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It has come to my attention a member has been repping posts which are years old, or members who are no longer active, in order to use up the number of reps which must be given before they can roll around to be able to negative rep the same person again.
The only reason I believe someone would do this is so they don't have to give out positive reps to active members, while at the same time being able to give more negative reps to active members they are unhappy with.
I don't see this as fair play, especially if the member is approaching a thousand positive reps which allows them to inordinately inflict far more damage to the individual they are negging than is reasonable, especially new members.
If it is possible to turn off the ability to rep someone either positive, or negative, once a post is older than 60-90 days, I believe this would be helpful to make the forum a better place, forcing reps to be given to active posters, not something posted years ago. I believe a window of one to three months is more than fair as most posts are not responded to after a thirty day period anyway.
If this change can't be made for some reason or another, whether the software won't allow it, or admin doesn't agree, there is another way to handle this. If one of these long time members uses their high reps to destroy the reputation of a new member, or for that matter any member unjustly, I suggest a number of us group together to give positive reps back to those individuals, if they didn't really deserve so much damage, or any negative rep at all, which sometimes happens.
I will go even further and would be happy to positive rep anyone when they are negged by someone who takes more than one rep away, whether deserved or not.
The only reason I believe someone would do this is so they don't have to give out positive reps to active members, while at the same time being able to give more negative reps to active members they are unhappy with.
I don't see this as fair play, especially if the member is approaching a thousand positive reps which allows them to inordinately inflict far more damage to the individual they are negging than is reasonable, especially new members.
If it is possible to turn off the ability to rep someone either positive, or negative, once a post is older than 60-90 days, I believe this would be helpful to make the forum a better place, forcing reps to be given to active posters, not something posted years ago. I believe a window of one to three months is more than fair as most posts are not responded to after a thirty day period anyway.
If this change can't be made for some reason or another, whether the software won't allow it, or admin doesn't agree, there is another way to handle this. If one of these long time members uses their high reps to destroy the reputation of a new member, or for that matter any member unjustly, I suggest a number of us group together to give positive reps back to those individuals, if they didn't really deserve so much damage, or any negative rep at all, which sometimes happens.
I will go even further and would be happy to positive rep anyone when they are negged by someone who takes more than one rep away, whether deserved or not.