Sim
Administrator
Reputation is a system where by users of the forum can rate other people's posts and the contribution other posters make to the forum.
If lots of people consider a poster to be a great contributor who adds a lot of value, then they will be given an increased "reputation" score by the ratings given by everyone else. This reputation means very little in real terms - it's just a measurement of other people's opinions.
If people consider a poster to be nothing but a troublemaker (or troll, or abusive, or clueless etc etc), then their reputation will be diminished by the negative votes they will receive.
Reputation is awarded by clicking on the little symbol with the tick and the cross next to it on a post. You then get prompted to select whether you approve or disapprove of the post and you can even make a comment.
You get to see what comments other people have made about your posts in your control panel - but you do not see who made the comment.
The act of approving or disapproving of a post will have an impact on a users overall reputation score. The reputation score awarded to a user by other users is a dynamic value and changes as people rate the posts of that user.
The value of your reputation score is reflected on each post you make by a series of dots - the number of dots represents the "level" you reach - an arbitrary ranking that I can customise if need be.
All users start with a reputation score of 10. A user with a single grey dot has a score less than 10. Between 10 and 50, they will get a single green dot, between 50 and 150 two green dots, and so on. The more dots someone has , the higher their reputation score is. The actual levels and scores required for each level can be changed if we think it could be done better. The default system starts people at 10 and goes up to 2000 (you can have a reputation score higher than 2000, but you won't get any more dots than you already have).
So how do you affect other people's reputation ?
When you approve or disapprove of someone's post, you change their reputation score. The actual amount you change their score by depends on a number of factors... how long you have been a member, how many posts you have made yourself and how much reputation you have yourself.
The actual weightings given to these factors can be adjusted if I think they need to be. There are also minimum requirements to be able to change someone elses reputation score.
By default, you must have at least 50 posts of your own before you can start affecting anyone elses reputation score, you must also have a reputation of at least 10 (the value everyone starts with).
Someone who has registered within the last 365 days, who has between 50 and 1000 posts and a reputation between 10 and 100, will have a "reputation power" (the amount by which you can change someone elses score) of 1. This means that if they approve someone elses post, the score of the person they approved will go up by 1 point.
You start with a power of 1 (if you have at least 50 posts and a reputation of at least 10). You then gain one point of reputation altering power for every 365 days you have been a member of the forum, another one point for every 1000 posts you have made, and 1 more point for every 100 points of reputation you have yourself.
So if you have been on the forum for 18 months, have made 1400 posts, and have a reputation score of 120, then you can add to someone elses reputation by up to 4 points at a time. You have a reputation power of 4.
Negative comments only receive half the weight. So if you have a reputation power of 4 and you make a negative comment about someone, their reputation will drop by only two points.
There are limits to how many reputation clicks you can give in each 24 hour period - the current value is set to 10 meaning that you can only do 10 reputation scores a day. Also, you can only change reputation for the same person after giving 20 other users reputation scores. Which effectively means if on day one you give 10 reputation scores out to 10 different people, then on day two you give 10 reputation scores to 10 new people, then on day three you can start giving reputation to people you gave reputation to on day one again.
Overall I think the system is a great way for people to let others know what they think of individual posters and the contribution they make.
It in no way implies expertise or credibility or honesty or integrity or any other such thing. It is simply an opinion of the weighting that people give to the posts of other members.
Also, be aware that administrators can remove reputation completely for individuals - and will do so if the system is abused.
If lots of people consider a poster to be a great contributor who adds a lot of value, then they will be given an increased "reputation" score by the ratings given by everyone else. This reputation means very little in real terms - it's just a measurement of other people's opinions.
If people consider a poster to be nothing but a troublemaker (or troll, or abusive, or clueless etc etc), then their reputation will be diminished by the negative votes they will receive.
Reputation is awarded by clicking on the little symbol with the tick and the cross next to it on a post. You then get prompted to select whether you approve or disapprove of the post and you can even make a comment.
You get to see what comments other people have made about your posts in your control panel - but you do not see who made the comment.
The act of approving or disapproving of a post will have an impact on a users overall reputation score. The reputation score awarded to a user by other users is a dynamic value and changes as people rate the posts of that user.
The value of your reputation score is reflected on each post you make by a series of dots - the number of dots represents the "level" you reach - an arbitrary ranking that I can customise if need be.
All users start with a reputation score of 10. A user with a single grey dot has a score less than 10. Between 10 and 50, they will get a single green dot, between 50 and 150 two green dots, and so on. The more dots someone has , the higher their reputation score is. The actual levels and scores required for each level can be changed if we think it could be done better. The default system starts people at 10 and goes up to 2000 (you can have a reputation score higher than 2000, but you won't get any more dots than you already have).
So how do you affect other people's reputation ?
When you approve or disapprove of someone's post, you change their reputation score. The actual amount you change their score by depends on a number of factors... how long you have been a member, how many posts you have made yourself and how much reputation you have yourself.
The actual weightings given to these factors can be adjusted if I think they need to be. There are also minimum requirements to be able to change someone elses reputation score.
By default, you must have at least 50 posts of your own before you can start affecting anyone elses reputation score, you must also have a reputation of at least 10 (the value everyone starts with).
Someone who has registered within the last 365 days, who has between 50 and 1000 posts and a reputation between 10 and 100, will have a "reputation power" (the amount by which you can change someone elses score) of 1. This means that if they approve someone elses post, the score of the person they approved will go up by 1 point.
You start with a power of 1 (if you have at least 50 posts and a reputation of at least 10). You then gain one point of reputation altering power for every 365 days you have been a member of the forum, another one point for every 1000 posts you have made, and 1 more point for every 100 points of reputation you have yourself.
So if you have been on the forum for 18 months, have made 1400 posts, and have a reputation score of 120, then you can add to someone elses reputation by up to 4 points at a time. You have a reputation power of 4.
Negative comments only receive half the weight. So if you have a reputation power of 4 and you make a negative comment about someone, their reputation will drop by only two points.
There are limits to how many reputation clicks you can give in each 24 hour period - the current value is set to 10 meaning that you can only do 10 reputation scores a day. Also, you can only change reputation for the same person after giving 20 other users reputation scores. Which effectively means if on day one you give 10 reputation scores out to 10 different people, then on day two you give 10 reputation scores to 10 new people, then on day three you can start giving reputation to people you gave reputation to on day one again.
Overall I think the system is a great way for people to let others know what they think of individual posters and the contribution they make.
It in no way implies expertise or credibility or honesty or integrity or any other such thing. It is simply an opinion of the weighting that people give to the posts of other members.
Also, be aware that administrators can remove reputation completely for individuals - and will do so if the system is abused.
