Bitcointalk users who don't trade, just holding or trying to collect Bit/altcoin don't really care about the reputation of other users since they will not interact with them. For people trading, yea, they need to know who to trust. Personally, i prefer keeping both scam accusations and reputation there...it is up to traders to make their search and establish their trust network...
I think it can be useful in normal discussions too, if I know about the reputation of my discussion partner. The trust rating is a good factor to have a reference. But I agree, the main thing is about trading to get an impression of who is trustworthy and who not.
What's so irritating about it OP?, I mean are you having some bad time looking for it or anything? What makes Reputation boeard irritate you? We may find it weird that "why it is in trading discussion section" but, I think Admin won't put that board over there without any reason. Maybe Invoking was right about what he said, he got some point there, but Steamtyme seems agreeing with you that's why your idea is not too bad as well.
There are times that we shouldn't judge something just because it looks like it doesn't belong to a particular place in short "out of place".
Maybe irritated is a wrong word for this, but I think you agree, reputation is something related to the forum and therefore I thought the place where you can find this board at the moment is not apparent. First, I thought trading discussion is about crypto trading / trading platforms and so on. Like Altcoin discussion about Altcoins, Bitcoin discussion about Bitcoins and trading discussion about crypto trading.
It was only a suggestion because I wondered about the place of this board. Sure, there are more challenging and important issues, but after all I think moving a board is less complicated if it is really necessary.
Reputation and Scam Accusations are related to the trust systems here, and trust is based on trades. Maybe that's why.
However, I don't think trading discussion was initially meant for stupid threads like
How to take the risk in trading? or threads like
How you make profit? but rather for this:
Discussion about doing business with Bitcoin. Best trading practices, delivery methods etc.
Yes, that makes sense... It could be that this section was originally planned for that and nowadays all the scammy ICOs are reported there (Scam Accusation) and in trading discussion also a little bit off-topic or low-effort threads.
