Rep Points..does anybody really care about them?

[jdjohnson9]

Thanks for trying to keep us informed with the rep points. I cant figure it out for nothing. I have 3 invisible and i went from the black stone thing to the green one. Not sure how or why but atleast its not red. haha. Its all crazy imo.

[dank24]

I don't even look at the rep points. There should be something set up like ebay has with the buyers/sellers leave feedback for one another. We use that system over on clubcivic and it works out well.

[TOOL]

Originally Posted by Mx6GT89

I just passed some to everyone in this thread above besides Tyler. Said I needed to spread Rep.
Sorry Ty.

Wow...I just noticed that you posted that..My feelings are alittle bit hurt man .
Ok im over it, its all good..I think..

[Sugarphreak]

hehe, my work here is done

[Sid 6.7]

It appears that it shows you who rep'ed you only for a short time and then they fall off. I know I've had several people rep me, but they don't show up anymore.

And the more rep a person has, the more rep points they hand out or take away when they leave rep. Someone who has 6 rep points will affect a person's rep a LOT more than someone with 0 or 1 points.

[Snap Fit]

Originally Posted by Sid 6.7

...And the more rep a person has, the more rep points they hand out or take away when they leave rep. Someone who has 6 rep points will affect a person's rep a LOT more than someone with 0 or 1 points.

very interesting...hmmm, so is this from what you have noticed on other forums or from experience on here?

I cannot say that my observations have supported this (but it might) I should look at all my findings together and see what changed and when...but from who, as this might clear things up.
thanks

[Sid 6.7]

What I noticed here.

smeister left me positive rep, my first rep ever, and it said I had 12 rep points total. So he left 12 rep points all by himself. That's a lot of power.

[Snap Fit]

Originally Posted by Sid 6.7

What I noticed here.
smeister left me positive rep, my first rep ever, and it said I had 12 rep points total. So he left 12 rep points all by himself. That's a lot of power.

WOW...Holy I am definately catering to the wrong crowd then...j/k ppl. I love you all and you know it


oddly enough it was your rep that sent me to my next invisible one (I have been stuck on 16 for like a googolplex reps)

[fits_all]

ive been repped like 4 times because of this thread lol.
and...it hasnt changed from 19 points even though it keeps appearing that another member has left me a new rep point

[Snap Fit]

Originally Posted by fits_all

ive been repped like 4 times because of this thread lol.
and...it hasnt changed from 19 points even though it keeps appearing that another member has left me a new rep point

Did you happen to notice what the other peoples reps were??? (like how many they had) I know we have no clue as to how many invisibles they have but we can tell if their tick tack is red, grey, green, or if the have 1,2,3....reps (visible)

If what has been recently said is correct, then they might have been people with little to no rep who repped you...get the gist???

[jdjohnson9]

Im still trying to figure out why the mods/admin havent jumped in and told us how it all works out. There has got to be someone on here that knows how this all works.

Thanks sid 6.7 for the rep. Now i have 4 invisible reps

[Snap Fit]

Originally Posted by jdjohnson9

Im still trying to figure out why the mods/admin havent jumped in and told us how it all works out. There has got to be someone on here that knows how this all works.

hint...hint....they dont know either...heehee......
psssst...but if you do....just pm me...I wont tell a soul
I will keep it on the down low....

[jdjohnson9]

The only thing i can think of is making a new member profile and using it as a test bed. It could work but it would have to be all figured out and nobody could interfere. Hmm... Maybe it could work?

[Snap Fit]

Originally Posted by jdjohnson9

The only thing i can think of is making a new member profile and using it as a test bed. It could work but it would have to be all figured out and nobody could interfere. Hmm... Maybe it could work?

I am already on that with a fellow member....
but wont tell who nor will they...cuz it would fudge it up ...

I will release the findings soon enough....hush...hush




I wave to you secrete weapon ...errr I mean secret member person...

pm me tonight k?

[jdjohnson9]

Sneaky sneaky. How does that work? You have to rep a bunch of people before you rep the same person again. Hmm... Im very interested in this. If you need any help with it shoot me a PM. Im pretty good at following directions

Originally Posted by Snap Fit

I am already on that with a fellow member....
but wont tell who nor will they...cuz it would fudge it up ...

I will release the findings soon enough....hush...hush




I wave to you secrete weapon ...errr I mean secret member person...

pm me tonight k?

[TOOL]

Originally Posted by jdjohnson9

Sneaky sneaky. How does that work? You have to rep a bunch of people before you rep the same person again. Hmm... Im very interested in this. If you need any help with it shoot me a PM. Im pretty good at following directions

Isnt that kinda abusing the system lol???

Tyler

[FractalJackal]

If anyone is really interested, here is the breakdown from vbulletin on how reputation works. it is long, and if you aren't interested you should probably ignore it, and me.


**edit** Also, this left out several graphs/charts/pictures when I cut and pasted it. I think it is still readable and conveys the information, and I am too lazy to go back and try and integrate the missing parts. **edit**

**Second edit** There is a much shorter breakdown of this post in the following post that highlights the pertinant parts and how they probably apply to this forum. **second edit**


An Introduction to User Reputation

User Reputation in its simplest form is a ranking of your user's benefit to your forum. Its basis comes from the opinions of all of your forum users that choose take part in it.

Users gain and lose reputation based on how their posts are scored by other forum participants. Users with the ability to affect reputation, will either give or take aways points by approving or disapproving with a post's content.

User reputation can be a divisive element of your forum so great care should be taken before a decision is made to enable it.

All of the factors that affect a user's reputation score are found in the User Reputation section of the vBulletin Options. Please view that section of the manual for more information on controlling how users are able to affect another user's reputation.

Modifying User Reputation Levels

As users, gain and lose reputation, they are associated with a moniker that describes their current level. These levels are modifiable by navigating to User Reputations->User Reputation Manager.

In the above example, we have all of the levels that users on this forum can achieve. For example, a user with a reputation of 55 would have the level of will become famous soon enough. A user with a reputation of -5 would have a level of has a little shameless behaviour in the past. Since the lowest level in this example is -99999, any user with a reputation lower than this would use the default undefined level that is set in the reputation section of the vBulletin Options.

From this screen you can choose to edit a level description, change a level minimum or remove a level. If you wanted to change the minimum level of has a reputation beyond repute from 2000 to 3000 you would enter 3000 in the input field where 2000 is currently and press [Update]

If you wished to change the text of has a reputation beyond repute, you would press the <Edit> link.

From this screen you can also change the minimum level as you can from the previous screen. Enter the new level text in the Description field but take care as you can not use HTML in this field. Press [Update] when finished.

Adding a new reputation level presents you with the same screen, but only empty. Make sure to choose a reputation level that is not the same as a level that already exists as levels must be unique. You will not be allowed to save the field if you duplicate a minimum level.

Viewing Reputation Comments

If you wish to see which users are leaving reputation for others and the comments they are making, you may navigate to User Reputation > View Reputation Comments. You will be presented with a form, allowing you to search based on criteria such as the user the reputation was left for or by (optional) and a range of dates to search across.

Once you submit this form you will receive results in a table like this:

This shows:

· The user that left the reputation
· The user that received the reputation
· The date and time the reputation was left
· The amount of reputation this user received
· The reason or comment the user giving the reputation left
· The post that prompted this user to leave reputation

You may also edit or delete the reputation that was left.

User Reputation

This section contains many settings that dictate how users of your forum are able to affect each other's reputation score.

· Enable User Reputation system
This is the global switch for the reputation system. If you disable this, users will not be able to rate each other nor will their scores be visible.
· Default Reputation
This is the reputation score that new users will start out with.
· Number of Reputation Levels to Display
When a user enters their User CP, they will see a list of their most recent reputation ratings. This affects how many of the latest ratings to display.
· Administrator's Reputation Power
If you wish to have administrator's wield a certain reputation power independent of their calculated score, enter it here. Otherwise, set this to 0 and they will use the same calculations as everyone else.
· Register Date Factor
The number of reputation points that a user is able to give or take is dependant on several factors, with the length they have been registered as one of them. A user's power is first initialized at 1 and then this factor and the factors that follow are used to increase it. For example if you set this to 365, every 365 days that the user has been a member of your forum, they would gain one point. So if they have been a member for five years, they would gain 5 points of power for a total of 6.
· Post Count Factor
The amount of posts that a user has can also affect their reputation power. Set this to number of posts that you want to award one point for. For example, set this to 50 and for a user with 500 posts, they would gain 10 points of power.
· Reputation Point Factor
The users current reputation score can also affect their reputation power. Set this to 100 and a user with a reputation of 1000 would gain 10 points of reputation power. If you set any of the power factors to 0, that will effectively remove that factor from having an effect on the user's reputation power.
· Minimum Post Count
If the reputation system is enabled, anyone will be able to rate a post but only users with a post count above the level you set here will be able to actually give points or take points from another user.
· Minimum Reputation Count
As with the post count above, a user must have a reputation above this level to be able to give or take points from another user's score.
· Daily Reputation Clicks Limit
This sets how many unique members that a forum user will be able to rate in any 24 hour period. Administrators can rate as many people as they wish.
· Reputation User Spread
This setting dictates how many unique members that a user must rate before they are able to rate the same member twice. The goal of this setting is to stop a member from either artificially bumping or dropping a user by repeatedly rating their posts.

[FractalJackal]

This is the short breakdown of the above post as it applies to this board (us).

· Enable User Reputation system - this option is set to yes.
· Default Reputation - this is probably 0 so we start with no rep.
· Number of Reputation Levels to Display - I don't know on this one as I have 0 rep, but based off SnapFits reports it is set low, so you can't see much of your "rep history".
· Administrator's Reputation Power - Not sure on this one, but I think bassed off one of the posts here that admins have mush higher Rep weighting.
· Register Date Factor - Another unknown, though I believe it is safe to assume that older users have more rep weighting.
· Post Count Factor - Another unknown, but once again more posts probably equates to more rep weight.
· Reputation Point Factor - We have concluded that this affects rep weight through observations on this thread, although with the further information on other factors to rep weighting this could be incorrect.
· Minimum Post Count - I personally gave out rep at under 3 posts, so I am fairly certain there is no minimum post count.
· Minimum Reputation Count - I have no rep, so once again there is no minimum rep count.
· Daily Reputation Clicks Limit - I am uncertain on this one, a quick pass through this thread repping everyone would quickly tell you how many people you are allowed to rep per day though.
· Reputation User Spread - This is set to at least two users...in other words to rep someone I must rep two other people before I am allowe dto rep that user again.

Hope this helps.

[jdjohnson9]

Its not abusing the system if your doing it for a good cause ie using it to find out info. How does nobody on here know what is goin on with the rep points?

Originally Posted by TOOL

Isnt that kinda abusing the system lol???

Tyler

[TOOL]

Originally Posted by jdjohnson9

Its not abusing the system if your doing it for a good cause ie using it to find out info. How does nobody on here know what is goin on with the rep points?

It is abusing the system if you rep your friend, go rep a bunch of other people randomly just to rep your friend again..

Tyler