Reputations. Do they deserve more careful thought?

[Chris Hibner]

Back to the topic a little...

I can definitely agree that the system needs some improvement since it is apparently being abused in some cases. However, I don't feel that there's any need to throw out the baby with the bathwater.

Further improvements are always a good thing. I think the improvements about requiring a comment would be good. I also like the idea of just being able to give comments.

Before the reputation system, there really was a LOT of garbage on these boards. Since the reputation system, I must say that things have been cleaned up quite a bit. For that, I thank the reputation system. Can things be improved? Always - but I think this system is an improvement over the previous system.