If you really need a "reputation rating" to participate on a message board, then perhaps you need to step away and go outside.

The decision was made based on MULTIPLE reports from MULTIPLE users regarding reputation votes.  Many may not remember, but a person was able to leave a comment when giving another user "reputation" either good or bad that only the person would see.  That feature was abused by some and the mod/admin team had to field many reports regarding it, so we decided to remove the ability to make a comment.  The complaints and "reports" that the mod/admin team continued to get is what resulted in this decision.  Evidently there are some people that seem to think that their only source of self-esteem is solely their "reputation score".

The mod/admin team is not here to babysit.  If the "reputation" feature is so important to users, there are plenty of other social media sites that offer the "feature" to stoke self-esteem.  Off the top of my head there is reddit, twitter, facebook and probably instagram and snapchat.  Go upvote, downvote, like, etc. until your heart's content and you feel better.

In the meantime unless our admin/mod team deems otherwise the "feature" is gone and not coming back.  Get over it.

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