Proposal: Loosen up "spread some reputation around" system

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Two parts to this:

  1. I just recently attempted to give positive reputation to a user, and was hit with the “spread” message. Looking through my history, I noticed that I had indeed given them reputation - negative reputation, some time ago. Why should this prevent me from giving the opposite kind?

  2. I don’t give out reputation that often, so I sometimes see this message when the last time I repped the user was over a year ago, having given maybe 10-20 since then. This seems a little bit over-sensitive to me… some users have a high density of high-quality posts, or controversial posts, and unless the system is being abused, it seems more annoying than anything else.

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http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/faq.php?faq=reputation_faq#faq_rep3

You need to give reputation to 10 different people before you can have a repeat. This limitation has been in effect for over a decade to reduce the impact of “rep wars”, where friends spam each other to inflate their dots.

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I know that, I’m making suggestions to modify that:

  1. Don’t count different types of reputation as “repeats”
  2. Add a time component, if it’s been more than a year it’s probably not spam

And it’s definitely more than 10, the guy I just tried and failed to give rep to has 14 between him and now.

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Send them a PM.