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Hi Kevin when I joined up,(many years ago now) they did have those rankings, glad to hear they've realised they weren't a good idea.

The Kitmaker Network (of which Historicus Forma is the figure site) has a military ranking system, but it's related purely to the number of posts you've made rather than some form of "reputation", and you can opt out of it altogether if you want and not show any rank at all.

You get the very occasional sad-lad (mostly youngsters) who appears to "post for rank" but I've never noticed any sort of overt elitism over there that's based on it. It's always struck me as more of a "fun" feature and no big deal really.

I don't see any need for such a system here though, and I also regard the proposed (and now apparently dropped?) "reputation" feature as superfluous and just an unnecessary double-up of the existing "likes" feature. As I said above, no need to fix something that's not broken.

- Steve

 

[Mike S.]

I don't see any need for such a system here though, and I also regard the proposed (and now apparently dropped?) "reputation" feature as superfluous and just an unnecessary double-up of the existing "likes" feature. As I said above, no need to fix something that's not broken.

- Steve

Spot on. My experience as an Administrator on several Big Boards has shown me that this feature has very little if any benefits, and MANY potential headaches.