-rep suggestion

[Hecktix]

reputation is a good way of new members seeing who's trusted and who's not...

why get rid of something that's not broke?

if you think a -rep is pointless or revenge rep then just post in the pointless rep thread...............

when ever i join a new forum, i trust people who have lots of green bars and people who have red rep i dont trust or listen to...

someone might get lots of good rep and then turn around and be a total *** or turn into a troll but they'd still keep the green rep?
.......

Thing is, it's very rare someone has a red block on their post.

[myke]

Yes, but it still happens...

-rep isn't hurting anyone and its a good indication whether someone is respected or not.

[Circadia]

Well at the people who think it should be kept
Since I've joined the forum I have only ever been -rep for a good reason and the other two times were for a pointless reason! and i haven't seen anyone eles been -Rep atall since i have joined so i think it should be scrapped since its more or less been abandoned.

[Hecktix]

Yes, but it still happens...

-rep isn't hurting anyone and its a good indication whether someone is respected or not.

It's only happened twice in the history of this forum, one of them was pleke.

[Nemo]

It's only happened twice in the history of this forum, one of them was pleke.

was the other one msb?

[myke]

Well at the people who think it should be kept
Since I've joined the forum I have only ever been -rep for a good reason and the other two times were for a pointless reason! and i haven't seen anyone eles been -Rep atall since i have joined so i think it should be scrapped since its more or less been abandoned.

How do you know if people have been -rep'd... you don't.

and really? I'm sure I've seen more than just them with red bars?

I've seen quite a few people use -rep actually... some people quote someone and say '-rep, that post's totally unnecessary' and then continued on topic.

[Hecktix]

Yes Myke people do give -rep but it's extremely extremely rare that a user gets so many -reps they go below zero as usually these people are trolls and get banned.

I think reputation would be more useful if it was a record of how well a users done on the forum, reputation doesn't mean much in terms of how much respect you get on the forum and it never should be that.

[myke]

I didn't mean respect as in, respect respect... like, if someone posts something and has a higher reputation, it GENERALLY means that they contribute more to the forum - if they have a lower rep, they may not be as constructive or w.e.

I'd certainly listen more to the one with more reputation.

It'd be interesting to know how many of the people saying scrap -rep actually get -rep... or get upset when they get -rep.

[Mr-Trainor]

I really don't mind if -rep stays or goes. I can fully see why it should go in terms of causing arguments, so for that reason I feel it's a good idea that it goes

[Hecktix]

I didn't mean respect as in, respect respect... like, if someone posts something and has a higher reputation, it GENERALLY means that they contribute more to the forum - if they have a lower rep, they may not be as constructive or w.e.

I'd certainly listen more to the one with more reputation.

It'd be interesting to know how many of the people saying scrap -rep actually get -rep... or get upset when they get -rep.

Surely even if -rep wasn't around it would still work the same, the person with the higher rep has contributed to the forum more thus earned more reputation?

Looking through the thread, those who have said scrap it generally don't have any -reps recently (unless they have reported it and it got removed)