Quote Originally Posted by gildhur View Post
Indeed. If you remove the display of red boxes because people could potentially farm negative rep against someone, you're admitting that the entire system is meaningless. Moderation was supposed to prevent that farming from taking place. But if it can happen negatively, then it can certainly happen positively (since by definition many more people can participate in that side of it), and the green boxes are just as meaningless, if not more so. Just disable the whole system at this point. You've proven that it's worthless.
It's not worthless at all, it was planned to be a way for C reps to identify problem areas and topics that were going down hill, plus I think any post that gets a ton of - rep gets automatically removed for moderation.

Of course people can and have been farming rep.

But it is supposed to be used to help C reps identify topics they should be looking at.