugs worked out. Give it a few more weeks and then let's see where we are at. So far I think it has helped.

I'ts not a good idea to enable votes on contribution notes! Let's be honest: We say: My No-Vote is not personally, but we can't avoid revenge votings due to mortally offended contributors! 

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IMHO the reputation system has many room for improvement!

Quoting Runmovies:

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I , would like to ask you What's are improper to my reputation with this ?

"No, Bad cover, French Overview all ready exist, Wy not just added Netherland overview,  as see on the back cover I Think it's  simple! Rating?,Etc.? ?"

I dont writte more since there where no place enough.

IMHO no reason to worry!

Quoting Runmovies:

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I , would like to ask you What's are improper to my reputation with this ?

"No, Bad cover, French Overview all ready exist, Wy not just added Netherland overview,  as see on the back cover I Think it's  simple! Rating?,Etc.? ?"

I dont writte more since there where no place enough.

I would never have given you bad feedback based on that "no" vote comment. BUT... I think the culprit may be the "I think it's simple!" part of your note. It comes across in a "What are you? Stupid?" kind of way.

Like I said, I wouldn't have given you bad feedback, but I suspect that line is what caused someone to do so.

KM

Quoting Astrakan:

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Now, I have absolutely no idea what you said or how you said it, but why express your opinion in a "very strong and non-negiotable" way? Was it impossible to get the same point across without using "very strong" wording?

I'm not saying you should compromise your position or your point of view, but is it really a bad thing to make an effort at expressing yourself as non-combatively* as possible?

Like I said, I don't know what was said, just responding to you calling your wording "very strong and non-negiotable" - which conjures up a certain type of posting style in my head.

KM

*I don't know if "non-combatively" is a word, but I think you get my point.

It isn't just the way people express their opinions...sometimes even the opinion should get a negative vote.  For example, in another thread, a user was accused of deliberately twisting and undermining the rules.  While that may have been the posters 'opinion', it could still be seen as an attack.

Throwing out insults, and claiming that they are 'just my opinion', doesn't make them any less insulting.  Oddly enough, JMHO. 

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Quoting skipnet50:

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I saw this coming, Jean and I have voiced it myself, I have seem some bizarre Negatives, including some which are simply because I expressed my OPINION in very strong and non-negotiable terms.   I woul some further thoughts but that would guarantee a Negative vote. In short this is becoming utter nonsense.

Skip

Now, I have absolutely no idea what you said or how you said it, but why express your opinion in a "very strong and non-negiotable" way? Was it impossible to get the same point across without using "very strong" wording?

I'm not saying you should compromise your position or your point of view, but is it really a bad thing to make an effort at expressing yourself as non-combatively* as possible?

Like I said, I don't know what was said, just responding to you calling your wording "very strong and non-negiotable" - which conjures up a certain type of posting style in my head.

KM

*I don't know if "non-combatively" is a word, but I think you get my point.

Very strong and non-negotiable is only used in certain instance, Astrakan. Suh as when a user either doesn't understand or refuses to understand...in which case one user put it correctly agree to disagree.

Skip

Quoting Ken Cole:

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I reviewed this earlier today.  Although questionable, in this particular case the same user gave a negative vote and a positive vote to the same user, possibly just trying the system out, so I let both stand.

As we've said, we are monitoring these.

Thank you Ken for jumping in and giving us an update. Glad to see you are monitoring it as you said you would (not that I doubted you  ) (... uh-oh...  )