I percieve a big future problem with rep

[Kev]

Maybe one way to solve this, I know the Thank You tried to address it (even though I don't even think it's a problem), is in addition to counting reputation points, count the number of times someone has been repped.

Kind of like a U.S. government checks and balances thing. Make 2 houses of reps. One where the Reputation points are like the House, based on the punching power of the person who reps you and one like the senate, where no matter the punch power, everyone's rep counts the same.

So say I rep you my full 21. You get 21 rep points and then there is a separate tally somewhere that just counts the 1 click I gave you. Don't know if that is possible but it seems like it could work. That way, you're still repping someone, the punch power still matters but the numbers don't get to inflated or if they do get inflated, you can still see who has the most overall clicks in addition to rep points.

I just don't see why we have different punch powers at all

I mean presumably by giving a higher punch power to users with higher rep then Saddo is acknowleding that veteran posters should have more status on the board..........

BUT with this new system precisely because of the punch power a veterans status is completely meaningless as it will be progessively easier to earn rep.

Right now its not too noticeable but by Christmas the most popular posters will have individual punch powers into the thousands and just a few months after that into the millions!

You're 1000 rep points that you earned in two years can already be earned in a single week here now and by Christmas people be earning uptp 10,000 rep points per day

Its the worst idea ever doomed to complete and total failure unless it gets changed


Actually looking again at Saddo's post he says he will cap the maximum punch power at 100. This prevents the wildly escalating punch power problem but just means that sooner or later, probably by May EVERYBODY will have capped out at the 100 limit, which kind of begs the question why have a variable punch rate at all?

So in the longterm what we will likely have is a rep system where a user can select from 1-100 points to give to another poster based on how much they like their posting.

Which is ok I guess but a rep point seems a lot simpler and fairer meaning people cant band together and high click each other to get up the rankings quickly.