3.4+ Please bring back the ability to use negative numbers in warnings

[T-T]

My community has used negative and positive numbers in the warning system for many years. This is used so that the warning system acts more like a warning as well as a reinforcement system. Do something bad? Negative 1 is given. Do something good and +1 is given. These positive "warnings" (though we renamed warns) are a prize for being helpful and nice to others in the community in much the same way that negative "warnings" reflect bad behavior. This was set up using -1 values for negative behavior and +1 for positive contributions in the ACP. It has worked wonderfully in 3.2 and 3.3. once I upgraded to 3.4 all of the negative values were reset to 0 and IPB no longer recognizes negative numbers. I am not sure if this is the result of this bug or some other reason... Please bring back this ability to use negative values ( <0 ).

[Michael]

You're using the warning system for a purpose other than what it was designed for. If you want to give a +1 for good behavior and a -1 for bad, use the reputation system.

[Ryan H.]

You're using the warning system for a purpose other than what it was designed for. If you want to give a +1 for good behavior and a -1 for bad, use the reputation system.

Once upon a time it was designed for it... even when the warning system was revamped (3.0?), it was still backwards-compatible. They broke it completely in 3.3 without a mention anywhere.

[Michael]

Yes, it was once designed for it, before the reputation system existed. How much sense does it make to have two different systems for giving positive and negative feedback?

What I said above still is what I would recommend: use the warning system if you want to issue warnings, and use the reputation system if you want to make note of both positive and negative actions on your members.