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Originally posted by WDZ
True, I guess... certainly an advantage of the post-system.
Well, but in a per-post system, if I voted 30 posts of WDZ positively, if he turns to be extremely disturbing, I'll need 30 more posts to get him to negative in the reputation I give him. In a per-user, I just change my general opinion of him.
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
I think everyhting should be public... That way, if somebody has a grunge on somebody. The negative vote (including the voters name) will show up for everybody to see between the positive ones. The voter can indeed leave a blank comment (or "none"), but it will still be suspecious if only he voted negative. And since it is public, we all can see who that person is (and if this happens again and again with him/her, measures can be taken)... I hope I explained it well 
It's almost exactly as how the ebay-system works btw... But in the eBay system you can even select a user and not only show all the votes he got, but also show all the votes ha has given. This is an excellent system to find out if somebody's vote is something valuable or not (if he always votes negative, you now his vote means shit...) Again... because it is public, you will rule out many abuses...
I agree.
It should be public, with optional comment.
And if it ìs public, showing all the reputations someone gives is not an invasion of privacy, and I vote for that too. For example, if I am a new user but am a friend of (say) chrono, and I trust him, reading all his reputations given will give me a trustworthy description of other users.
Conclusion:
I vote for public, optional comment, shown in profiles as in my screenshots (and also ability to show the given ones).
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On eBay, I can understand having everything public. If you're rating a seller, a person that you send money to, you have a right to see exactly what people think of him/her.
The reputation system is for people to know what people think of other users. If you think it's not needed for a forum, then why adding it in the first place?
It's the same.
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Suggestion: If you want to make it for everyone, and you want to control all those maybe not very accurate POST-rates. Give the members the option to report rates!
There's no point in having objective reputations if someone (elite members) will say which are acceptable and which are not. Remember, mods, admins and elites will be rated too. No way.
Reputation: users or posts?
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