Southperry Reputation System

You know what would work out way better? A feedback tab in your profile. It would be similar to the Wall tab, but instead it you would have an option to leave either positive or negative feedback and would give an explanation for the feedback you were leaving. You would be able to choose whether or not you post anonymously and carelessly given feedback without an explanation could be reported and reversed. Feedback would not lead to any kind of rating or statistic in your profile; only an average of what feedback was positive or negative. This way you can get REAL feedback and REAL statistics and not this kiddie facebook RATE ME!!!! garbage.

All that would do is inundate the mods with mountains of "appeals" over idiotic little kiddie crap he-said she-said 'this isn't true' garbage. That's what your visitor messages are for. This is anonymous unless you brag about your votes, uses a controlled yet flexible set of questions to keep all comparisons as equal as possible and most importantly doesn't try to lump the entire sum of your personality and reputation into a single meaningless number.

That's what I thought this was when I read it at first. I was expecting a rep system, like fame.

This is just asking for drama.

As I see it, there already is drama. :/

This is the internet, everything is drama because there's always a drama whore waiting in the wings to explain why any form of change is the apocalypse and if nothing changes there's another one on the opposite side screaming about how stagnation will doom humanity.

Fame and similar point systems are meaningless crap. Everyone knows it. Points tell you absolutely nothing about a person, do not reflect on their actual reputation in any way and give you zero insight into what a person is known for. This system is the best compromise towards resolving those gaps and making it meaningful, consistent and, for some people, fun. If we were a transaction system rather than an open ended discussion a point system would actually be relevant, but last I looked we're not eBay or Basil.

I agree with Fiel on reductio ad absurdum now. All you are doing is belittling people's concerns and demonizing them by calling their concerns peaching and moaning.

They are quite little concerns, well deserving of mockery.

Also, what good will statistical smoothing do for the site? how important is it?

Because the blips certain people are freaking out about won't matter if the majority of voter vote accurately.

And the consequence is that this system create create prejudice, allow for people to defame others while hiding behind their screen, etc. I've already quoted a threat from a member of this forum, were he threatened to abuse a system like this. Is statistical smoothing worth this?

There are no consequences. Each person gets one vote. That's not going to tip the scales, now is it? This system doesn't create prejudice, at best it exposes already present ones.

I know most of us will forget about it eventually, but I'm mostly just infuriated with the way Eosian is trying to attack anyone that doesnt agree with him. If he presented his arguement in a logical manner, I probably wouldnt mind at all, but the fact that his demagogue like approach is what keeps dragging me here.

You're welcome to that. It's an opinion. Go register it on my reputation panel where it belongs.
The problem is, so are all the so called "arguments" you expect me to rebuff in a logical manner. You can't argue opinions and feelings. "I feel insecure about this!" "I feel OK with it so you're wrong!" See? Just doesn't work. Thankfully I don't need an argument. The feature exists whether you're comfortable or not. Come back in six months with actual facts regarding how it's causing the downfall of the site and will usher in a new age of darkness and despair and we'll talk.

If you happen to stumble upon an actual argument against this system that involves actual facts and meaningful logic by all means, present away.