Re: Rep - Public or not?
Honestly, I think rep systems like this are just ripe for abuse and people using it as a way to harass people.
Furthermore, the people most likely to game the system are the biggest trolls. They are the only types of people with the time and energy to waste effort making numerous accounts, rallying their "buddies", etc. to trash someone's rep or boost their own rep.
It is similar to post counts. I think showing them is usually a bad thing. It gives people something worthless to try and game, and can often end up being harmful. So it adds nothing, but risks creating a lot of problems.
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