Quote Originally Posted by Fredelas View Post
I think the reputation system was a social experiment to see if it would encourage players to think twice about what they're posting by allowing peers to reward or punish them with pixels. I think the experiment was mostly a failure.
It's a very interesting tale of two communities. DDO and LOTRO added reputation at the same time. For DDO the community mostly used it as intended and they are keeping the system.
Here, not so much. It is heavily abused, misused, and a popular griefing tool (rep up your friends so you get enough rep to neg rep peope who disagree or you don't like).

Tolero and I talk often about the dramatically different outcomes and use. Especially as the results were almost perfectly opposite of what we expected.