Reputation System

[Iifebit (Lifebit)]

There isn’t really a point to implementing this. There are already a million and one different ways to prevent scamming such as contracts, secured payment, etc. If you get scammed and you have many resources to help you not get scammed, then it is entirely your fault for making those decisions. Going through the hassle of making a entire system for this is pointless since everyone should at least know about or if they haven’t, should learn about techniques on how not to get scammed.

[souppression (soup)]

Alongside everything that’s already been said, a reputation system sounds pretty useless to me. You can’t call people out or attack them, meaning this rule would be broken half the time should a ‘bad rep flagger’ be implemented. If anyone has any good rep to showcase, they can do so in their portfolio.

@sjr04

Why should DevEngagementTeam do something that is out of their scope

This is an extremely valid point; there’s no point placing additional workload on DET when it’s unnecessary and unessential to the functioning of the wider forum.

[M_caw (Macaw)]

…What stops users from “down-voting” a person who simply had a different point of view on the best modeling program or proved their understanding of the forum’s rules as wrong? A rating system or a way to rank people based on “how nice they are” sounds a lot like what China’s doing to its citizens- Giving essentially everyone a mandatory score that is public, so people know who to stop being friends with, who to deny access to a store, to public transport, for entering a restaurant. Absolutely no support from me. Everything is opinionated.

@wevetments

Why put a label on someone for lifetime?

@sjr04

and what if someone has a “low” reputation, it would be basically naming and shaming these users. Not cool

Basically this. Imagine if you had a floating number above your head throughout your life that you couldn’t get rid of. Jesus Christ, a statistic does not define you. A number cannot determine who you are. Get this ideology out of here.

Your wealth? Doesn’t define you.
Your grades from school? Doesn’t define you.
Your weight? Doesn’t define you.

You are not simply a number.

Basically:

No. I do not want this forum to have a social credit system.

[Operatik]

Defamation is the concept that we are not promoting on the platform, thus it is wrong to push an entire community against someone in discrimination. Again, we’re looking at another similar concept that revolves around attempting to discriminate someone and that is not our goal. The way is forward.

The similar topic:

Add a place to put our pronouns and enforce use of proper pronouns

Objectively, pronouns should not be placed in front of development, because that is an issue and a controversy. The main goal of the forum is not to identify but supporting developers regardless of bias or any discrimination. Try to indiscriminate users instead and use any generic term that is “neutral”.