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Originally posted by RatedG²
No I can definitely see it being good though. It's like every day I see magnificent posts that really deserves to be rewarded. Having a rep system shows which users are more likely to add good things to your thread and which are trolls
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I think it's great for things like StackOverflow, which I use religiously, where the goal is to find one post that answers the OP the best.
But I feel that instead of actually replying with something contextually significant, people will just
start upvoting to co-sign instead of quoting the poster in a reply.
This will have a negative effect on things like Search Engine Optimization and could also effect post counts per user. However, It can effect average post quality positively, because users will begin to leave less pointless posts like "This." and "YASS" and some other smiley that contributes very little contextually.
But I understand your point.