Forum Rating/Reputation System

[Deer Thistle]

People can feel free to express their opinions as they want, that's the beauty of the forum, no one should be denied that. But no one should be penalized for someone else's opinion forever and no one should have the power to do this either. I've never, ever been on a forum that enables members to have this function without limitation. Why? Potential abuse, no matter how little.

Negative ratings shouldn't be branded on a person's forum reputation from 2011 and on, that's ridiculous. I've changed a lot since 2011, so have others, I would be pretty upset if I had to reflect on my negative feedback from 2011 when we're in 2014, and there are people with negative feedback sitting on their reputations from 2011-2012, they may be distant from your circle of friends but they do exist. Not only that, but there's bound to be misinterpretation that leads to a negative rating (Ugh I sound like such a broken record, LOL), why should anyone be penalized for that by another forum member? And again, this is forever. Unless you plead to the other member to remove it or bring it up with KittyCatS devs, it'll be there. If there was an expiration on the negative ratings counting like eBay I believe has nowadays, that would be fine too. At least the person will know that it'd go away eventually.

KittyCatS has been around since 2011. If someone was fairly expressing their opinion at the time and rated accordingly "they deserved their negative rating!", the person with the negative rating has a right to move on from it and not have a testimony about a post from years ago on their feedback. There are members in the past who no longer post on this forum (I wonder why :\ ) who have negative ratings, it's not just the one affected individual who posted in this forum topic representing this whole issue.

As stated before, there's obviously a giant gap between those positive ratings versus negatives, I've never denied that. Please tell me what harm would it do to cut out the abusiveness of the feature? We've had a member come here and demonstrate the feature being abused on his own forum name, beyond those with merely negative ratings. Whether by merging two negative comments together as I suggested earlier, removing the negative feedback aspect only (Honestly don't think any forum member should have the power to blemish a person's reputation forever), or remove the whole system altogether, I would love for something to be done. It just doesn't seem right that no matter how little 'evidence' there may be, that it can happen and has happened.

And no, this doesn't affect me at all as you can see. But I still feel for my forum member brethren who don't deserve to have this happen with their possibly unpopular tones, opinions, or overall misunderstandings.

Leaving this in the trusty paws and claws of KittyCatS to decide on at this point! I can see how this issue and my stance could be easily perceived as 'premature' or such a minor issue that doesn't affect many, including myself, and you're right to an extent. But the bottom line is that it still can happen, and has. And ideally, the KittyCatS forum should strive to be a place without neither loopholes for abuse nor a function where members can permanently post a negative testimony in red, followed by a number drop from another's reputation count for years to come.