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Originally Posted by Amanda Morrison
I've heard an awful lot about reputation since the whole system started, and it seems that the consensus is that the system is fine.
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Er, it is fine. If you think I'm complaining about it, you're reading into my comments too much (and incorrectly).
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Originally Posted by Amanda Morrison
There are a few individuals that still complain - do you think the people with the most reputation are undeserving? Do you assume that since you have lower reputation points, which bring no rewards or prizes, nobody is reading your posts? I am afraid that in both cases, you are sorely mistaken.
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Also possibly a poor supposition, but you are partially correct; while the rep point system rewards the deserving, it also rewards the undeserving in a select few cases. Anyway, this is the point I was trying to make - the abuse of the system. I said in my previous post that I didn't take the system too seriously, so long as it didn't start to affect the quality of posts, though you appear to be ignoring that comment, instead suggesting quite the opposite. I presented an idea that rep-bait could potentially lower the overall quality of posts in very specific cases, and while I'm not going to point fingers, let me say that there's a huge case of this going on in certain parts of the Chit-Chat Forum. My point was that other people took stock in rep points too much, and that while I don't, it does result in prejudging, and thus not reading posts.
Edit: remember that my original thesis was that you've made a quality post if people want to read it. I probably have enough green dots for this to not be a problem, but others aren't so lucky.