Over the last few weeks it's come to my attention that some users on USMB are addicted to positive reputation points, and will do whatever's necessary to accue them. I suspect some may even be prepared to kill to get them. They certainly aren't above tacitly begging for them.
But what's to be done to combat this affliction?
I propose a panel being formed to judge cases of rep addiction that have come to the attention of a user's peers. They would either have their account disabled or undergo cold turkey in an attempt at weening them off their addiction.
The addiction to pos rep is getting beyond a joke, and needs to be remedied as soon as possible.
I've given people computer help and answered people's questions and it doesn't deserve rep as I haven't been repped when I thought it should because I donated my time to make other people's lives a little bit better.
If you hold to a minority opinion, the minority won't get repped. Some minority positions are under appreciated and under repped.
I can't understand how someone could get upset over imaginary points. I've positively repped people that don't like me and they were like "huh?" and I told them it doesn't matter because they are imaginary points. It is not like you can trade them in for green stamps outside of USMB. I can't redeem them for gas.
Rep is boring. Stop trying to fix a broken system. If you repped people enough, you would find it time consuming and boring. The system will fix itself because people will get bored with it and stop.
What you should advocate is for USMB to improve the quality of life and fix the troll and spammer problem because that would keep people here and give the board value.