Reputation Eval

[Neo]

Now that Survivor is over I can turn my attention to other things such as rolling out the new style, finding a replacement for Stu, upgrading the boards, and taking another look at reputation.

It's been a few months since we rolled out the reputation system and I wanted to get a feel for whether or not it's been working. If you have any opinions one way or another, now is the time to chime in. Below I've pasted the general rules as a refresher. I've also updated the ranks up to a rep of 3000.



Every member has certain privileges which is based on their amount of reputation. Please note that your privileges are not based on the number of posts you’ve accumulated. The rank which appears under your name is the only thing that is post count dependent. In addition, you will gain 1 gold star for every 1000 posts up to 5000.

It’s in your best interest to build your reputation as it determines what you’re actually able to do in the forums. There are four promotional groups which you can reach by having a specific level of reputation.


P0 (registered user)
P1 Bronze (500 reputation)
P2 Silver (1000 reputation)
P3 Gold (1500 reputation)
P4 Platinum (2000 reputation)

You gain 1 points of rep for every positive ratings. Ratings are made by clicking on the shout icon on the lower right corner of someone's post. If you receive 1 positives on 50 of your posts, that's 50 points of positive rep for you. This system will be tweaked based on how often people actually give ratings.

Your initial rep is based on the number of posts you have. This is because the number of doubloons you had was roughly dependent on your post count. If you did not get your conversion yet speak to either me or Bond. I updated about 60 of you so far.

You gain one green pip for every 10 rep and a bright green pip for every 20 rep. This is hardcoded and cannot be changed yet. I realize those current values don't work well with our rating system. Plus the max number of pips you can have now is 11.

P0 Privileges
Avatars
Poll Voting
Download attachements
Post attachements
Poll Posting
View Who’s online
3 PM buddies
50 PM storage

P1 Bronze
Private Message Tracking
Email to a friend
6 PM buddies
100 PM limit

P2 Silver
Deny read reciept
Create/Lead user group on approval
9 PM buddies
150 PM limit

P3 Gold
Invisible mode
Can Change user name
Black Project access
12 PM buddies
200 PM

P4 Platinum
Custom Rank
250 PM
15 PM buddies
see who left user rating