suggestion to reduce existing reputation for upcoming season

[Kevin Sevcik]

I'll agree that that's pretty much all it is in its current form. It seems to me that for it to be truly useful, it needs to be some sort of reputation/posts system, or possibly only reputation gained in the last 2-3-4 months counts. Or if you're really fancy, rep points decay exponentially with time. I too have noticed the large swings that high rep members can create. I was admonished for a post by dave lavery once, but just given neutral reps. When he later gave me positive reps for another post, I can understand why he wouldn't throw around negative reps lightly. So yeah, some sort of weighting system would probably help keep the rep system somewhat relevant.