There should be some sort of protection though, considering one person could lower the rep of somebody they hate. So figuring out a way around that would be necessary if the players can alter somebody elses rep

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Make it so you can't rep a player more than once. The only other rep you'll have is your side account, since multi account is banned. Great idea.

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I agree, but like AppleCiderp said, find a way to protect those with low rep so they don’t get hate.

And also, how would people be stopped from giving people low reps falsely? Hopefully no one here would, but it is possible.

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We can make it so IN ORDER to rep, you have to complete a trade. That can stop people from randomly just going around giving other people bad reputations.

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I love this idea honestly. One thing I'd like to add is that there would be 3 buttons: +1 Rep, Neutralise Rep, -1 Rep. By neutralising your rep rating on a player, it would just delete any previous rating you had given them; so your rating isn't permanent.
We all know that sometimes people dislike someone in the beginning, and end up liking them later on - or vice versa so I think this would be a nice little add to your idea ^^

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Gifting from wishlist could also give good rep, I love this idea. I do worry a little about people abusing it just because they can though but maybe there's a way to not allow that?
Like you can't give reputation to someone, negative or positive, unless you have interacted with them recently (maybe within past 24hrs like trade or gifted or something)

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@Discontinued Amazing idea! I'll add that in!

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I agree with Appleciderp but I think there should be like a group of moderators that check why you repped so you click Rep+1 or -1 and theres a box saying why? so you give the reason and moderators check it and if its a good enough reason then the rep goes through

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Perhaps it could be like reporting someone for misconduct? You'd have to give a reason for lowering their reputation, like a situation in which they scammed you, and a moderator would step in and examine the claim. They would talk to both sides if it seemed sketchy and if you false claim too many times your reputation should go down as a punishment.

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yeah that would be great SOMEONE TELL A MODERATOR ABOUT THIS IDEA

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That's a neat idea Moonie but Idk how the mods would like having more work?

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Maybe if your rep was below a certain number you get frozen? But you can petition after a time period

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Or perhaps the only real way to give/get rep is as a direct response to a transaction plus it can only occur once per person?

Say I take 200 attempts to stud a lioness; when the 'stud request accepted' message finally arrives in the other player's inbox, they could have an option to give me +1 Rep. However, if I'd stud five more of their lionesses, that option would not appear because they've already given this account rep.

It'd also hopefully reduce the likelihood of grinding for reputation; you can only get rep as a response to an action/transaction, so threads begging for rep could hopefully be less likely [unless people say 'I'll give you an item if you give me rep!', but that'd pop up even without transaction-stuff, and if they give a crummy item the other party could simply remove the rep point they'd given, haha].

This would hopefully still permit people to be acknowledged for being honest players even outside of trades/chat [if you do a Reverse breeding, say, you'd transfer the cubs to their new owner; if buying artwork with payment you'd be transferring items. Only hiccup would be the CCS creators/writers/artists who don't give tangible goods, buuut-].

As for 'oh damn, this person completed my art/writing/CCS/etc commission super nicely and I'd like to give them rep', perhaps another option could exist to give rep directly, only you have to include a reason [say, 'this person made me some lovely artwork!!' and a link to the work], in which case someone could approve that this is good rep. Probably a lot of work on staff, though, which makes me hesitant; hopefully there'd be a better happy medium between avoiding begging/grinding for rep and still rewarding people for their goodness.

EDIT: Being frozen for low rep is not a good idea, not at all; just have mods look into people with low rep and keep an eye on them so they *could* get in trouble if they do too many misdeeds. But if a certain low rep automatically equals freezing/penalties other than the community being weary of the person, I could see people getting frozen just for being annoying as opposed to really being bad people.

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Maybe 1 rep per interaction? So every trade you get the option to increase or lower rep without changing your previous mind. Because you can have 1 crappy studding, but overall the experience with them is great...

Maybe if a major situation like a modbox happens, they can lower rep by 5 or smth. So if the scam the crap outta somebody it has a more major effect on their rep.

Also people who frequently post links to trades in chat could get a 1 point decrease, like not on a first time thing, but I know sometimes some people "accidently" post into main when it's fairly obvious that they meant it

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Why not have the reputation go up after every successful private trade? I think it’s a much safer business, especially since a majority of scams happen via the forums. People who actually mean to trade the items will set up such trades to prevent others from offering on them after all. You can’t exactly scam via trades put out for everyone.

Like @DiscontinuedSide said, the concerns with a single up or down reputation would be the fact they couldn’t edit it. For instance, someone buying out a trade which was to be GB instead of SB. Then people would get upset and rate the person bad, only to end up with their item back because some people are nice like that. They couldn’t fix their mistake after such a one and done deal. It should be able to be edited. You can change the reputation given, but it would still count as one.

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