Reputation

[thatmariolover]

Originally Posted by gekko

And that's why you have no rep.

[sarcasm]Oh is that why? Thanks for making such a contribution to the forum with that post.[/sarcasm]

At any rate, I've never personally been in favor of it, but I've not gotten a whole lot of voice on the matter. It's cool, but I think that limiting peoples functionality on the forums is lame (based on rep at least). It's just not an accurate system to tracking the 1337 people on the forums and rewarding them. As it is now, there are a lot of very well respected people on this board that are getting a bad end of the deal. There are many people I have great respect for with lower rep than those who don't have my respect. Often just because they're not scoping out "post here for rep" threads (exaggerated obviously, but you get my point).

I guess if I want all of those fancy shmancy features I'll have to work to get a higher rep count.

But sometimes it's the things that people don't post that makes me like them more.

[Typhoid]

I kinda like the rep system, but it is flawed in sorts of ways, but i want it to stay here.

Although i dont understand getting rewards for having lots of rep, say you say something that offends a powerful person, they could take you down a few nothces, i dont think thats all to fair.

But i cannot see a way around it, except for taking rep out, which i am opposed to.



EDIT: and how does this rep power thing work? Cuz i have more rep ( i think) than thatmariolover, yet he has more rep power than me...and he only has about 100 more posts than me too...im confused..

[GameMaster]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

EDIT: and how does this rep power thing work? Cuz i have more rep ( i think) than thatmariolover, yet he has more rep power than me...and he only has about 100 more posts than me too...im confused..

thatmariolover has been here at GT way longer than you, which contributes to his reputation power advantage. Time is a factor as described here:

http://www.gametavern.net/forums/sho...42&postcount=2

[DimHalo]

Personally, I like the rep system. Its a goal to work towards. Especially when things get dull around here. Its something that keeps me around when talk is boring, or gets me to post more interesting things to boost conversation. ANd isn't that what some of this stuff is for? To keep people coming to the forum.

[Acebot44]

Yeah, that's what I thought the whole system was for. If you want some Rep, you should work a little bit to make your posts creative and entertaining for the community.

[ominub]

I hardly ever post so I dont mind the way the rep system is now lol.

[Neo]

I knew when we first implemented the reputation system that it would need to be tweaked many times before we arrived at a fair and accurate system. The problem with rewarding people based soley on number of posts is obvious. Now this isn't so true now, but back in the day I knew several users with thousands of posts that were total douchebags. As it stands we have 21 users which are members of the P4 group, which is a large percentage of our active user base. There's definitely not a disproportionate amount of users with no special privileges at all.

A promotion system based on reputation obviously works best on forums with a large number of active users since you have a bigger data pool. I'm considering several ways of changing the system, such as increasing the rate at which users gain reputation-altering power. Another involves incorporating post count into the promotion system, perhaps by requiring a certain reputation OR a certain number of posts to get promoted. But it would be designed to where if you are a halfway decent poster you'll get promoted through rep faster than you would through total # of posts.

Part of the reason I wanted everyone's rep power displayed was to make the reputation system as a whole more visible and thereby encourage people to make use of it. If someone with a rep power of 10 gives you 25 positives then you're halfway to the next promotional level. The required levels really aren't that difficult to attain. Btw, I believe if you give someone (-) rep it doesn't count as much as (+) rep. If people need to be promoted faster (it's not clear yet if this is happening too slowly) I'd like to see that happen through increased user participation instead of giving users more rep-altering power.