Will -rep ever come back?

[iceybunneh]

You are talking about the other forum here. However, even the positive reputation is abused there. Yet you don't see any complaints from people unless it's a negative. Most of the positive reputation awarded on that site reminds me of greetings cards. Half of them are things like "Your name is awesome" "I like you." etc.

It doesn't reflect the user's ability to be decent members when negative reputation is a factor either. One person gets a minus rep, the revenge game starts, and the other person gets the red flag for no practical reason anyways.

It causes problems for the users, and it escalates to the Staff and the Admin positions as well. There's no good to it.

That's true. And on other forums that use the rep system, it's abused horribly because there's no limit as to who can use it and it comes down to an "either I like you or don't like you" kind of thing with no actual legit reason for a plus or negative rep. So I can kind of see why only part of the rep system would be used here.