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It has come to the staff's attention that the amount of reputation used to "cancel" negative reputation and/or "encourage" banned users has grown to ridiculous proportions lately. The reputation system is intended to be a bit of a tool for determining the actual community reputation of a user and also a fun forum feature, but this crosses the line into blatant abuse and frivolity.
We'll be cracking down on such action and punishing all parties involved by at the minimum the reversal of such reputation as well as additional loss, and possibly worse if a user refuses to stop or otherwise repeatedly blatantly abuses the system.
There is obviously no way that it can be set in stone--wording-wise, at least--what defines abuse (and attempting to often opens a number of needless loopholes), but I think everyone has a good idea of what it means in their mind and I hope that they are not stupid enough to push it.
That will be all.
We'll be cracking down on such action and punishing all parties involved by at the minimum the reversal of such reputation as well as additional loss, and possibly worse if a user refuses to stop or otherwise repeatedly blatantly abuses the system.
There is obviously no way that it can be set in stone--wording-wise, at least--what defines abuse (and attempting to often opens a number of needless loopholes), but I think everyone has a good idea of what it means in their mind and I hope that they are not stupid enough to push it.
That will be all.