A few years back, and a few years before that, PC had a reputation system, which basically allowed you to comment on someone else's post, and with your assigned rep power, it would push the amount of reputation higher, or lower, based upon whether you were positively repping them, or negatively repping them. A while after it came back, reputation was abused once more, like in the past and was done away with. Since then, a post comments system had been implemented, where you could leave comments on someone's post, but without a number value assigned. The flaw with that though, is that without the number - nobody really cares to give out post comments anymore. This could be seen as a positive thing, or negative thing, depending on your views of post comments & reputation as a whole.
I'm sure it's been over a year since the reputation system became the post comments system, so I'm wondering, how would you feel if the reputation system returned, or the post comment system was enhanced, to only allow positive reputation?
There's a catch though, if so, there would be no ranking system on the members list, and only you personally would know the number, but having a numbers assigned may make people more willing to give out post comments for self value, or something along those lines. There would also be no bars next to your post, so as a whole, nobody would really know how much reputation you have. So really, there would be minimal chance of this being abused, and would highlight an underused system. Basically, how do you feel about this?
I believe that this would work successfully, to be honest. I don't necessarily think people have matured as much to be able to bring back negative reputation, but without a ranking system, you'd still be able to know your own reputation amount and it would encourage people to put more effort into posts (some who usually wouldn't) in the hopes that someone would give reputation to their post. And being someone who likes post comments - recieving and giving them, I think reptuation returning in the form of positive rep would be nice, but still as a whole, unlikely, sadly. Though it's still interesting to hear your thoughts on it. :)