nmoira Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 I've lost 15 points in two days (6 about an hour ago) and am aware of at least three others in a similar situation. It's a mystery I'm rather curious to see resolved... I'm rather scared of logging in tomorrow. Is the hive itself rejecting me? :lol: Edited to add: This doesn't appear to be related to negative rep. There is no no feedback. Also, I'm not doing this for rep... I'm just curious. Please don't rep me for this... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 There is actually a discussion about this in the how-to forum. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom2GirlsTX Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 Seriously, wow! Of course I only have "baby" rep points, it could be another year before I see 2 squares so it has not affected me personally. Wouldn't that require someone to give you a negative for rep to go down? I wonder if we have a negative poster or we have newbies who are accidently giving negative and think they are giving positive? anyway, I am out of reps today or I would give you one (a positive one!) I like handing out the positive ones! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leighton Academy Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 I'm way too new to even realize how to check my rep or give out any to others. I hope the mystery is solved soon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracey in TX Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 I've lost 15 points in two days (6 about an hour ago) and am aware of at least three others in a similar situation. It's a mystery I'm rather curious to see resolved... I'm rather scared of logging in tomorrow. Is the hive itself rejecting me? :lol: Yes, I've noticed. A few ladies don't appreciate a strong opposing opinion and have let me know. But HUGS to those of you who can articulate (and not rep negate!) a well thought argument. No worries, what goes around comes around. Thinkin' you need a bit of rep sunshine :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted July 18, 2008 Author Share Posted July 18, 2008 There is actually a discussion about this in the how-to forum. :)I started that thread (unless I'm completely spacing the existence of another), but I'm just curious generally how many people are affected... and if anyone has any theories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted July 18, 2008 Author Share Posted July 18, 2008 Yes, I've noticed. A few ladies don't appreciate a strong opposing opinion and have let me know. But HUGS to those of you who can articulate (and not rep negate!) a well thought argument.No worries, what goes around comes around. Thinkin' you need a bit of rep sunshine :) This doesn't appear to be negative rep... there's nothing new in the feedback area. Sorry that's been happening to you and others though... :grouphug: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parabola Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 Yep, I'm another one whos rep just suddenly dropped a few points. I haven't gotten any new rep (good or bad) today, I haven't even posted here today until now, and yet my rep is dropping for some reason too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dayle in Guatemala Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 Several months ago I was positive repped for my opinion in a discussion thread (about 10 points I think) that was later deleted and those rep points also disappeared because they were related to a thread that was deleted, I assume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 Oh, I didn't notice you were the one who posted that thread or that you had already replied to my post there. It is a fact that message boards archive posts/delete threads on a regular basis. If the administration does not do that then the boards get clogged and slow waaaaaaay down. I know this is true because I've helped admin another board. In the past when threads were removed in which I got rep the rep was also lost. I know because I could see the comments from them and then I couldn't, not just by counting points. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genie Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 In the past when threads were removed in which I got rep the rep was also lost. I know because I could see the comments from them and then I couldn't, not just by counting points. It seems admin has a choice in the matter. I've had threads deleted and lost all my rep points, and I've had threads deleted and lost none of my rep points. So it seems there must be an option given to admin while in the process of deleting threads. If that is what is happening here (or archiving), why wouldn't they be allowing the rep to remain? We don't know what threads are being archived/deleted, but they are apparently old ones, so they must have been acceptable at the time they were posted. :confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tammyla Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 I'm no expert, but when a thread/post is deleted rep points can decrease. Sadly that happened to many from another thread that was questioned. I lost a few myself as did some others. I'll send a few more your way soon. I started that thread (unless I'm completely spacing the existence of another), but I'm just curious generally how many people are affected... and if anyone has any theories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted July 19, 2008 Author Share Posted July 19, 2008 I'm no expert, but when a thread/post is deleted rep points can decrease.The weird thing is I haven't noticed my post count going down. I had 3 or 4 posts on the 2000 thread, and the count went down accordingly for that (though the couple rep points stayed, at least initially). Then again, because that dropped me under 1400, it might have been particularly easy to notice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockermom Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 Seriously, wow! Of course I only have "baby" rep points, it could be another year before I see 2 squares so it has not affected me personally. Wouldn't that require someone to give you a negative for rep to go down? I wonder if we have a negative poster or we have newbies who are accidently giving negative and think they are giving positive? anyway, I am out of reps today or I would give you one (a positive one!) I like handing out the positive ones! You can see if you get neg rep. Of course, most losers are too afraid (of what, I do not know) to sign their name when they give out the neg. Sometimes it feels like we're dealing with a bunch of 12 year olds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKim Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 It seems admin has a choice in the matter. I've had threads deleted and lost all my rep points, and I've had threads deleted and lost none of my rep points. So it seems there must be an option given to admin while in the process of deleting threads. If that is what is happening here (or archiving), why wouldn't they be allowing the rep to remain? We don't know what threads are being archived/deleted, but they are apparently old ones, so they must have been acceptable at the time they were posted. :confused: On my board like this one, we have the rep system turned off. However, when it is on, and we delete a post or a thread, we can choose to either "hard delete," which leaves no trace of the post or thread, including doing away with rep points and lowering post counts; or we can "soft delete," which leaves those things in place and leaves it where the admin and mods can go back and actually still read the posts. We usually soft delete, but if the size of a thread were causing problems, I'd say a soft delete would probably not take care of the problems. Maybe this is what happened here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted July 19, 2008 Author Share Posted July 19, 2008 This response from moderator was in the other thread: Trying to figure it out, guys...believe it or not, sometimes we don't completely understand this software either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gretchen in NJ Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 This response from moderator was in the other thread: Yes, I saw that. nmoira are you still losing rep or is it just from those 2 times? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted July 25, 2008 Author Share Posted July 25, 2008 Yes, I saw that. nmoira are you still losing rep or is it just from those 2 times?AFAIK, just those two times... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runningirl71 Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 Has this been resolved yet, or are we still waiting for an answer? Last weekend I received rep on the "comfort food" thread. The next day it was gone from the list on my UCP. Just that one {it was 5 points} was missing. I thought it strange too. I searched for the thread and it still existed. When I went to my post and clicked on the scales it said I hadn't received and rep for that post. :confused: Just thought I'd let you know it happened to me too! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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