[«SmG» Wires]

I should've done this a long time ago as I coded this months ago, and it's quite common on other popular forums, but I think now is the perfect time to do something like this. I'm announcing this now because I don't want users going to rep staff and then seeing an error page and creating a bundle of help threads asking what's going on.

By default, staff now have their Reputation "Locked". By this, it means:

• If enabled, their reputation cannot be seen nor edited. Not even by themselves.
  
• They can no longer give out reputation (that's only fair IMO)
  

It essentially locks their reputation. 

Why have I done this?

Unfortunately, being a staff member on such a big platform like this means staff are going to be flamed and highlighted for decisions they make. This usually comes in the form of negative/neutral reputation slating them for their decisions as a staff member. It's unfair and not right that they sometimes get flamed for purely doing their job, which is the reason why I've locked their reputation. They have the option to unlock their reputation but this is purely based on their discretion.

[Rundas]

Why not remove negative rep at this rate if it's such an issue? It's hardly used anyway. Except for the reasons you've stated.

[«SmG» Wires]

Why not remove negative rep at this rate if it's such an issue? It's hardly used anyway. Except for the reasons you've stated.

Because this is a staff-only problem. Disabling the whole system just because staff get negative repped for doing their job is overkill IMO. The reputation system is still (even if not as much) utilised by members.

[Linamium]

Seems like a pretty nice idea

[master14126]

So pretty much staff cant give members rep anymore. Sounds fair to me tbh

[«SmG» Wires]

So pretty much staff cant give members rep anymore. Sounds fair to me tbh

If they enable Reputation Lock then no, they can't give rep nor receive.

[SmG Nukem]

If I want to neg rep a staff member because they did something dumb or pos rep them because they did something good then I should be able to, otherwise there is no point to having the rep system at all for anyone.

Locking rep for some members of SmG is not the way to go, it should be all or none.

PS I don't care what other sites do, we are SmG we do things our way.

[SmG Kylie]

I feel like a potentially better option could be to make it so staff are able to receive positive rep like usual which will appear instantly on their page BUT if a negative  or neutral rep is given, it will not appear instantly and will instead be forwarded to @«SmG» Cloud Himself for further review. If the rep is valid it will then be added to that staff members profile.
(sorry for suggesting a lil more work for you  )

This way you're not removing a positive thing from the forums & you're also making issues known to the man himself, not just masking a potential problem.

Not sure how easy this would be to put into place but it'd be a way to keep positivity and also keep heat off of staff members who are purely just making decisions that are necessary.

Everyone loves to see/give positive rep where it's due.

[Draxx]

What if some person gets targeted and neg repped to no end? Just wondering ik you can remove it but still

[«SmG» Cells]

I feel like a potentially better option could be to make it so staff are able to receive positive rep like usual which will appear instantly on their page BUT if a negative  or neutral rep is given, it will not appear instantly and will instead be forwarded to @«SmG» Cloud Himself for further review. If the rep is valid it will then be added to that staff members profile.
(sorry for suggesting a lil more work for you  )

This way you're not removing a positive thing from the forums & you're also making issues known to the man himself, not just masking a potential problem.

Not sure how easy this would be to put into place but it'd be a way to keep positivity and also keep heat off of staff members who are purely just making decisions that are necessary.

Everyone loves to see/give positive rep where it's due.

Now this sounds even better but I don't know if that's possible lol