Ratings are new to GDNet regardless of any comparison to previous systems. They are not the same as post count rankings.

I've already made it quite evident that trustworthiness is not the issue. If you would have read my reply to Extrarius, you would know that (if you understood what I wrote): "Trust is subjective. Trust depends on an individual's perception. Reality extends beyond the single mind in a manner of speaking; therefore, the trustworthiness of certain individuals is irrelevant as one person trusted by Person A may not be trusted by Person B."

You cannot globally define who can be trusted and who cannot be trusted. Trustworthiness is therefore irrelevant.

You claim that there were no instances of abuse in the past and because of that there will be no abuse in the future. That is a very flawed argument. The U.S. had never attacked another country with nuclear weaponry before Japan. You had never been a GDNet moderator before GDNet. Things change and the process of ethical corrosion continues. While history can be used to predict the future, history is not accurately representative of future events due to the future being unknown.

One of the first signs of a corrupt police system is the appearance of no signs at all.

Now please, moderators, stop trying to hijack the thread to retain your ability to abuse the ratings system.

Your suggestion has been noted. You can expect the staff to mull it over and make their decision, but not to necessarily communicate it to the community at large.

Thank you.

The 20 points you lost aren't worth the time you'd spend recovering them. It may not have been a mod, I made a 40 point difference on someone (I think he had a rating of 0), and rate people up and down on a whim.

Whadaya mean you don't post much? Your post per day rate is twice mine... Anyway, it doesn't take much to be rated down, or up. I can't think of a mod who would do that without reason, especially the mods that frequent the programming forums [good bunch a chaps].

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Like I said, about 2 hours after I rated the mod down, I was rated down, so that pretty much shows it was a revenge rating.

ROFLMAO!

I would like to see a system similar to Experts Exchange (http://www.experts-exchange.com) where the creater of the post selects the best response as the answer to their problem and (in their case) that person gets the points that the creater was offering for an answer. I don't necesarily like the point wagering system but I do like that the creater A)is the only one that can change anyones rating, B) has the ability to reward a good answer but not punish a bad answer, that is the moderators job, and C) gives a (small) incentive to answer the question and be productive.

Just my thoughs

*zips back up flame suit

Jesus Christ, why is this thread even open? What is it about your 'rating' that is so damned important to you? Do you get benefits from it? Will people not read your post if your rating is too low? Is your life ANY DIFFERENT if your rating changes? Get over yourselves.