Reputation System Scrapped
 

After numerous cases of abuse, the reptuation system has been scrapped. I realize in retrospect that it took a bit away from the "friendly" atmosphere of the community, as members expressed their pleasure or displeasure of other members on the site.

Re: Reputation System Scrapped
 

I am sorry you had to scrap the reputation portion of this site. I considered it a very important part of the system and will miss having it available.

In my early days on this site, I would look carefully at the reputation before I would take a bit of advice seriously. For someone entering into the forum, looking for a quick answer or bit of advice, that reputation number is invaluable.

I have participated in several other forums that have reputation or karma calculations, and have never seen problems. However, they had some rules about the calculations that seems to help (EG, Discussion of reputation in a thread was strictly forbidden, the post would be removed immediately).

Hopefully, you might consider to have it return after the excitement from this week's activities subsides.

Re: Reputation System Scrapped
 

For the clueless -- what abuse ?

Re: Reputation System Scrapped
 

In particular, between a certain member, his other aliases and a couple separate members. In the future I will reconsider the reputation system, but for now it's simply not an option.

Re: Reputation System Scrapped
 

Are your saying the system was gamed ?

I understand why a person would inflate their Ebay ratings -- but GH ?!??

Re: Reputation System Scrapped
 

Sad isn't it?

Re: Reputation System Scrapped
 

So long as any form of system exists, there will always be someone who wants to cheat the system.

Re: Reputation System Scrapped
 

I thought you could regulate how many times a person could give reputation to another user. In another forum people are pretty much limited to gving rep once to any other individual.

Re: Reputation System Scrapped
 

I'm since been told the abuse was in giving multiple negative ratings to one of the members by using aliases.

I'm kind of surprised that a new member has any rating power at all, actually.

Re: Reputation System Scrapped
 

Not exactly how it worked, but let's just leave it be :)

Re: Reputation System Scrapped
 

Ok, I suppose Jason and others won’t be so happy that I’m going to add my 2 cents to what should be a dead subject, however I never really understood what we were supposed to be doing with the reputation system. It seemed really complex. I’d like to think I’m a fairly intelligent guy, with poor spelling skills, however the two values just didn’t seem to correlate and I know that I wasn’t offering feedback on most posts. Not because they were poor posts, but because it just didn’t seem necessary.

Oh well. If there were a more simplistic system available through your BBS software, could that be implemented at a later date? People game systems which are overly complex. There is less opportunity to game a system which is simplistic beyond belief.