Reputation shmeputation.

If you give a damn about what other people think of you... well, you are a bitch.

You live and then you die. Life's too short to give even one one millionth of a **** about what other people think of you. **** um all. Have some ****ing fun.

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.

I just think that it could be fun if people don't abuse it. But yeah, I can see what you guys are saying. A lot of people would take it way too seriously and it wouldn't be fun anymore.

People here would definitely abuse it.

Reputation is stupid but being able to simply "like" a post is a good feature. There are no negatives and it's a good way to let someone know you enjoyed their post without making a pointless post of your own simply saying you liked it. There are so many stupid posts on MusicBanter of people just putting the laughing smiley (:laughing:) and nothing else, it's just spam and a like system would get rid of it.

:laughing:

^ yeah, just like that

http://th154.photobucket.com/albums/...eird_dance.gif

And reporting posts needlessly isn't spam for us dear mods now, is it YD?