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since I posted earlier...I responded... a shrep from a nice lady .... then it's all disappeared....must've clicked the wrong button....reason I never attempted it before...fucked if I can suss it.
Quote by DM_Couple
This system seems very unfair or it's broken?
Despite the fact we've been here for a few years on and off, we only turned it on at the start of this week. Since then we've left rep every time we're prompted, feels like at least 20 times and so far only 2 people have left it for us. Now I know you could easily think we must be horrible and no one wants to leave rep for us, but we only have poilte, friendly exchanges with people even if it's a no thanks. So what gives? Are they just ignoring it or are we being prompted to leave rep and they're not?
Might as well switch it off again if people can't be bothered to use it fairly smile
Any thoughts?

r u leaving it for people you actually know ? or have chatted to??
it seems a funny thing this sherp.
i have met people from here and all i seem to be able to do is say i have exchanged mail or they have become friends.
also how many are clicky friend from chatrooms who have actually met?
Quote by ip-man
it seems a funny thing this sherp.
i have met people from here and all i seem to be able to do is say i have exchanged mail or they have become friends.

If you want to give SHrep for a meet you have to arrange it in SHrep beforehand. I know that seems a pain, but it makes the whole thing 'official' by having both parties agree to the arranged meet, and then giving them the opportunity to SHrep each other. If it just let you SHrep for meets on the fly it would invalidate the integrity of it.
Quote by twos_company
r u leaving it for people you actually know ? or have chatted to??

This has been answered in the thread, but needless to say we've certainly changed what we were doing.
It seems odd that the system is so stringent on meets but prompts you to leave Site or Vouch rep within 2 messages or the moment you become site friends with someone. I'm glad we sought everyone's advice here, but I suspect because of this 'prompting' the system is already being misused by many people.
We're seriously considering turning it off again to be honest. The fact is we're a totally honest couple with a reasonably detailed profile. We're always polite to anyone who's actually read our profile (and many that haven't) which is all part of us always treating others the way we like to be treated. We don't leave any messages from anyone unanswered or sitting there for ages. In other words we are we believe a thoroughly decent couple who do exactly what we say on the tin and we don't feel we should need any another mechanism to reinforce that. In other words if people have any doubts about us or our sincerity then they wouldn't be the right people for us to meet in the first place.
Still thinking about it, but this thread and the concerns some appear to have with it being misused, and knowing how it is already misused, would seem to render it pretty pointless. Unless we missed something?
Quote by DM_Couple
Unless we missed something?

The unbeatable gossip value? lol I am also an on-off SHrep user, the jury's still out. But I do like reading comments others have left, esp. the juicy ones (don't necessarily mean sexual content, sometimes a comment is very inspired and says more about the person than what the person has to say about themselves).
Someone recently hinted that I wasn't investing much effort in the comments I've left on other's SHrep, and I have to admit it's put me into a situational quandary: I want to SHrep but I find myself typing and then withdrawing from the submit button.
The stark realisation is that SHrep is permanent - whatever I write will be there for time immemorial. So do I continue in the same vain with short, barely comedic drivel, or do I struggle in the search for the more meaningful? Oh, the pressure!
:shock:
So after all this discussion we disabled shrep again... it's off, disabled, deceased, dead... So how come it's still being presented on any messages we send?
Something's not right.
DM
It's not instant, you may have turned it off this morning but we believe the rest of the 'switch off' happens as part of a system update that runs in the background later in the day/evening.
However if your still having this message 'issue' tomorrow a Support Ticket http://www.swingingheaven.co.uk/support-tickets/new-ticket.html very quickly gets it sorted
Thanks for the advice. I'm fairly certain it's been off for 3 or more days, but there's a possibility one of us re-activated it again yesterday then switched it off again. I'll do as you suggest and leave it a while.
I'm becoming quite familiar with support tickets smile
Thanks.
Opened a support ticket just now because even after a week of having Shrep disabled it is still appearing on all our sent messages. It even has the statement... ""Dm_couple currently has Shrep enabled, if you would like to leave them feedback then you can enable Shrep by clicking here.".
Could someone else who has once had it enabled and then disabled it please check their sent messages and see if you have the same problem? I'm just curious if this is a personal problem to us or a site wide issue.
Regards,
I'm sure the support ticket will get the focus it needs to resolve the issue for you, but in the meantime I'll have a stab at what I *think* might be happening:
The on/off switch for Shrep simply removes it from view - it doesn't delete it. If you switched it off and later wanted it back again, it would be wrong to have to start over again. Now I suspect the flag to hide it has not been embedded correctly in the sent mail template, so although it still shows up there, it's not actually leading to anything.
Of course, I'm onky speaking from a layman's standpoint, but I'd be happy to test that theory if you want to send me a quick PM. That way I can see if it really does show up in sent messages.
I'm sure you're right. I know if someone clicks on the shrep banner then they get the message we have it disabled. So clearly that's working in that it is disabled and I suspect you're right it's just not hidden from the message template correctly. I was just curious if this was something others see too or if it's exclusive to us smile