Guild Wars 2

gesho.9468 brought up a good topic, or at least I thought it was, in the PvP subforums. Figured it would be better off here so here it goes.

I think a reputation system on the forums would be great for many reasons. One of the main reasons is giving the community the decision if what someone posted in response to another player was offensive to them. If it wasn’t then no harm done right? If it was, then -1. It would also give credit to people who are making great topics that the community agrees on as well as showing that that person with a good amount of reputation has a good post to look forward to and sit down and read since his reputation is great. Of course there would need to be ways to prevent abuse and I think a simple system could easily do that.

• In order for you to give someone a bad rep (-1), you need to yourself have a good rep. An example would be that in order to give a -1, you yourself would need to have a +5.
• In order to give someone a positive rep you need to be in the positives yourself (+0).
• You are only able to give out one rep a day
• You can only give one rep per post

This would prevent:

• People trolling and giving people bad reps because they can
• People with bad reps giving someone a +1 on a terrible post because they’re being a troll
• Prevent people from spamming the reputation button
• Prevent people from repping the same post to get it noticed

Another suggestion would be once you hit -5 you get flagged and a moderator can evaluate your posts and see if you’re needed for punishment such as not being able to create your own threads for a certain amount of time, being able to post only once every 10min, or a temp ban.

I dunno, what do you guys think? I think it would be a great system so that us, the community has control over if someones post was negative or not rather than getting infracted for things you don’t agree on. For example, awhile back I was infracted for calling someone a liar. I thought it was a little bit over the top to get infracted for it. But hey, that was a long time ago and I was just using it as an example. Post your thoughts.

In my opinion, I think this could clean up the forums a bit. In this I mean, not by keeping people from posting things that they don’t like about the game and would like to change. I mean, in the manner of their post. A lot of people, when they are angry, they post in a very unprofessional manner which then makes other people angry who respond, which then starts a debate of angry individuals with extremely unprofessional rage hate posts. I myself have gotten sucked into it at times and would love for it to change.

This kind of system has obvious drawbacks.

You can take a look at reddit since it’s pretty much the same thing.

Voting should be based on quality of contribution. In an ideal scenario, a comment that provides quality should be highly valued, even if you disagree with it. But more often than not, comments that you disagree with end up being ‘downvoted’ or “-1’d” because they don’t like that people don’t have opposing views.

Vol.7601:

This kind of system has obvious drawbacks.

You can take a look at reddit since it’s pretty much the same thing.

Voting should be based on quality of contribution. In an ideal scenario, a comment that provides quality should be highly valued, even if you disagree with it. But more often than not, comments that you disagree with end up being ‘downvoted’ or “-1’d” because they don’t like that people don’t have opposing views.

That’s why I figured you would have to have a certain positive reputation to be able to down vote and it would be implied that you should only down vote someone based on the way they post. Not what they post about. Such as:

“You’re a kittening idiot, warrior’s are OP and if you are too stupid to realize this then just quit”
^That would be down voted and:
“No, warrior’s healing signet is too much, they have this and that while other classes don’t have that many options”
^That wouldn’t be down voted.

BUT, I understand where you’re coming from. I just figured that someone who has gotten a +5 would be a reasonable person on the forums and not a troll that would down vote someone just because they disagreed with them but rather because they are flaming them unreasonably.