Prevent Users From Creating More Than One Negative Reputation On a Specific User

[Lyfe]

Hello,
As of now, nothing stops this scenario from happening:

User 1: Places a negative reputation that breaks the rep rules on User 2
User 2: Disputes the negative reputation successfully and gets it removed
User 1: Adds another negative reputation on the same user for something else

Considering that User 1 can just dig through random posts and try to find anything, this reputation is technically allowed and User 2 has to go through the long dispute process again. User 1 can just keep adding back negative reputations an unlimited amount of times, rendering disputes essentially useless. This happened to me; a user got his negative reputation removed and simply just added it back with some small changes. It still violates the rules, but that means I have to go through the entire dispute process again (which took 2 months the first time).

This should not be allowed on MCM - it is an oversight in the rules that allows users to place false negative reputations that break the rules on others as much as they want. After placing feedback on a specific person, if it is removed, the "Add Feedback" button should be greyed out and unclickable.

Lyfe

 

[Norska]

I think you get warned for abusing the reputation system if you keep on adding reputation after it's removed. At least that's what happened to someone that did the exact same thing to me a while back, kept adding it with small changes every time.

 

[Lyfe]

I think you get warned for abusing the reputation system if you keep on adding reputation after it's removed. At least that's what happened to someone that did the exact same thing to me a while back, kept adding it with small changes every time.

The guy who left me another reputation according to one of the feedback mods didn't break the rules so :/

 

[Lotus]

The guy who left me another reputation according to one of the feedback mods didn't break the rules so :/

It didn't break the rules... so it is valid?
I'm not sure what the case is here if the reputation accurately portrays a certain user's experience with you.

 

[MarkElf]

If someone is digging through your posts (I still want private profiles back to prevent post digging and abuse of reactions like funny), then delete the specific post that you're being reported for and dispute the reputation again. If you won the dispute the first time over the same thing, after another small headache you should win the other.

 

[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,