SAVE REPUTATION and MC-MARKET [done]

[JayMC]

Well guys... I never thought I would have to make a thread like this, but here we go.

Fellow users of MC-Market, we are under attack. Everything we have built up over the years may soon be gone. Our reputation, our profiles, our dignity, all lost.

Mick is proposing we "grey out" and have the option to disable legacy feedback so that it's no longer of any use. This is all set to go down on January 1, 2020. For those that don't know, legacy feedback is reputation that was created before the changes a while ago.

It's simply not fair - Everyone should be on our side, the people's side. No matter if you've been active on MCM for years, are a staff member, or even someone who joined yesterday.

Imagine this: You joined MCM years ago and through your time here you've done hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of deals. You have amassed a pretty good amount of well earned reputation. Then all of a sudden, it's taken away.
--> Well now you don't have to imagine it; it'll become reality January 1.

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Very well known and respected members of the community will now look just like someone who joined a month ago. Here are a few examples:

Glove, perhaps the most widely known and respected member of this community, will now only have 12 reputation.

Chearful, a very respected member, will now have 3 reputation.

Kelsey would now have 2 reputation.

iNg, formerly at 37, will now have 2 reputation.

Need I go on? This will happen to countless members that use this site every day.

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As for me? I have already lost about 25 reputation and I fear I will be left at none once legacy goes into affect.

If Mick decides to go through with these plans, these well known members who have done thousands in deals will look like members who joined a month ago. After January 1, these well known people will look like other noobs in reputation.

This will also cause a large amount of confusion: new members won't know who to trust, some people will leave MCM forever, there will be more fights, and a whole lot more.

To conclude, this can be perfectly summed up by Chearful's response and the amount of agreeances it received:

Chearful, by the way, will be losing 167 reputation.


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I am proposing that reputation SHOULD NOT be tampered with. Sure, Mick and his team can change the system however they please, just don't get rid of reputation while doing it. People have spent years on this, don't take it away, Mick. For the sake of the community, don't do it, Mick.
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What are your thoughts? Something must be done. Be sure to 'agree' with this thread so we can save MC-Market before January. We don't even have a month left.

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Other thoughts from some members about this topic:

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And that's just a few... #SaveMCM

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[Orochimaru]

I went from 41 > 22 though some are banned and grayed out

 

[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,