An interesting debate.
1. in GT's original post she said
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Likewise, there are those who contribute by their actual physical attendance and support of forum events and that contribution is not recognised under the current system either.
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I'm not sure how this managed to be hijacked into a comment about event attendance being more valuable or worthy of recognition than anything else so those who misquoted the original comment or quoted Gecko GT's should have had the courtesy to read the original comment rather than comment on a misquote.
2. The only change made this morning (that started the bitching) was to cap the rep a member could give to the same level as admins instead of the ridiculous situation whereby some could issue significantly more simply because the admins are capped - thus the change was about introducing equality. Seems that even this minor change was deemed unacceptable by some.
Effective immediately, the user reputation system is canned for the following reasons:
1. While the system has been valuable for some it has also been open to some fairly widespread abuse. If I were to share some of the comments that have gone along with rep then I feel sure that there would be very few fans of the system left.
2. The rep system calculates a users rep power every time a thread is viewed - in other words it is not a stored value. This means that in an average day there are 16,250,000 calculations performed simply to display reputation power and frankly this is a significant load on a server that is currently struggling to keep up.
The forum is a community and like all communities there are different motivations for involvement by each member. None the less there are those who go out of their way to be helpful to others or who contribute in other ways to the community spirit and thus we will review what other methods are available for recognition of those who contribute their time, skills and experience to the forum.
Russ