[Tardcore]

The TT story makes me think of a distant in-law relation who took a job resealing the parking lot of a small hotel.  He had no experience and absolutely no clue what he was doing, but somehow convinced the owner he could do the job.  Of course, he ended up buying the wrong product and basically covered their entire parking lot with a sticky tar that never really cured and ended up getting tracked all over the interior of the hotel and basically completely destroyed the place.
 
Sadly, there isn't much to be gained from suing stupid white-trash.

 

[mbkennel]

I was going to say that Schiit is one of the few companies that could benefit from a Facebook "fan" page, but then I got the bright idea to search for it (and there it was!).

 
A """facebook""" fan page? 
 
You're looking at it right now.
 
And his talking about "no social media"?  What do you think this is?  The real thing. 

 

[Currawong]

Maybe this is a good time to say this: Jason is now the member with the highest number of reputation points on Head-Fi (more or less the most "thumbs up" received). 

 
Before anyone asks though: I wont be giving details about anyone else. At present we don't intend to have reputation publicly visible. 

 

[Jason Stoddard]

  Maybe this is a good time to say this: Jason is now the member with the highest number of reputation points on Head-Fi (more or less the most "thumbs up" received). 

 
Before anyone asks though: I wont be giving details about anyone else. At present we don't intend to have reputation publicly visible. 

Hmm, interesting...but really not fair to all the other great individuals, reviewers, and MOTs in here. 
 
I have an unfair advantage, since you guys at Head-Fi were nice enough to give me a forum for this book. Which I really appreciate--I love writing, but I really can't justify the time to do fiction anymore, and I work best when I have a deadline. This "deadline every week" deal works very well for me.
 
And, for everyone who's voted up a post, thank you! I do appreciate it!

 

[reddog]

Thanks for all the great Schiit you have done for audiophile community, I love your products and the company's mindset. Have a great evening Jason.

 

[Ableza]

I was going to give Jason's last post a thumbs up but I don't want to artificially inflate his reputation rating. 

 

[wink]

Nothing like success to inflate one's ego, either.
 
Keep up the good moist brown.....

 

[walfredo]

  Maybe this is a good time to say this: Jason is now the member with the highest number of reputation points on Head-Fi (more or less the most "thumbs up" received). 

 
Before anyone asks though: I wont be giving details about anyone else. At present we don't intend to have reputation publicly visible. 

 
Cool.  Congrats, Jason.
 
@Currawong:  How/where can I see one's reputation?

 

[Currawong]

Jason: We appreciate your candid story about your business. A lot of people out there don't have the slightest idea how it is to do what you did, and do. 
 
Quote:

 
@Currawong:  How/where can I see one's reputation?

 
You can't. It isn't even privately visible. There are some thumbs-up stats on the front page though if you click on the area that mentions who posted the most today etc.

 

[SoupRKnowva]

or you could just go through every page of every thread and look at how many thumbs up every post has Im sure someone smarter than me could write a script to do just that...

 

[aamer23]

I really have enjoyed the Schiit  story so far and it have some great lessons in life too, I hope to employ of them too, thank you for your effort it is really appreciated 

 

[Maxvla]

At one point it was possible to see your own reputation and which posts generated it. It was only available for a very short time, but I would like to have it back.

 

[marcoarment]

At one point it was possible to see your own reputation and which posts generated it. It was only available for a very short time, but I would like to have it back.

 
Showing reputation metrics, even privately, is tricky to community dynamics. Nobody wants to be reminded that they have zero reputation, and knowing that you have tons of reputation can cause arrogance and exclusion. Anything that makes reputation more visible will cause people to view it as more significant, and can easily slide into spammy requests ("rep me if you liked this post"), unmet implied obligations ("that guy never gives any rep"), actual spam schemes (dummy accounts you create solely to give reputation to your main account), and class divides (which we already have by tying ranks to post counts and is the reason I didn't post here for years, but that ship has sailed).
 
With reputation being so relatively invisible now, most of these problems are avoided or minimized as there's almost nothing to gain by abusing the system, yet the positive effects are left almost completely intact.

 

[aamer23]

I agree that on special circumstances I think it correct to share this, however for general use in only my opinion it is not valuable. and would create a very competitive environment. I like the friendly and balanced approach on this forum in general.

 

[Maxvla]

I don't mean we should have a public tally of any kind. It was just nice to go through your rep'd posts and see who rep'd and if there were comments left. Often I will revisit a review thread after many months to find new reps and comments in the reps. It would be nice to be able to do this for all rep'd posts, not just ones you can remember to look at occasionally.