Quote Originally Posted by wilomn View Post
Remember looswheel and dandy and those wonderful folks at Fauna? They were going around repping the heck out of eachother to build up their points without actually deserving the accrued totals.

Rich put a limit on how many times you could give positive or negative reps without doing so to other members to prevent it.

The same thing here. If we were chums and wanted to up our reps all we would have to do is keep sending eachother good points for every post we made, totally invalidating the entire system.

The sneaky turds ruin it for the good guys every time.
I was never much of a fauna user, I've been a member since it began and I think I still have less then 100 posts. But yeah, I see your point. You don't want to make it easy to subvert the spirit of the rep point, on the other hand I don't see why you can't give someone who's been especially helpful an extra bump without having to hand out rep points to another twenty people first. Perhaps instead of just a single counter, would it be possible to add a day timer as well? That way you could hand out rep to a person after X number of rep points OR X number of days whichever came first? (Sorry Nate, more programming requests... )