Great, thanks very much, although I doubt the people who say "Don't disagree or I'll report you" will be so eager to drop the proverbial stick.
Is this just a "please don't do this" or an actual offense to use the report system as a threat?

Originally posted by Pretendeer:

If it's in the rules, actual offense.

Also, rep will be removed very soon.

Excellent, that should improve the sense of community, without everyone threatening to report each other every other post.
I assume that the old heart system is replacing rep?

Old heart system - could someone be so kind as to elaborate on this? i've never heard of it before , have been using outpost for quite some time but it still had what there is now, the rep system. Thank you

Originally posted by System32Gremlin:

Old heart system - could someone be so kind as to elaborate on this? i've never heard of it before , have been using outpost for quite some time but it still had what there is now, the rep system. Thank you

Basically, if you approved of someone, you gave them a heart. That was it, there were no comments attached, just a heart.
Imagine the current rep system, with comments removed, so that only to tally of comments remained. That's basically the heart system.

Originally posted by Champelliot:

Originally posted by System32Gremlin:

Old heart system - could someone be so kind as to elaborate on this? i've never heard of it before , have been using outpost for quite some time but it still had what there is now, the rep system. Thank you

Basically, if you approved of someone, you gave them a heart. That was it, there were no comments attached, just a heart.
Imagine the current rep system, with comments removed, so that only to tally of comments remained. That's basically the heart system.

Have never heard of it before to but it seems nice =D

Originally posted by TFCOP Pretender:

If it's in the rules, actual offense.

Also, rep will be removed very soon.

Will we keep our rep? I have, for instance, 426 rep, which I've been building up. Will I keep that?

I think it was better when they could leave a comment but w/e...

Originally posted by mittens, the safe sex kitten:

I think it was better when they could leave a comment but w/e...

I think it's better for all to remove comments, as a general rule, they encouraged scamming, rep was almost never used on TF2OP, but scammers would often link people to it to try and get one over them.

I prefer the hearts.

Originally posted by 42oSmokeHaze S> 2 unusual pugi:

Originally posted by TFCOP Pretender:

If it's in the rules, actual offense.

Also, rep will be removed very soon.

Will we keep our rep? I have, for instance, 426 rep, which I've been building up. Will I keep that?

Yeah, you'll be left with a number of +s, but no comments.

Not like I'm against it, but what is the actual difference or rather, why from rep to hearts? It still can be abused, can't it?

Originally posted by Hollow Ichigo:

Not like I'm against it, but what is the actual difference or rather, why from rep to hearts? It still can be abused, can't it?

Not as much, since Outpost rep, (or hearts now) is generally not used as Paypal rep, it's generally not too dangerous for people to rep for no reason.
It can be abused a lot less now though, since people can no longer leave derogatory comments along with the rep post.

What's hilarious about this 'heart' junk is a lot of people (myself included) used the comment to say, "- REP, person was rude etc etc...". With this switch that detailed feedback is now seen as a positive regardless of what was actually being said.

Good job on undermining your own rep system.

Originally posted by mpol:

What's hilarious about this 'heart' junk is a lot of people (myself included) used the comment to say, "- REP, person was rude etc etc...". With this switch that detailed feedback is now seen as a positive regardless of what was actually being said.

Good job on undermining your own rep system.

You do know that you aren't supposed to do that. It was against the rules to leave negative rep, you're probably the reason they reverted to hearts, now that I think about it. Admins would have had to have spent too much time removing -Rep comments.

Well, I can say that I'm against this Hearts rollback. It was nice to leave an additional comment on other users, as it was a way to record really special actions, such as traders particularly nice or items gave away for free. It was perfect, why trying to fix it? Now all we have left is a meaningless number that reminds me dumb things as Reddit, Youtube, Facebook like button, etc. (BUT AT LEAST youtube has comments!) You can't distinguish anymore clever feedback from random +1s, how can this be a good thing?

Honestly I liked the old comment system better. In my case I leave actual comments instead of the usual "+rep nice trader" when the person I dealt with was actually very polite and not a jerk like most I've trade with.

Originally posted by Frozen Fire:

Well, I can say that I'm against this Hearts rollback. It was nice to leave an additional comment on other users, as it was a way to record really special actions, such as traders particularly nice or items gave away for free. It was perfect, why trying to fix it? Now all we have left is a meaningless number that reminds me dumb things as Reddit, Youtube, Facebook like button, etc. (BUT AT LEAST youtube has comments!) You can't distinguish anymore clever feedback from random +1s, how can this be a good thing?

You can leave such comments on their Steam profile. What difference does it make if it's on Steam or TF2Outpost, nobody reads them anyway. You'll just skim through them at best.