[Here lies Eggroll's Eggrolls]

For starters, we already use a reputation plugin called XEM Fast Reputation that adds the plus and minus rep buttons to all forum posts, by default MyBB makes you manually + or - rep a post or user by typing in a reason, so if we wanted to "slow down" giving rep, we can just disable our plugin and make users type a reason for giving rep points.

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This seems like a good idea but I can just see people putting shitpost reasons and copy and pasting useless stuff in the comment section. Honestly, I think the best way to handle forum rep would be to limit the amount of reputation users can give daily. I think a daily limit of the amount of rep allowed to take away or give should be limited. Of course that kinda sucks but I think that’s a little better than having the reputation system disabled entirely. Plus, we don’t need to be giving so much rep around anyways. I only come on here a few times to give rep or take away rep from people that really deserve it. Rep means nothing if everyone can give an infinite amount of rep to easily manipulate rep, so I believe that once it becomes limited it will become more valuable and hopefully people will start using their ability to -1 or +1 people more carefully. 

Sorry if this seems all over the place, I’m tired and typing this in my phone xD