[Threshold]

Yeah, I have zero faith in systems like this unless they have an enormous amount of checks and balances. There also has to be an overpoweringly valuable reason for the system in the first place, to justify all the headaches.

We have an elaborate system on Threshold where you can give positive or negative reports about someone's RP. The reports people write up get randomly peer reviewed by other players (with all character names removed), and for a report to become "valid", a preponderance of people who read it have to agree in the validity of the report. And at least this system has value, since it helps reward good RP on an RP required game. In other words, it directly relates to the purpose of the game. The purpose of this forum is not to prove who is a good poster or not.

So the reputation system serves no real, significant positive purpose and just creates major opportunities for abuse, clique formation, favoritism, and petty squabbles. That is a recipe for disaster.