"Reputation" System Replacement

[denvoros]

Hey everybody, I'm an admin on a forum that has been using a reputation system for the past few years that has worked great for our needs. However, as the forums have grown, we've been receiving complaints about the system that deal with point inflation, unwarranted negative reputation, and overall abuse with the system.

What I need is a system that can replace the one that we currently have. One of the main features I'm looking for is a system of anonymous comments to provide feedback on posts. Any system that does not associate with points will be very helpful.

Now, there's always the solution of completely disabling the system altogether (as we've already done) and keep it disabled, but a majority of our team feels that a form of anonymous feedback would be a good way to go, since they can encourage better quality on our forums and that these points are causing a large amount of problems.

Thanks for all of your help!

The forum is located at http://zeldadungeon.net/forum/forum.php and is running vB 4.1.7 (soon to be 4.1.8 when we upgrade).

[Alfa1]

I can certainly relate to your problems. I had a developer code functionality to resolve the issues and to improve the usefulness of the reputation system.
The problems you describe are inevitable with the default reputation functionality, simply because moderation functions for reputation are completely absent.

Here's what I added:
- A reputation moderation queue, with advanced moderation features. (reason for rating deletion automatically sent)
- Report reputation ratings, with moderator functions in the report.
- An UI that makes rating just as easy as the likes system.
- Show reputation stars & comments under posts
- Reputation trade detector.
- Turn reputation spread off for staff
- supermods can edit approved rep
- members can retract rep within 5 minutes
- reputation on member profile

I also added reputation rules, so that everyone knows exactly what can not be in ratings.
All usergroup promotions are based or intertwined with reputation and reputation - post ratio. I also added functions in admincp relating to this.

This has completely resolved the issues we had on my big board, and has greatly increased the number of ratings per month. It has also greatly increased post quality and keeps thanks messages out of posts.

[denvoros]

Thanks for your response. I'd like to know if its possible to get my hands on these modifications, as they would really help solve a lot of our problems. If not, I can still look for alternatives.