Member reputation status, Implement it! Options

[saintsaens]

Add a member reputation system so everyone can just negative rep a person instead of bashing. It'd relieve a lot of your problems too. Less bashing, less to moderate. It's a load off your shoulders.

Plus, it's an outlet for the people who are annoyed at said member.

[mipadi]

Well, first of all, I don't know if IPB even has the capability for user reputations. I'll look into it, but at first glance it didn't seem to exist. Even if it's a plugin, we can't install it without Jusun.

That said, I don't think it's a good idea. I think it would be better if the reputation was like Reddit's, i.e., you vote up/down threads and comments, and users gain reputation based on the popularity of things they have posted, as opposed to voting users up/down directly.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

Well, first of all, I don't know if IPB even has the capability for user reputations. I'll look into it, but at first glance it didn't seem to exist. Even if it's a plugin, we can't install it without Jusun.

That said, I don't think it's a good idea. I think it would be better if the reputation was like Reddit's, i.e., you vote up/down threads and comments, and users gain reputation based on the popularity of things they have posted, as opposed to voting users up/down directly.

I was an admin on an IPB board with user reputations once. Although the board was heavily modified.

I think something similar Facepunchstudios' old rating system is the one we need to adopt. We can't take that exact rating system, because they use vbulletin, but I'm sure there is a similar plugin for IPB.