(09-25-2020, 10:14 PM)KC9UDX Wrote: It's not a widespread problem.  We've actually had a number of new members giving negative feedback who didn't realise that it wasn't the normal way to do things here, and all but one (as far as I can tell) retracted the negative reputation points they had given.

(09-25-2020, 04:45 PM)KC9UDX Wrote: I vote option 3: we've seen that it's not the existence of downvotes that's the problem, it's the abuse of them.  Deal with the abuse, not the "reputation"

(09-25-2020, 10:31 PM)Der Geist der Maschine Wrote: Somewhere in the infinity of the the MyBB code, there must a "-1" that needs to get replaced with a "-0" so that giving a negative rating does not decrease the reputation count. How difficult can that be?

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From Upload/reputation.php

Code:

// The user is trying to give a negative reputation, but negative reps have been disabled.
        if($mybb->get_input('reputation', MyBB::INPUT_INT) < 0 && $mybb->settings['negrep'] != 1)
        {
                $message = $lang->add_negative_disabled;
        if($mybb->input['nomodal'])
                {
                eval("\$error = \"".$templates->get("reputation_add_error_nomodal", 1, 0)."\";");
                }
                else
                {
                        eval("\$error = \"".$templates->get("reputation_add_error", 1, 0)."\";");
                }
                echo $error;
                exit;
        }

Are you sure that one can not disable giving negative reputations?


This 8 year old thread for an older mybb version https://community.mybb.com/thread-124436.html suggests

ACP>Configuration>settings>Reputation>Allow Negative Reputation>check no

(09-25-2020, 03:24 PM)hmuller Wrote:

(09-25-2020, 12:28 PM)Luke Wrote: As per discussion in another thread, I'd like the community's input on whether we should remove users ability to up/down "reputation".
It appears that this system has been abused recently.

When I look at your "480" reputation, I see 480 "thank you"s. I think that if the system has been abused, then the abuser should lose the privilege or ability to modify reputation.

That's my minor opinion =)

(09-26-2020, 06:09 AM)LinAdmin2 Wrote:

(09-25-2020, 04:45 PM)KC9UDX Wrote: I vote option 3: we've seen that it's not the existence of downvotes that's the problem, it's the abuse of them.  Deal with the abuse, not the "reputation"

It might be difficult and time consuming to find out who started abuse.
Unless you have kind of a court this might rise to a different kind of abuse by mods.