Reputation rule edit

[Hubert]

You should be able to ask for rep after a deal. I don’t see why you shouldn’t be allowed to ask for rep. If you don’t ask for rep how should people know your reputable? So what I’m proposing is to edit the reputation rules. I’m just annoyed by the fact that asking for rep isn’t allowed. There’s nothing wrong with asking for rep after buying something. Big companies kindly ask buyers to review their product after a purchase. If they never asked there would be less reviews and people wouldn’t know if that company is legit or not. I just don’t see why asking for a rep after a deal isn’t allowed. Let me know your thoughts.

 

[Jdsgames]

From my understanding, this is already allowed.
However, it cannot be a condition or a reward for the deal.
So, the user is never obligated to post the feedback on your profile.

 

[Hubert]

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From my understanding, this is already allowed.
However, it cannot be a condition or a reward for the deal.
So, the user is never obligated to post the feedback on your profile.

Oh ok, thanks for clarifying.

 

[Ouzo]

Elaborating on that, even though it's allowed, you still shouldn't ask for a positive reputation, just for a reputation, meaning you should always accept negative feedback.

 

[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,