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"Whatever exists, whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. These anonymous creatures may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing. Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth."
Posted by: operativeace
2. The person that's getting the rep can see who is giving the rep and why so that way the person that's getting the rep can report the issue to the mods if something arises and the person that is getting any abusing rep can allow the moderators to see the comments and rep so the moderator can take action and the user that's getting the rep can't change anything. Basically the rep will have a small link that can only be seen by the moderators so it can't be tampered with.
Aha! Herein lies the problem. You're asking the members to supply the input, which will of course be a lot, and then you have the mods keeping the system clean. But in order for this to work well, you would have to assume that no one has friends or enemies, or at least none that will try to manipulate the system, and is not a person who would manipulate the system on their own.
Let's say we have John Member. John saw that pretty rep system, and wanted a good rep too. So he asked his friends to give him good rep. He asked his friends to have their friends give him good rep, and in return he gave them all good rep. But that wasn't enough. He wants more, so he makes a couple of accounts, gives them some features so they seem real, and then gives himself good rep. Now John is a moderator candidate, or a really good member, but he doesn't deserve to be, does he?