Suggest How to Fix Rep

Currently, reputation isn't representing what it should be. When I see someone's rep, I want to be able to determine what quality poster they are. Do they do nothing but mindlessly spam? Do they welcome new members and help people who need help? Are they generally nice and polite to people, or are they a dick?

If reputation were somehow changed to accurately do that for me, I would no longer think it is useless, EVEN if there is no reward for having higher rep.

So, the point of this thread is to offer up suggestions to tweak the system to where it is no longer in the pointless state it is currently in, so that we can use it as a tool to actually rate a poster.

Here are my suggestions:


Make All Rep Public - Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like this is possible, but if it were, I think it would be a good start.

Show Rep Statistics Publicly - At the very least, we should figure out a way to show some sort of "statistics" publicly regarding everyones rep. For instance, I think we should be able to see something like this:

These values are not real, just made up for sake of explaination. People who have recieved rep from !King_Amazon!: Mjordan - 24 Rep, 20 positive 4 negative Grаν¡tоnЅurgе - 18 Rep, 12 positive 6 negative D3v - 43 Rep, 4 positive 39 negative Thanatos - 12 Rep, 10 positive 2 negative Total Rep Given=97, 47% positive, 53% negative People who have given !King_Amazon! rep: Mjordan - 19 Rep, 17 positive 2 negative Grаν¡tоnЅurgе - 15 Rep, 10 positive 5 negative D3v - 57 Rep, 3 positive 54 negative Thanatos - 10 Rep, 7 positive 3 negative Total Rep Recieved=101, 37% positive, 63% negative

While this would be similar to public rep, it isn't exactly the same thing. With this, we could see what exactly someone is up to. If we see that D3v has been positively repped 134 times by Afroman, and 95% of D3v's rep comes from Afroman, we might get a little suspicious and eliminate any data that could be skewing accurate representation of D3v's reputation.

However, this suggestion is likely impossible, since it would basically require the same thing as public rep.

Have Rep Be Moderated - Simple enough, and I'm sure it's possible. To keep bias from being a factor (for instance if someone negatively reps me and I don't agree with it) require a second moderator or an administrator to approve a rep deletion, if possible.

Require a Certain Number of Characters - I think this one is necessary, simply because if you're leaving someone rep but no feedback, you're not doing any good in helping them improve their posting. Require a certain number of characters similar to how posts are currently. This would also help moderators decide whether or not rep given is bullshit rep. I know I've personally received negative rep from people on a random post with no apparent reason for it, and no comment left.


I think that's all I've come up with so far. Feel free to comment on any of my ideas or suggest your own. Let's attempt to fix this system.