| TalonMan said: LOL!! Yeah, that was QUITE the novel!! There's a lot to take in there, and obviously since I'm not even in development or even prototype staging any of this - I'm not prepared to even take a stab at trying to address each one of your concerns. The only thing I can say with absolute confidence, is that I'm positive for each potential problem you've outlined - there is a way to resolve. You need to keep in mind - since these forums are 100% customized and hand built, we can do whatever in the world we want to do!!! While the customization of these boards is what makes enhancements and fixes so difficult at times and prone to bugs - it also gives us full flexibility to build and do whatever we want, as we're not tied to some template with strict rules and limited modification. We are free to do anything and everything...
...I'll certainly look through this in greater detail at some point - perhaps if we get serious about implementing reputation, I'll use this as a guiding document to help ensure some of the scenarios are addressed from the beginning. But just to give an idea as to how I would resolve even your first issue, these are some possible ways to address (and some of these are tools I mentioned in my post, already):
1. What's to stop someone with a vendetta against a specific user from bashing them once a day? They could bash the user, wait a day, during which they'd upvote like-minded people to reset the unique user limit. They wouldn't need new reasons to do so, they could just keep doing it, and could do so completely undetected. - I mentioned that one of the throttling devices that could be deployed, would be that a user had to rate xx number of other unique users, before they could rate somebody else again (ie. I give HylianSwordsman a +1 today - I won't be able to +1 him again, until after I've rated 15 other distinct users). - Insert a cool-off period between ratings (ie. I give HylianSwordsman a +1 - I won't be able to +1 anyone else, for at least 10 minutes). With just these two tools, somebody would need to be AWFULLY dedicated to trash (or inflate) a user's reputation. They would need to spend nearly 3hrs, trying to upvote 14 other users before they'd even have a chance to come back and rate the original user again. That takes a RIDICULOUS amount of patience on somebody's part!!! And if, at any point, the mods or the community in general suspect foul-play - it could be made into a simple click to reset a particular user's ratings that have been handed out (thereby, laying waste to all the effort they'd put in to screw with the system).
Again - I know you have other scenarios listed, I just don't have the stomach or attention span to go through them line-by-line right now (especially since a reputation system is still but a twinkle in my eye!!). The point of this response though, is just to make you understand that for every scenario you come up with, I'm POSITIVE rules could be in place to address it... ...most important, there would ALWAYS be a tool readily available, to undo whatever malice may have been committed (which is the single most important feature to keep in mind, no matter how something like this ever comes together). |
Again, sorry it was so long. I don't think I fully appreciated how long I'd made it until I saw what it looked like once it was posted, now I'm just embarrassed. I trust you guys to put a lot of thought into something like this, and being all custom made means you're only limited by creativity and dedication. Also, you had said that you'd thought of this years ago, so I guess I made the assumption that it was further along than it was. Sorry for wasting your time.
