Can you post links?

Why did GOG not remove the "rep system"?

It's constantly being abused by stalkers who target individual GOG users, and then use bots automatically to "downvote" any & every post that the targeted individuals ever make, 100% regardless of what the post actually says.

That downvoting system is at least as toxic, and probably much more so, than the system that the OP of this thread is about. So it makes no sense for GOG to leave that toxic system intact.

And I have no idea what the "post review system" is referring to, but if it's referring to downvoting posts, then yes, it 100% needs to be removed. And if it's not referring to downvoting posts, then downvoting posts still needs to be removed immediately anyway.

In your case, I suspect the downvotes were legit. It’s also somewhat ironic that you bring this up, seeing as you have previously mocked other users on this forum for pointing out that their posts were automatically downvoted.

You sure about that? As far as I can tell, the downvoting abuse and rep system is still there, although they seemed to have made the "rep counter" invisible at the moment.

But all the abusive effects of the rep system still seem to be in place, like targeted individuals still having all their of posts automatically be "low rated," and I bet the targeted individuals also won't be able to post links once they've been abused by stalking downvotes for long enough, and I bet their posts also still become censored to certain readers after they've been "low rated," etc. etc.

So, contrary to what you are implying, GOG making the rep counter invisible isn't actually doing jack all to stop the downvoting abuse by stalkers.

GOG needs fully to erase the entire system, and all aspects of it, like the ones I just mentioned, as opposed to GOG merely taking a useless action of making the rep counter invisible, whilst still leaving all of its toxic effects 100% intact (which seems to be what is currently happening).

Probably for the best.

Now, the removal of the low rated/high rated will be a nice final blow to the downvote bot farms. Or even better, remove only the minus/low rated and keep the high rated only.

Or, as an experiment, swap the positions/IDs of the +/- buttons and see how long the bots will be confused before the owner updates it and then remove it :P. Wasted effort is the best detriment.

Mods, this is the reason I constantly question your lack of moderation on these forums. I am being personally attacked here despite making a factual statement about downvoting bots. Any other forums, Longcat would've been facing at least a week ban for this offense. However, I know he won't, because you don't enforce your own forum rules!

I think, reputation system could have been useful, if:

1. It was not anonymous
2. We could enter meaningful reason, why we upvote or downvote particular post, topic, or user account itself
3. There were limits, how often one user can affect another person's reputation
4. Measures were taken to prevent bots from automatically casting votes

But if GOG web-developers do not have enough resources to significantly improve the system, it better be turned off.

I'm getting attacked here as well mods. Anyways, why are you still here, ARD when you constantly attack GoG with every single one of your posts? Oh riiiiight.

To Paladin181, those downvote bots don't exist.

This isn't Resetera.
Grow a backbone.

Don't know about Krogan32, but evidently I can.

(The URL I posted is a good one for testing. The link is 100% safe, and will remain so given that internet standards require that the example.com domain be reserved for example usage (like in documentation), even if it's not the most interesting site out there.)

How are you being ‘personally attacked’ by pointing out that you have mocked other users (including me) on this forum for the very thing you are now complaining about?

They finally got around to commenting 1 line of code out. Maybe 2.

Html injection of code was a major cause of security issues and probably one reason MySpace fell.

BBCode allows very controlled measures of converting to html within parameters. Otherwise you have to pretty much do a forced conversion of <> to &lt;&gt; anyways. also allow gif's. This will allow transparency as well as animations. Though type size and whatnot would need some suggestions. Probably under 100k would be the standard.

Agreed. Either as a multiple week option of how far to look back, or also giving the option to nuke those notifications so you aren't bothered with the purple dot of doom.

But then the same 50 id's on every single downvoted post would have easily identified bots and been dealt with in some fashion... or having user scripts that reverted the downvotes for known/identified bots.

Though having a weight on vote's value/effect based on how much money you've paid (to a max value to equal 1, of say oh $100) would have removed bots effectiveness unless there was say a million of them.

Wait, what? I've always been against the bots. I don't even understand how you got to my name in that post! I only wanted to know if your were now eligible to post links since you were the one user in this thread to that point that I knew had a negative number rep.

EDIT: And dtgreene answered for me, at least in her own experience

Thread successfully derailed. Well done chaps!