Reputation System

[Machiavellian-Mafia]

I had this idea last night:

- The site can have a reputation system where others can add or subtract reputation points from players.
- Of course every time people change another person's reputation, they have to provide a good reason.

Thats what I have so far. I think this would work because the reputation system would encourage people to try to gain as much reputation as possible by playing their best in their games and discourage people to do stupid things.

What are your thoughts?

[Thestatusquo]

I've had experience with things like that on other boards. Either they're too punitive (on magictraders.com for instance) or they're absolutely arbitrary (www.lddebate.com)

*shrug*

[Zindaras]

I think reputation systems et cetera lead to elitism and clique-forming.

[Mgm]

I think Zindaras is right...

[Mr Stoofer]

So do I...

[EmpTyger]

What would be the advantage of a quantified reputation over the current system, in which people earn some intangible reputation based on experience, word-of-mouth, and general fame or infamy?

[spectrumvoid]

I don't like it. I had a rating system on where I used to play (IRC), and it led to all kinds of havoc and elitism.

[Mr. Flay]

It's been mentioned before, and mostly seems to be more trouble than its worth. There was talk for a time of rating moderators, or rating players to increase/decrease the number of games they could be in, but it's probably asking for trouble. Despite the site's theme and purpose, we're a pretty friendly group OOC, and I'd hate to see that get damaged...

[mikeburnfire]

There was a warning system at my last message board (now defunct) that had a warning system. It could be used here for punishing poor sportsmanship (such as ousting your cultmates just because you hate cults) or frequent unexplained absences.

Complicated repuation systems described are not as useful. I already know who's worth playing with and who brings a game down.

[Mr. Flay]

How did the warning system work, Mike? Was it like a mod-enforced signature line?

[mikeburnfire]

There were four little green boxes below each person's name. If somebody spammed uncontrollably or whatever, then we'd add to his Warning level, which would make one of the boxes red (I was a mod for a while there). Once somebody reached four red boxes they were banned. I don't know if it works, because nobody ever had more than one red box.

I think it might be useful if somebody is a poor sport, or ruins a game like slaking did, or whatever his name was.

[Mr. Flay]

Oh. I think our problems are at the same time simpler (i.e. they happen less often) and more dangerous (high chance of ruining a multi-month game), and the game of mafia almost inherently sets itself up for players taking revenge on other players because they don't like their playstyle, they got them killed last game, etc.

So maybe players could only upgrade other players, as a reward, and list mods could give out negatives to players based on

moderator

input (to avoid a mod in one forum just downgrading someone globally because of play in a second game).

Or maybe the whole thing is still more trouble than it's worth. We seem to be scaling upward pretty well these days, with the changes to Queue limits...

[Zindaras]

I think that most people know full well who to avoid and who to trust. I also think that reputation and such could influence newbies way too much.

[Twito]

Going with Zindie here

[Fritzler]

rep would suck

i know scumchatters would abuse it to give each other higher rep

it just wouldn't be that cool

except for us

cuz it'd show us as being cool

[Adele]

Strikes might be good, showing marks by a person's av when a mod submits a complaint that they had to be replaced in a game because they disappeared, not PMing the mod about it, or crimes above that, at a list mod's discretion, and strikes disappearing after like 3 months. A mark of shame (maximum of three showing).

Easy for a never-replaced spamtacular for me to say tho

[bigAl]

I think that for a site this size, it's not really necessary. Spend a couple months here and you get to know what kind of players most people are.