Re: Rep - Public or not?
Our reputations as members of the MUD community hinge on far more than forum participation. From what I've seen elsewhere, repping systems tend to bring out the worst in a certain strata of otherwise rational individuals.
Flack and fallout over a heated post can dwindle over time, under normal conditions. Hang a rep system there, and the impact can linger for months. Make the names of those repping a person visible, and the impact can linger far longer.
In the face of the challenges the MUD community faces as a whole, struggling to maintain and grow in the face of a myriad pressures and diverse competitors, I sense that we need to take steps to discourage fragmentation and internal conflicts, not steps that add to them.
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