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Old 04-28-2014, 05:20 PM   #3 (permalink)
Burning Down
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Originally Posted by GuitarBizarre View Post
I've been on forums with rep systems and they just don't work.

They're a nice idea but they're completely incompatible with the way people in general work on the internet.

For a wider scale application of why this doesn't work, just hang out on ANY subreddit for a week or so and keep an eye on who gets upvoted the most consistently. It's always just whoever posts the most and has the least personality of their own - whoever manages to echo the hivemind consistently.

Why would you want to reward people like that?
It's a popularity contest for people like that.
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