Cyraxpt: Uhm, i think that will be something like game library, wishlist (already available), amount of time played and reviews.
BKGaming: It would probably include that too, but also integrate with the site. Like the Steam profiles. No reason it can't also include forum post, ect.
yyahoo: LOL. You're persistent. I'll give you that...
BKGaming: It's not worth wasting time with it man, him bringing up George Orwell's 1984 says all you need to know right there. Raising the minimal rep to vote is a practical solution and it can be combined with other practical solutions to better enforce it like blocking voting to only those who have posted in the thread, ect. Everything else is just fluff to find fault that could happen but it's not right now.
See and this is what im talking about. Bullying. You don't like that I have a differing opinion, so you attack it, attack me, gain allies that think like you and insult me :)
IAmSinistar: As someone who both is and has been a moderator on other sites, I can tell you accountability is what works, ideally coupled with a minimum threshold approach. If people are held to account for their up/down votes, it increases civility among regular users, and outs trolls (be they actuals or alts). Adding a minimum threshold, such as the suggestions here of needing a certain rep in order to rep others, is also a low-cost and effective gateway. It is highly unlikely to lead to the "insular elites" that some people fear, as the GOG community is not monolithic enough for that to really take hold. Nor do I think most long-term members here have an agenda that way.
These two changes would fix 90%+ of the current problem, and at no administrative cost to GOG. I know the system already tracks votes, because it prevents multiple upvotes from one user to another from counting in the same day. And the threshold code is in place because it handles the link-posting permissions. So the code changes needed are minimal.
I would add that one further feature needed is a "Hide Post" button, because some folks use the downvote button for that purpose. It would be ideal to separate those so that folks don't need to hide posts by derepping them.
Im also a moderator on a few forums as well, and I've helped bring in the rep system you were talking about. It created elitism, oligarchy and eventually people got so fed up with the community regulars controlling all aspects that they left and the forum was left with 4 people, talking in circles to themselves. It was funny, but very sad. I don't want to see Gog become that.