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Pottsy · 31st December 2006, 10:05

I thought long and hard about the rep system, and decided not to have it here. My reasons were:

The system is flawed - members can "trade" points to build rep artificially.
People who have a very high rep give lots of points, so a new user can suddenly get a huge jump if awarded rep from an old user.
It causes arguments.
Some of the most useful posters on here only post once in a blue moon.
It is not really in line with our hopefully slightly-more-mature-than-normal approach.

Thank you for the suggestion though - don't think I'm just dismissing it out of hand, I did wonder about it and thought that on balance, I'll leave it out.

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Pottsy Administrator Civinfo master Join Date: 10th April 2006 Location: Leics Posts: 5,468 Thanks: 22 Thanked 164 Times in 97 Posts iTrader: (0)	I thought long and hard about the rep system, and decided not to have it here. My reasons were: The system is flawed - members can "trade" points to build rep artificially. People who have a very high rep give lots of points, so a new user can suddenly get a huge jump if awarded rep from an old user. It causes arguments. Some of the most useful posters on here only post once in a blue moon. It is not really in line with our hopefully slightly-more-mature-than-normal approach. Thank you for the suggestion though - don't think I'm just dismissing it out of hand, I did wonder about it and thought that on balance, I'll leave it out.