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[ShadowLink64]

A few months back, we decided to run an experiment on the site by enabling negative reputation points.

Our assumption in this experiment is that the community could have the ability to self-moderate the site to a certain degree by putting negative reputation points on posts that they do not agree with. Negative reputation points also allowed for users to filter away posts that don't meet a certain minimum reputation threshold. The belief was also that negative reputation would discourage the member from making these kinds of posts in the future.

We can see that this experiment has failed in a number of ways:

• Those who take negative reputation to heart often can't come up with an explanation for why they receive negative reputation. For some people, there's really no good reason why they receive negative reputation. When there actually is a reason there, people don't seem to learn from it. Many PMs and reports to staff are about negative reputation point "abuses", and it takes up a lot of our time to investigate these cases individually.

• Those who don't care about receiving negative reputation are free to make garbage posts and receive a large amount of negative reputation without any consequences.

So there you have it, it's gone as of now. Only positive reputation points can now be given out again. Also, we will not retroactively remove any negative reputation that members have received.

Comments?

[Sweeney]

*rubs hands together gleefully*
SOON.

[ShadowLink64]

*rubs hands together gleefully*
SOON.

Soon, what?

[PinkRainbows]

knew this wasnt going work

[Sweeney]

Soon, what?

There'll be no rep at all

[Jaws]

Damn... didn't get the chance to use the button
Better this way anyway

[ShadowLink64]

There'll be no rep at all

What, are people going to complain about receiving not enough positive reputation points soon? They had better not. -_-

[Sweeney]

What, are people going to complain about receiving not enough positive reputation points soon? They had better not. -_-

People will complain about anything xD

[NapisaurusRex]

Those seem like good reasons to get rid of it...

[ShadowLink64]

Those seem like good reasons to get rid of it...

I try to have good reasons for things before I do them.

[Chappy]

I think I only used it like 2 times. @___@ and they were for Kami.

[Bone]

All good things must come to an end, I suppose

[tri]

Thank you Shadow! =) I am totally with this.

Edited by Dorkie, 28 August 2012 - 03:04 PM.

[Scot]

Good. With this out of the way we can move on to Codex Achievements!

Here I made a mockup

[Yung]

Okay well with the negative rep system disabled again are we going to get more positive rep allocated to each of us daily or is that going to remain where it is at?

[Waser Lave]

There'll be no rep at all

Never!

[Sweeney]

Okay well with the negative rep system disabled again are we going to get more positive rep allocated to each of us daily or is that going to remain where it is at?

Why would that happen?

[Nymh]

Good, now people will stop whining.

[Sweeney]

Good, now people will stop whining.

About that one specific thing, at least xD

[iargue]

This is why this was only an experiment.

It was shot down multiple times over the last year, but due to its high request amounts it was implemented as a test strategy. Every single argument against implementing it was true and as such, it was removed again. Good Bye, So Long, and Good riddance.

[Strategist]

What, are people going to complain about receiving not enough positive reputation points soon? They had better not. -_-

i know a select couple of people who will..... -_-

[Yung]

i know a select couple of people who will..... -_-

I already did complain. Didn't you see? lol.

[Junsu]

I guess it was coming considering I started to use +reps as a way to counteract -reps :<