What about a tier system, something like “excellent / great / good / fair / neutral / cautious / warning / negative”? Hide the actual number from the user, so there’s no ‘mine is bigger than yours’ contest.
That might be better, but I’d still worry about people rep farming (for lack of a better term). Any time you give people a score, title, or other personal metric, you run the risk of people posting to influence that metric rather than to post for the sake of contributing content.
It’s possible the good such a system could do would outweigh the bad, but it will definitely always have elements of both.
What about a tier system, something like “excellent / great / good / fair / neutral / cautious / warning / negative”? Hide the actual number from the user, so there’s no ‘mine is bigger than yours’ contest.
That might be better, but I’d still worry about people rep farming (for lack of a better term). Any time you give people a score, title, or other personal metric, you run the risk of people posting to influence that metric rather than to post for the sake of contributing content.
It’s possible the good such a system could do would outweigh the bad, but it will definitely always have elements of both.