Thank People By Boosting Their Reputation

[rudeboy]

i do, i do... more then a few times already, great feature.

[inf3st]

Originally Posted by inf3st

How do you check othere peoples rep?

I figured this out. Just go to Member list and the arange them by rep. Mine blows

[bpaul24]

Originally Posted by inf3st

I figured this out. Just go to Member list and the arange them by rep. Mine blows

What do you mean yours blows? You are up there. I am not sure the rep thing means much anyway. The only thing you can do is arrange them in the memberlist? That is kinda lame, need to add more features or something.

[Pony99CA]

Originally Posted by inf3st

I figured this out. Just go to Member list and the arange them by rep.

Didn't I say you could do that back on 1/24? The problem is that you don't see any numbers, so you don't know if you're only one point above somebody or 20 points.

I did forget to come back here and post what I assume are the default values, though. Here they are:

1. User is infamous around these parts -999999
2. User can only hope to improve -50
3. User has a little shameless behaviour in the past -10
4. User is an unknown quantity at this point 0
5. User is on a distinguished road 10
6. User will become famous soon enough 50
7. User has a spectacular aura about 150
8. User is a jewel in the rough 250
9. User is just really nice 350
10. User is a glorious beacon of light 450
11. User is a name known to all 550
12. User is a splendid one to behold 650
13. User has much to be proud of 1000
14. User has a brilliant future 1500
15. User has a reputation beyond repute 2000

Everybody starts with 10 points, and so far nobody has progressed past that level.

Originally Posted by inf3st

Mine blows

Hardly. As bpaul noted, you're actually pretty high -- 4th out of over 11,000 users isn't too shabby.

Steve

[Pony99CA]

Originally Posted by bpaul24

I am not sure the rep thing means much anyway. The only thing you can do is arrange them in the memberlist? That is kinda lame, need to add more features or something.

Reputation is kind of like feedback on eBay. For each post somebody makes, you can rate it positively or negatively (or leave it alone, of course). If somebody helps you, give their rep a boost. If somebody says something particularly insightful, give their rep a boost. If somebody helps you by pointing you to another post that helps you, give both people's reps a boost. Presumably, the higher somebody's reputation, the more helpful that person has been.

I think it's an attempt to allow ranking users based on something other than post count. (A high post count doesn't necessarily mean somebody's been helpful.) Of course, reputation could turn into a popularity contest if "popular" members get boosts and "unpopular" members take hits. Even worse, the numbers could be gamed by people agreeing to vote each other's posts higher (and, even worse, other people's posts lower).

I suggested using it with the hope that people wouldn't do those things, of course (which is why I suggested only giving negative reputation for spammers and trolls).

And, yes, it could be better. For example, I think that showing reputation counts on the Member List would be useful and encourage using it more. I also think a user should be able to see which posts have gotten positive and negative feedback and the associated comments (but not the name of the person giving the feedback, of course).

Steve

[bpaul24]

What you suggest would be sweet Steve. Any possibility to do this?
Can you rate people while surfing this forum on the Q?

[Pony99CA]

Originally Posted by bpaul24

What you suggest would be sweet Steve. Any possibility to do this?

You can already do this. See the first post in the thread to see how.

Originally Posted by bpaul24

Can you rate people while surfing this forum on the Q?

First, you aren't actually rating people directly. You're rating their posts, but you can theoretically vote on each post they've made.

As for accessing it from the Q, I have no idea. I don't do much forum reading on the Q (I'm very nearsighted and the Pocket IE font is too small even at maximum zoom). Give it a try and let us know what happens.

Steve

[inf3st]

LoL I started with 10 points and have 12 now. So i'm only that high up because steve told someone to give me points. LOL

[Pony99CA]

Originally Posted by inf3st

LoL I started with 10 points and have 12 now. So i'm only that high up because steve told someone to give me points. LOL

It's worse than that. I gave you a boost early in this thread as a test to see how it worked. People need to get in the spirit a bit more.

Steve

[bpaul24]

Originally Posted by Pony99CA

It's worse than that. I gave you a boost early in this thread as a test to see how it worked. People need to get in the spirit a bit more.

Steve

I gave both of you a boost, because as far as I can tell you two are the backbone of these forums.