rep not removing after someone gets banned

[Annabella]

Honestly, it would be really nice if your rep didn't go down once somebody has been banned!

 

[Norska]

Sure, it was like that a long time ago but they've changed it ever since. The rep is still there on your profile (marked in black) it just doesn't count towards your total. No point in this suggestion, they won't change it.

 

[Violet]

I've lost over 40 rep to this, I keep losing like 1-2 rep every other day. It's annoying but rEp WoNt CoUnt CaUsE tHeY aRe BaNnEd AnD tHeIr OpInIoN dOeSn'T mAtTeR.

 

[babaooo]

for real, just because they had been banned for whatever reason, doesnt mean their rep doesnt count- they still did completely valid, perfectly fine deals with us and should be counted. i would have 35 reputation right now but i have 18- idrc but like the deals still existed, idk why they shouldnt be counted.
this isnt me being salty btw all the deals we did with banned people are completely authorised, valid deals.

 

[Ally]

The reason it's done automatically now is because it was done in the past manually by reporting the reputation. Except now you can't do that, because it opens a dispute instead and reporting is disabled. There were a few reasons for allowing rep from banned users to be deleted I think. But imagine you'd be stuck with an undesirable reputation after someone was banned. Happened to me a few times, actually.

 

[Zyger]

It sucks. I lost 118 rep myself, but that boat has already sailed, and they're not going to change it back.

 

[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,