One of the biggest sources of question and frustration on TBK's forums is the concept of legend points. What are they, and how do I get them? Why do I get them docked? Why can't I give legend points? So since John Calipari is creating virtually no news around Kentucky basketball between all the updated news blogs on UK recruiting, I wanted to provide a little bit of legend point insight.
A poster is eligible to give or take away legend points after he or she has contributed 100 posts to the site. The legend point system exists to allow our members to help pollce the site by providing feedback to the posting efforts of other members.'
In short, your legend point status is your online reputation here on the site. Just like your reputation among your real-life community, it will require a large amount of time and effort to build up a positive one; however, a negative reputation can be gained in one single solitary post if it's done just the "right" way.
General Guidelines for "Giving and Taking" Points
Posters deserve positive points for any of these kinds of posts: (and other tips)
- Delivering good news articles to the board that have not been brought to everyones' attention yet
- Delivering unique points of view to debated subjects
- Exhibiting a high level of respect for the program during more difficult times
- Adding points to conversations with some level of good humor. Humor wins points
- Be active with the legend point system. Look for good posts and let the poster know you're rewarding them with positive points. They'll more likely return the favor when you deserve one.
- Sometimes a poster may have come across a piece of "news" that they may be able to break on the board. It's often good to message the admins with these things, but if this information makes the board and proves to be true - it's a lightning rod for positive legend points.
- Do not abuse the legend point system - a good post deserves a positive point from you, but it's best not to get into awarding LP's to the same person every time your ability to award them recharges.
- Being incessantly negative. It's one thing to go against the grain or to "be a realist," but always looking for the cloud in every silver lining deserves some LP knocking.
- Passing off information from others as their own. While one poster might find a good article with useful info, link it, and add his or her opinion to a discussion - another might find the same article, not link it, and try to pass off the information from the article as their own. This might work a time or two, but if the poster is "caught," then negative legend points await.
- Generally being a jerk with a post. People tend to be more confrontational when hidden by the anonymity of the worldwide web.
- (See above) But attacking a person who is genuinely trying to help the board with information.
- Being disrespectful to the program, coaching staff, players, or potential players in the program. We don't want it here. It deserves legend point hits, but it also deserves banishment from the board.
- It's tempting when you just don't like a certain poster to give them multiple negative legend points. This is the worst abuse of the system. Someone deserves the LP knock when they write a bad post - and it's one for one. TBK does have the ability to ban a poster from using this system, and we do use it.
- Board administration can see both positive and negative legend point history. If you feel like you're receiving negative points for no reason, feel free to contact an admin so we can review to see if you're victim to system abuse.
The guidelines for positive and negative legend points are not limited to the above, but hopefully it provides an idea of what we're looking for. The important thing is to be consistent with how points are awarded and to not abuse the system.
Casey Johnson, TBK
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