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Originally Posted by jdjohnson9
Damn i just tried to rep you Snap Fit and it is still saying i have to spread the wealth even though i repped ten people yesterday and a couple the day before since i have repped you last. This doesnt make any sense anymore. Its got to be either 15 or 20 between repping the same person again and also there has to be some kind of time thing on it aswell cause i remember reppin TOOL a long time ago and a couple months later without reppin anyone in between it let me rep him again.
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Regarding this one, there is probably a time decay as well. Lets say the "spread number" is 20, if you give out 20 reps, then you can go back and rep again. But it probably drops by like 1 per day as well, so if you wait 15 days AND you rep 5 people, then you can rep the first person again. This is just an example, the decay rate could be 1 per week or month, there is not enough data to accurately guess at the decay number.
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Originally Posted by jdjohnson9
That would be terrible if they were messing with us. Especially cause they dont even know how it works. Unless they do and are just watching us squirm? Hmm...
 Hi Admin. Come help us figure this out please  |
I know that somewhere an admin knows how the rep system work, when they were setting up the forum, the board owner (FaceYogurt? not sure who the HMIC here is...) must have enabled these options. Couple of possible reasons why they might not be telling us what is going on...
1. They don't want us to know becuase the rep system has a history of being harmful to forums. Many people get so tied up in rep apparently that they do things counter-productive to board intrests to gain rep, such as spamming, attacking other board members, creating multiple accounts for the sole purpose of raising thier rep higher, etc.
2. Whoever originally set up the rep system here has since forgotten. There are a lot of options to configure when setting up a forum like this, and it has been quite a while since it has been set up. I would probably have forgotten what I had originally configured it for as well...
3. They have other stuff on thier plate. Managing a forum like this is a lot of work. Between arranging stuff with vendors, lining up advertisers, dealing with true issues on the board (trolls, spammers, negligent posters etc.). Our curiosity about a relatively minor aspect of the board functions probably isn't on the top of the to-do list.
4. A combination of all of the above.