nzjrs wrote: ↑Mon Jun 25, 2018 1:26 pm
turbof1 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 25, 2018 1:07 pm
nzjrs wrote: ↑Mon Jun 25, 2018 12:58 pm
There are a handful of users on this forum who have negative reputation, but they continue to make flagrantly off-topic and inflammatory posts. Those posts are then deleted, and as far as I can tell, deleted posts do not contribute to the reputation score. This leads to the reputation score not reflecting truly how bad certain users are.
Is there any possibility that this could be corrected? This bias can mislead moderators and users on the usefulness of certain posters.
? Deleted posts that were downrated, still have their votes counting, unless the votes are manually removed by the moderator group.
This is how it currently works however. I don't recall how it did a year ago. We introduced back then a way to "soft" delete messages, so the deleted message would only be hidden unless hard deleted afterwards. But this is definitely how it works now: messages that get removed keep their vote status.
Are you absolutely sure? I've just seen a users rep go up by exactly the value of their (negative rated) deleted posts this very morning. I've observed this happen many times to a few particular users that I reluctantly keep an eye on.
I can confirm. It's always been like that.
Usually, ratings are not deleted when removing posts.
However, there have been times when I removed a whole bunch of ratings when it was found people abused the system. In those cases, the ratings are removed, and the poster's rep is impacted as well. I've had questions about this previously, but seeing your own rep change somewhat does not mean you're doing anything wrong. It's us/me doing some corrections (usually combined with people getting their rating perissions revoked).
Those who abuse/misuse the system are personally informed.