Members' profiles should not display the total amount of ratings they've received, nor posts they've made.
This is unnecessary; and is often being mistaken as reputation.
The whole reason people try rate boosting and post farming is to build up that count.
Because other members of the forums are stupid enough to use it as basis for determining how trustworthy a member must be.
Ratings are meant only to gauge the community's reaction to a specific post.
One single post. It's counterproductive to count them.
People make alternate accounts and give each of their posts a like because when you count them all up, it makes it mean something; it makes a difference.
But a single like on a single post means little to nothing, so removing the totals will discourage alt accounting.
It will also discourage users from trusting people just because of their rate count; since a total would no longer be available.
Removing the total post count will also discourage users from post farming.
No longer will people say "Almost at 200!!!" and then go on every other guy's account thread and say "Glws", being so proud of themselves now that they've got more ratings, and are to be considered "a more reputable member of the community".
Members of MCM should be judged based off each individual post that they make.
As well as the constructive feedback of the people who've dealt with them. Positive and negative.
This will be made possible with the introduction of the new feedback feature.
I believe removing the totals will clean up our site immensely. Greatly improve the currently corrupt system; and move us in the right direction as a forum and as a community.
Anxious for your thoughts.
(If you disagree, please post a reply explaining why this is. Otherwise I'll just assume you're voting thoughtlessly)
This is unnecessary; and is often being mistaken as reputation.
The whole reason people try rate boosting and post farming is to build up that count.
Because other members of the forums are stupid enough to use it as basis for determining how trustworthy a member must be.
Ratings are meant only to gauge the community's reaction to a specific post.
One single post. It's counterproductive to count them.
People make alternate accounts and give each of their posts a like because when you count them all up, it makes it mean something; it makes a difference.
But a single like on a single post means little to nothing, so removing the totals will discourage alt accounting.
It will also discourage users from trusting people just because of their rate count; since a total would no longer be available.
Removing the total post count will also discourage users from post farming.
No longer will people say "Almost at 200!!!" and then go on every other guy's account thread and say "Glws", being so proud of themselves now that they've got more ratings, and are to be considered "a more reputable member of the community".
Members of MCM should be judged based off each individual post that they make.
As well as the constructive feedback of the people who've dealt with them. Positive and negative.
This will be made possible with the introduction of the new feedback feature.
I believe removing the totals will clean up our site immensely. Greatly improve the currently corrupt system; and move us in the right direction as a forum and as a community.
Anxious for your thoughts.
(If you disagree, please post a reply explaining why this is. Otherwise I'll just assume you're voting thoughtlessly)
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