Reputation

[FisherGee]

i don’t mind the new reputation system, but you can’t just say you’re going to delete all our hard earned rep on dec 14 just because we didn’t attach proof when there wasn’t a button to do it before.

I lost 70 positive rep and it’s impossible to contact every person I’ve dealt with in the last 2 years to get my rep back. So I’m just losing rep because you guys didn’t have the feature.

It should be starting now you need to have rep proof, not dating back to years ago. You’re taking reputation we have worked hard for.

Users like me have followed the guidelines so you can’t take it away when rep evidence wasn’t a thing. You’re de-crediting my 2 years worth of work, just because you guys didn’t have the new system.

If this doesn’t get changed this is probably gonna be one of my last posts as I worked hard for each and everyone of my rep - and you’re punishing me for an addition you didn’t have before.

 

[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,