Remove negative rep? Remove all rep?

But neither of them do anything. That's my point. It's not a very effective reward/punishment if it doesn't do anything. If having higher rep did something for you, people would care more about getting good rep. Currently, it does nothing, so I honestly couldn't care less.

Uhh.. You are looking right past my point.

Positive rep makes you look credible, negative rep makes you look like a dick.

Do you wish to look credible or like a dick?

I can think of a few forums where people collect neg rep to be badass or whatever.

Well that's fine too. I am just having a hard time figuring out exactly what KA wants the reputation to "do" for us members. IMO it does just what it is suposed to do, represent the opinion of members about another member. Nevermind rewards, the reward is the positive, or negative rep in itself

Uhh.. You are looking right past my point. Positive rep makes you look credible, negative rep makes you look like a dick. Do you wish to look credible or like a dick?

Without rep moderation, that is just simply untrue. For instance, D3v was the first person to reach 3 bars. By cheating. That doesn't make him look credible at all.

If rep were made public, and were moderated, it WOULD serve a bit of a purpose, even without having incentives for having higher rep. Either way, if someone doesn't give a shit about their rep, then negatively repping them won't matter.

This is my point. If it's tied into a shop system of sorts, you essentially MAKE people want positive rep, and encourage people to not be asshats, so they don't get negative rep.

Why are we still discussing this? WW will do something about it when he has time! Just stop talking about it!

Actually, the majority opinion seems to be that there's nothing wrong with it, so I have to plans to change it.

To be honest, for me to invest a lot of time in something outside of work, it has to be "fun", or "new and interesting." AJAX chatbox is "new and interesting." AJAX games are "new and interesting." Moderation systems are "old and boring." I will, however, try to convince myself that migrating to vB 3.7 is "new and interesting." Somehow...

Actually, the majority opinion seems to be that there's nothing wrong with it, so I have to plans to change it. To be honest, for me to invest a lot of time in something outside of work, it has to be "fun", or "new and interesting." AJAX chatbox is "new and interesting." AJAX games are "new and interesting." Moderation systems are "old and boring." I will, however, try to convince myself that migrating to vB 3.7 is "new and interesting." Somehow...

Can't you at least make all rep public?

Not that I know. The reputation settings are currently at their most permissive, with the exception that rep hiding is off.

You wrote the code for this site. Why can't you just change it?