Reputation system: stay or go

[Dirtbag59]

Originally Posted by Angry

I say get rid of it because it will never be used properly. However, if there are those who wish to keep it, then give the rep power solely to the mods. That way retaliation is prevented when 2 people get into a disagreement. If an opinionated moderator is in a heated discussion (not solely referring to Matty), then he or she can not dish out negative rep to the antagonist. It would have to be a Mod not participating in the discussion and the negative rep must be warranted.

This way all rep is dealt out fairly from the visionaries and moderators of the board. Isn't that part of a moderator’s job anyway?

I disagree. If the Mods become the only one with rep power, then this place will become brown nose central. Retaliation is rare, and usually the people that retaliate against people that give them negative rep for doing something stupid don't really have a whole lot of rep power to begin with, so if one of them does give you negative rep you're only out like 1 or 2 points. Plus there will probably be about 10 other people to give negative rep to the person starting shit. The most recent example I can think of is

Originally Posted by offfiss

I wish the Skins had a TE the calibur of Shockey. The guy backs up his loud mouth.

I doubt I was the only one that gave Offiss negative rep on this baseless argument, but I have never given negative rep to someone for disagreeing with me.