As most of you know, we have a point system here on eroids that allows members to award points to others based on how helpful comments were to them. This system is clearly being abused and it's no secret who's doing the abusing. I've seen members get awarded points for insightful and brilliant one-liners such as "lol"...."LMFAO", and "No Homo", just to name a few.
When other members see guys getting points for such intelligence, it's degrading to them...especially when they've just spent an hour trying to construct a meaningful, helpful response to the question of a new member seeking desperately needed advice. In turn, they lose interest in making anymore responses because they feel like it isn't appreciated. It seems like more and more, ignorance and trivial remarks are rewarded with recognition...not to mention the fact that fanboys reward other fanboys of a particular supplier simply for singing his praise. Somebody please tell me how it's "helpful" to you to see YET ANOTHER "it's gtg" after seeing the first 50.
Starting NOW, if MODs see you with points that weren't legitimately earned, you WILL lose them, and YES, WE get to decide if they were legitimately earned. We realize you have no control over somebody else giving you points, but that doesn't mean you get to keep them...especially when they were given for bullshit. If you feel we are wrong, shoot us a PM and we'll discuss it. But the days of point-whoring are over.
Members handing out rep points like Obama handing out stimulus checks will be warned.....then point-docked....then banned, if need be.
Lets keep integrity of eroids intact.