Idea

I don't know if this is the correct forum..

but when you report a post, I think you should recieve a reputation point :d

No 'cause then everyone would report every post.
It should be that if you report a post and action gets taken, you should.

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Originally Posted by PaintYourTarget

No 'cause then everyone would report every post.
It should be that if you report a post and action gets taken, you should.

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He is right. People would just abuse the system, and report posts that do not need to be. Maybe if you report a post, and if the (S)MOD thinks it is worthy of it, they can +rep you. But, even then people would just create more work for the (S)MOD's, but it is still a good idea.

As said above, people may abuse the system and also if 1 person reports a post that someone else has... could cause caos on who gets the point as checking the time when it was posted would be annoying/hard work for mods.

Disagree as like people have mentioned it would be abused and Professor-Alex probably looked at post reports when he judged the moderators but if that was introduced he wouldn't be able to tell who put the voluntary effort in and who done it for the reputation.

Great Idea actually - but the idea suggested only when super mods approve it was helpful.

Edited by Hayd93(Forum Super Moderator): Posts merged due to forum lag.

thats actually desperate, no?

In all honesty, I don't think it's an idea that will be put into place. It would get abused either way.
Kudos for the idea though.

I forgot to mention it should only be for posts that break the forum rules.

I don't think it's fair if you've reported a post for being helpful or not, as long as it breaks the forum rules and a Moderator hadn't yet spotted the post then the user should recieve rep :)

It's great that you're thinking of new ideas but I think this one has too many negative points. Like has already been mentioned people would find a way to abuse it to gain reputation points. Like Brandon mentioned, Professor-Alex might want to use the report posts function to determine who would be a successful moderator and if this idea was to be implemented he wouldn't be able to differentiate between people using it merely for the reputation or people trying to help the community. Like I said, great to see you suggesting ideas to help, +rep :)