[Mainland Marauder]

I'm all for it as long as there's not the option to vote down someone's reputation. It's not that I have a problem with the principle of allowing people to flag garbage as garbage, but in practice you get people who don't like each other doing it to antagonize and people get butthurt and it becomes a hassle from a moderation standpoint. Things don't go so wrong with just being able to give a thumbs-up to good posts. People tend to dig that sort of thing and if it encourages better quality posts, then all the better.

We'll inevitably have reputation whores just like their karma/commendation predecessors, but you take the bad with the good.

[AndyGanteks]

I don't think reputation would be a needed feature. I saw some forums have a +/- system where people can vote for each post + or -, or some like a post system, or "thanks" button in posts.
It doesn't get abused often, but all of those forums are smaller ones, while this has thousands of members, and as MM said, there will be many people wanting to abuse it to make those who they hate look bad, etcetra. I'm personally not for this feature, but i'm just saying my opinion.

[Spider-Vice]

QUOTE (Mainland Marauder @ Wednesday, Jul 25 2012, 08:42)

I'm all for it as long as there's not the option to vote down someone's reputation. It's not that I have a problem with the principle of allowing people to flag garbage as garbage, but in practice you get people who don't like each other doing it to antagonize and people get butthurt and it becomes a hassle from a moderation standpoint. Things don't go so wrong with just being able to give a thumbs-up to good posts. People tend to dig that sort of thing and if it encourages better quality posts, then all the better. We'll inevitably have reputation whores just like their karma/commendation predecessors, but you take the bad with the good.

But then you forget the 'friends' of some members who might just upvote posts so the member looks cool around the forums and what not, a reputation system has worked bad, in my opinion I think it should be left as it is, without one.

[nic_23]

QUOTE (Tank @ Tuesday, Jul 24 2012, 20:33)

A reputation system will be part of our new forum software. No ETA, but we're actively working on it.

well this is a good sign, i am sure you guys will do a great job of it like always

[deepthroatgta6]

To avoid circle jerking, the names of members can be listed in the person's profile so that everyone can see who gave the rep points and there can be a small area (like the medal details pop up) in which the member would have mentioned the reason why he gave positive or negative points.

Also there can be a per day/per week limit for a member for distributing rep points. This will make the points valuable and not easy to part with.

Auto rep points can be earned with each passing months for being active. Bonus points for a year, perhaps. Rep points can also be combined with current medal system.

Basically I'm describing the weed-forums' rep system but they give too much priority to post counts which can only suit small forums and not this one.

Thanks for the confirmation, tank.

[Mainland Marauder]

There's another forum I'm familiar with that has one where you cannot give another reputation point/vote to a person after the first one, until you have done the same with a set number of other users. I think 20. So at least the circle has to be a little bit bigger, so to speak, than the same group of four or five people. People will vote up the people they like, that's natural.

[Ferocious Banger]

QUOTE (deepthroatgta6 @ Wednesday, Jul 25 2012, 22:17)

To avoid circle jerking,

[universetwisters]

That's a good idea to be honest!