Member Reputation [BT Rep]

[huqiming]

i'm not saying user who hides their reps are cheaters/scammers, but cheaters/scammers can hide their rep history to score more in giveaways for more cheating or trading (because reading hundreds of posts is far more time consuming than scanning through the rep point history, so few giveaway op will do it).

The setting helps cheaters/scammers far more than helping a user with a legit reason to do that, so i don't understand why it exists.

I think you're wrong some people have rep points that they got from giveaways or whatever but prefer to have them disabled so as not to be associated with trading.

I don't see how it helps scammers to disable it. People don't give out negative rep-points so it gives a pretty one sided view of their history. All they do is show if people have proved trustworthy in the past and trust me some of the people with the biggest reps have turned out to be the biggest scam artists of them all.

If anything rep-points help cheaters and scammers because they lull people having dealings with them into a false sense of security.

damn, you're right. i didn't think this through.

i think what would help is this: in the rep history not only show the points given to a user, but also show the points the user gave to others.
This way you can spot cheaters/scammers who stack invites/accounts from giveaways for future trading or more cheating.

[zedex]

I think you're wrong some people have rep points that they got from giveaways or whatever but prefer to have them disabled so as not to be associated with trading.

I don't see how it helps scammers to disable it. People don't give out negative rep-points so it gives a pretty one sided view of their history. All they do is show if people have proved trustworthy in the past and trust me some of the people with the biggest reps have turned out to be the biggest scam artists of them all.

If anything rep-points help cheaters and scammers because they lull people having dealings with them into a false sense of security.

damn, you're right. i didn't think this through.

i think what would help is this: in the rep history not only show the points given to a user, but also show the points the user gave to others.
This way you can spot cheaters/scammers who stack invites/accounts from giveaways for future trading or more cheating.

welcome to IT v 2.0

[huqiming]

welcome to IT v 2.0

meaning ...?

[kaffeine]

I don't see how it helps scammers to disable it.

Maybe a scammer could get a rep point from someone he screwed with a comment like "scammer/cheater/don't trust him/etc" and the scammer could avoid exposure by disabling rp points, at least for a short period of time.

[G-Force]

I have 29 rep points, but my bar only comes up with 25? Any ideas?

[akkk]

I have 29 rep points, but my bar only comes up with 25? Any ideas?

Untill 25 points it shows the exact numer of points (for example 5, 9 ,17 ,24). After 25 it shows rounded to 5. For example:
you have 29 - it shows 25
you have 30 - it shows 30
you have 32 - it shows 30
you have 44 - it shows 40
you have 45 - it shows 45

[v-one]

and you have 151 - shows 100+

[sear]

I don't see how it helps scammers to disable it.

Maybe a scammer could get a rep point from someone he screwed with a comment like "scammer/cheater/don't trust him/etc" and the scammer could avoid exposure by disabling rp points, at least for a short period of time.

It's possible but I don't see someone doing that...but what do I know

[akkk]

Maybe a scammer could get a rep point from someone he screwed with a comment like "scammer/cheater/don't trust him/etc" and the scammer could avoid exposure by disabling rp points, at least for a short period of time.

It's possible but I don't see someone doing that...but what do I know

I've seen it but even if the guy has a rep point with a comment "scamer" it's not shure that the other guy isn't lying. So for now when you have problems with a scamer you use the reports section

[eden297]

i think that rep points should be given only in trade and not in give away.