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Spoiler1. What should the forums be for?
The obvious answer from a staffing standpoint is essentially anything directly server-related, and leave anything community-oriented to the discord, but I will always entirely disagree with this notion. Discord is good for more in the moment conversations. If you miss a conversation in the discord, you probably won't even know it happened. That's how it's designed to be, fluid ongoing conversations, with certain specific places being infinitely static. The forums are a great place to have an ongoing conversation about a very specific topic. Relegating the forums to be specifically for specific server issues means you're not utilizing a large part of its allure anymore. That's why people come here to complain about stuff, or make posts about people being retards, because here it will stay at the forefront,  anyone can look up a thread and see all the relevant comments about it in one place instead of having to sift through them. So saying that all of the communal use of the forums can go to the discord is just wrong.

I wanted to point this out when fish said something similar but I didn't really know how to word it... the discord is actually older than this whole website. Why do we all the sudden just want to shove it in the back and let it be the site where we dump ban reports? Nothing has warranted that other than a sudden moderation issue on the forums (cough, fix the report button)

As someone with a theoretically elevated influence in the operation of the discord, I appreciate the more organized approach of having bans/unbans on the forums. Sure, the discord could be facilitated for such uses as a ban request repository, and I'm prepared for that should the forums ever go kaput, but then we gotta ensure things remain organized. The forums give us built in organization using format tools that frankly make sense. Both serve their purpose well.

I do echo rand's point that old rep is probably best. I have come to learn that many opinions, especially in this community, are sometimes flat out stupid. That being said the abuse is an issue due to the recovery time. I have offered my services to assist in cleaning up rep whenever someone goes rogue, as I know that was one of the main issues factoring into the removal (the recent issue with leviilei resulted in hours of work by Matt to reverse a - rep attack).

My suggestion is this:

1. Implement old rep system back with comments/etc
   
2. Implement a rule against individuals -rep ing more than 3 posts per thread
   
3. Implement a rule against individuals +/-rep ing posts without a concrete opinion, such as just posting a steam ID, etc.
   
4. Implement a rule against +/-rep on ban requests
   
5. Implement a rule against -rep of posts older than 2 days
   
6. Implement a rule against collusion to +/-rep other posts (aka solicitation of rep or colluding to manipulate own or someone's rep
   
7. Consider implement an opt in to the rep system, meaning individuals can choose to enable their own rep system
   
8. Consider implementing a cap on -rep on various posts
   
9. Disable all rep in the shitposting subforum to prevent abuse
   
10. Implement a stricter punishment that immediately bans anyone violating the system. If they don't want a ban, they can choose to not use it.
    

Lets just get rid of those who abuse it. Having the ability to +/-1 someone's opinion shouldn't be taken away imo. The ability to weaponize rep to troll should

My solution is coarse but a starting point would be to get +rep back.