What are these "green blobs" I keep reading about?

[John Kennett]

Q What are these "green blobs" I keep reading about?

A For a while we had a "User reputation" system running where members could give positive or negative points to other people's posts. These accumulated as a "Credibility rating" for each member, symbolised by green dots (or "greenies") shown under their name for positive scores, or red blobs for negative scores.

After a while it was abandoned, as it didn't seem to really be adding much to the forums and was open to a certain amount of abuse!


Previous discussions:
No more credibility! Dec 04
Vive La revolution! Sep 04
The User Reputation system Apr 04

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