Quote Originally Posted by Kiote View Post
Reputation systems without Negative Consequences are pointless. I agree that there needs to be protection against malicious defamation, but the solution should most certainly not be a complete removal of negative standing.

If the system is player based and your FC alienates the whole community, you should suffer the consequences.

If the system is NPC based, there should be in game negative repercussions, such as NPC that won't trade with you or Factions that will attack you on site, for negative actions.
Thats true I just feel that a system like this may be abused. Rivalries of top server shells runs deep in some cases.