[Logician]

Originally Posted by tenbucks

Enable it but only for moderators and perhaps major hack releasers. Leave negative reputations in. Hopefully this will encourage mods to be a little more helpfull and cut down on poor replies. From what I have seen at vb.com most questions, no matter how silly they may seem to be, tend to be answered by some staff members with great detail and without a hint of negativity.

I see your point but please note this: vb.com staff is Jelsoft employees and it is their job to answer all questions there and give support. On the other hand vb.org staff (all of them) are volunteers so it is not possible to expect them to give as much support as vb.com staff.

Same applies to major hack releasers. Say, I'm a major hack releaser. I've released a lot of hacks some of which are major projects. I'm sharing my hacks in this site without commercial intentions although it requires a lot of time commitment on my end (translate my hacks to English, write install instructions, fix bugs, give support etc.). I do it for the sake of sharing with the community. Do you think I deserve to get a "bad karma" when someone asked a question about one of my hacks and I couldnt find time to answer it?

As a matter of fact this is the sole reason I have reservations about enabling the reputations. We appreciate hack relasers, we need them and we are grateful to them. I really don't want them to be discouraged by bad karma which they don't deserve even if they are not responsive or give support.