Hide rep.

[Joshua C]

I suggest this to make disputed reps hidden or not-counted and blacked out.
Once the dispute is either won or lost make it normal.

 

[Joshua C]

The original suggestion meant:

When you're fighting a reputation dispute, the rep should be hidden until the dispute is over.

 

[Kram]

I feel like this can be abused. You can get a negative feedback that’s valid and then try to prolong the dispute for ages so it doesn’t come back. You can get negative feedback for scamming and then dispute it when the report was actually valid thus hiding this very important warning to other users.

 

[Joshua C]

I feel like this can be abused. You can get negative feedback that’s valid and then try to prolong the dispute for ages so it doesn’t come back. You can get negative feedback for scamming and then dispute it when the report was actually valid thus hiding this very important warning to other users.

Thre are PROS and CONS of this.

But something like a black color on the disputed negs I believe should be done, which actually shows that these are being disputed.

 

[Stefatorus]

This suggestion can be saved by making reputation disputes public and viewable by clicking on the disputed rep. It should be in a different color.

 

[Joshua C]

This suggestion can be saved by making reputation disputes public and viewable by clicking on the disputed rep. It should be in a different color.

Disputes should never be public because you provide a lot of proof in private convos that are unsafe.
I believe only a minor color change would fix it, so when it is disputed, it goes blacked out,

 

[Mick]

Back about a year ago we introduced some pretty radical changes to the way that we handle reputation. We made all reputation left by banned members be marked as uncounted in your reputation totals and disabled the reporting functionality to reduce abuse and targeted. The changes that we made were certainly controversial at the time, but looking back I'm a firm believer that the changes we made back then were the best that we could have made.

Our reputation system is very far from being perfect in its current state, and we fully recognise that. Since it's introduction we've changed many policies and spent countless hours developing new custom systems, such as disputing feedback.

At the moment we aren't planning to do any more development for our site until we can migrate to XF2. We're also not going to be making any changes to our policies surrounding reputation. Our system is stable at the moment, and making a change now when we're going to be redeveloping everything shortly isn't beneficial. Perhaps once we move to XF2 and have fixed all the bugs that come with that and have more time for some new development and to consider the impact that instituting new policies will result in.

Until then, I'll move this to denied. Once we migrate to XF2 if you feel that this is still relevant please create a new suggestion thread and we can look into it once again. Thank you to everyone for your support and criticism of our systems, it is definitely the best way for us to improve.

Thank you,