Reputations

[BankFodder]

You can now give credit to users whose posts you find especially useful.

Click on the little scales icon in the top right of the post.

there are five levels

We now have a system of reputations in place.

 

 

User Novitiate 0

User Informative 100

User Highly informative 250

User Authoritative 600

User Highly authoritative 1000

 

However, you have to build up reputaion giving power yourself by being a user for a certain number of days and having a certain number of posts.

 

The idea is to give an indication to newcomers as to whose posts they should pay particular attention to.

 

We'll see how the system goes and refine it as we learn more about it.

 

PLEASE NOTE: Moderators can give negative reputations for posting in the wrong forum or for hijackng threads - or for not having read the FAQ

[cheddar]

Thats a good idea as well as being able to report posts and link to a certain post by it's number! Hurrah, this just gets better and better.

[seylectric]

Ooooooh, I wondered what those little scales were for!

[BankFodder]

Register Date Factor

for every 40 number of days, users gain 1 point of reputation-altering power.

Post Count Factor

For every 40number of posts, users gain 1 point of reputation-altering power.

Reputation Point Factor

For every 60 points of reputation, users gain 1 point of reputation-altering power.

Minimum Post Count 50

How many posts must a user have before his reputation hits count on others?

Minimum Reputation Count 50

How much reputation must a user have before his reputation hits count on others?

Daily Reputation Clicks Limit 5

How many reputation clicks can a user give over each 24 hour period? Administrators are exempt from this limit.

Reputation User Spread 10

How many different users must you give reputation to before you can hit the same person again? Administrators are exempt from this limit.

 

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I'm not a statistician so I can't work it out but I am trying to perceive a line of logic which does favour quite high quality posting. We'll see how it works over the next weeks and adjust as necessary.

 

I want it to be a useful forum tool for newcomers to depend on and not merely a competition for promotion goals.

 

Hopefully it will help to raise the whole quality of the forum information as newcomers will tend to get an idea of the more useful contributions and take notice of them and repeat them in their own posts

[fallen404]

Ooooooh, I wondered what those little scales were for!

 

For weighing out delicious bowls of hot creamy justice! (Hi, I'm Kent Brockman!)

 

Looks like a good idea, BF. It'll certainly mean people will be able to spot which posts are useful more easily. Although I'll probably end up with -5,000 reputation points by the end of the week...

[Robertxc]

How do you find out what someone's reputation is?

 

(Please don't give me a negative if the answer to this is really obvious!)

[dave]

The little green dots by your posts.

 

 

...I think.

[Spiceskull]

It's not that intuitive - you need to count them up, and whilst most people are currently on 'one green dot' it is hard to tell who's green dot is better...!!! Numbers may be a better idea!

[dave]

Possibly, although it's a restriction of the forum software.

 

I'm wondering if the "Thanks" button such as on Martin Lewis' site mightn't be a bad idea?

[Spiceskull]

In all honesty, I think my favourite feature would be allowing me to turn off mine, as the mods can, because I personally find it distracting...

[dave]

Sadly, you can only turn it off for usergroups.

 

To turn it off for "Registered Users" would turn it off for everyone.

 

I think it's a good idea.

 

Newcomers to the site would have an indication of peoples experience this way.

[Robertxc]

Assuming, that is, that they can figure it out...

[Robertxc]

I wonder who thought up the names of the different levels? As a 'novitiate' I feel like I should be wearing a hassock or something.

[Bookworm]

And a hair shirt.... Oooh, matron...

[Janet-M]

My off button isn't working ... hint hint lol

[Spiceskull]

...well...I've always wanted to be a flagellant...and now I can be...I wonder what the next level is...Grand Inquisitor?...Banksmeller Pursuivant...?...

[seylectric]

From what I can gather (sorry if I've got it wrong) you can get points for every forty days you post, every forty posts you, well, post, and so on.

 

If this is correct you can get extra points just for posting regularly, it might be any old drivel. Or extra points just for being here?

 

I might be missing something but surely that is no indicator of the quality of the posts? Feel free to disregard this drivel, of course!

[HD]

You can give people extra points by clicking on the picture of the scales at the top of a post, or you can take points away the same way. The ammount of points you give depends on how many you've got.

[Spiceskull]

From what I can gather (sorry if I've got it wrong) you can get points for every forty days you post, every forty posts you, well, post, and so on.

 

If this is correct you can get extra points just for posting regularly, it might be any old drivel. Or extra points just for being here?

 

I might be missing something but surely that is no indicator of the quality of the posts? Feel free to disregard this drivel, of course!

That is exactly the way I interpret BFs description...and as you say, regularity is no indicator of usefulness...still, I think that people will judge differently anyway - if a poster has a query, and your response is easier to grasp than the next, equally valid, response, then the poster will hunt down your answers in the future...

[bram stoker]

Well, at least give it a chance, it will take time to establish. It's a good idea for newbies to be able to guage who on here is of some use.

 

It's a little pessimistic to be thinking that the system won't work, will be abused etc, when you good folks on here can actually aid the system. It seems to me that if regular and helpful users use the scales system, after a while, you'll all have given each other a nice few points (and gained more to give each other more points on more good threads), and others will give too. Then newbies will see how nice and helfull you lovely people are and you gain more points.

 

I think if anyone's going to abuse the system it will be spotted and the mods will sort it. That's what they're there for, right?

 

I've only £45 to claim back, but I'm damn well making the effort, and any effort to improve this site is good in my book.

 

I'm in. I'll play. I think it will be appreciated by newbies.

[HD]

It seeme to work well on other sites that I post on. I think at the moment people have not got enough points themselves to make any difference when they add to peoples reputation. I think that as people use the system it will change and give a more accurate picture of who is giving good advice. Maybe the mods, who tend to pick up more points, could give out to those who are giving good advice to "seed" the process.

[seylectric]

Don't get me wrong, I wasn't "knocking" it, in fact generally I think it's a great idea but in the context of things I just thought it was a little bit strange to give points just for being here!

 

It's not an idea I have come acroos before, but i can see the potential benefits.

[Overdrawn]

my reputation has been blackened by a troll that visited last week

[HD]

It hasn't been blackened. It's grey because s/he did not have enough points to change your rep. They did the same to me.

[Guest Lueeze]

Eh? Im confused...How did the Troll manage to do that?