I still think the 'need to spread' rep quota is too high

[Black_Apalachi]

I don't know the numbers but I say 'still' because I believe it was reduced not too long ago?

Admittedly I don't give out rep very much at all (mainly because I just don't think about it, more than anything else) but over the past couple of weeks I've been making an effort to show my appreciation of good posts more often. However pretty much every time I tried to rep somebody today and yesterday it wouldn't let me because I need to spread. From what I can tell I'm not the only one either as most members seem to give out a lot less rep on average than in days gone by.

We all know how much smaller the "main community" is in terms of how it used to be. So it's only natural that the same people will pop up with decent posts that you want to rep very often but it's unfair on them that the system prevents it. I think it's safe to say that the majority don't care *as much as they used to* about rep points so I think we're long past the days where it would be abused if the quota was really low. Of course there's the other extreme - where people will abuse -rep but I know that I very rarely give out -rep (and I only do so after someone has made at least 3 or 4 posts which deserve it). Similarly, I very rarely ever receive -rep (and most of the ones I do get end up being reversed).

Anyway, it doesn't have to be stupidly low, just lower than whatever it is now (somebody will have to enlighten me as to what it currently is, sorry). What do you think - do you find that you still experience the same difficulty with repping people or do you reckon things are just fine the way they are?

[Jamesy]

it's currently set to 30. I don't personally see any harm in reducing it, though management may have a reason again it

[Black_Apalachi]

Cool, what was it before it was reduced to 30?

[Blinger$]

The argument is pretty much always the same, people will just pointlessly rep to rep someone else again. And if we lower it then people can give out more rep then what its intended for. blahblahblah.

also, how many can we give out per day? 10?

edit: i thought 50.

[Black_Apalachi]

People only pointlessly rep because they need to spread it in order to be allowed to rep somebody else who already deserves it. I have noticed less pointless reps since the last reduction so reducing the limit again will only reduce pointless rep even further.

[FlyingJesus]

As if there are 30 people who deserve my rep let's be honest

[hah]

yeah tbh 30 is too high lol
i gave people rep months ago and i still cant give them it

[Tintinnabulate]

The argument is pretty much always the same, people will just pointlessly rep to rep someone else again. And if we lower it then people can give out more rep then what its intended for. blahblahblah.

also, how many can we give out per day? 10?

edit: i thought 50.

50 was the old limit
Maybe it should be reduced to 20?

[jackass]

30 is far too high. I think 10, but y'know!

[Black_Apalachi]

Even if they wanna keep it at 30, it should reset after a week or even a few days or something