You wouldnt believe the competition that can arise from the desire to have the most Gems. Usually it helps raise the level of posts in both quality and quanity.
This was something that started to happen on my site, the subject of the forum is something where people ask questions and receive answers from the community and as you said there was some "virtual kudos" from having those little green gems.
However my site also has a general chat area which is where all the abusive and stupid negative reputation was coming from. For a short time I disabled negative rep on that forum however users were simply finding posts the user had made elsewhere and repping these with silly comments.
As mentioned in the end I decided to disable it, so now I am looking for an alternative. Probably something like the "Post Thankyou" mod available here.
I really wanted the "community moderation" thing to work, however while on paper it seemed like a good idea, in the real world it turned into a nightmare. A nightmare that was compounded by the fact that in order to remove a rep comment a moderator would have to have full admincp permissions which is something I would never give.
03-26-2008, 04:44 PM
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