Should we get rid of reputation up/down votes?

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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