Hi LQ team,

I was reading one thread recently and it seems that there are some LQ members which appears out of the blue on LQ and represents radical "truths". Have few posts/threads and appears to be not reliable (from the technical/skill perspective).

I can live with those annoying posts but maybe it would be beneficial to have a bad reputation value next the user reputation. So if someone reads the posts of such a user he/she immediately sees that the post is not relevant/reliable (from technical perspective) and can ignore it. It takes an effort to investigate the reliability of such a user manually.

Other LQ members could mark the user unreliable in posts or in the profile of the user. We can even ask for notes/reasons when the members gives bad reputation to someone (to avoid an abuse of this).

I don't know if this is a good idea. I was only thinking about how to demotivate those users to write "unprofessional/emotional" posts without consequences.

Have a nice day.

Why not report them ? If their posts are against the rules they will be punished.

Even if you do turn on the negative reputation system, people should still be allowed to turn off reputation. I don't like the rep system, neither positive nor negative, so I should be able to turn it off. However, the people who get negative rep can also do this. I also hope that once turning on negative reps, people with the system off will not be automatically be considered "undesirables". You'd also have to make sure the system is not abused, which is very difficult IMO. However, if you can think up a system by which it can all work, I'm sure people will listen.

LQ has experimented in the past with allowing people to a) leave negative reputation and b) rate posts "not helpful." Both privileges have since been revoked. And yes, this was much discussed.

Here is the post where Jeremy announced the end of the ability to downrep:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ml#post4169644

And here is the post where Jeremy announced the end of the ability to rate posts "not helpful":

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...7/#post4548872

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Not a great idea, getting rid of the reputation/popularity contest thing altogether would be a far better idea.

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How about a set of icons?
A smiling face for someone who gives good advice.
A neutral face for someone who gives mediocre advice.
A face vomiting for someone who gives bad advice.

← #5 .

It has all been discussed before.

And :
Once there was an option like "Did you find this post helpful? No "
* It was misused.


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Post #5 is supposed to be humour. Perhaps my sense of humour is aberant and I am the only one who finds the joke funny.

Sorry guys. I didn't use the search tools again Closing.