Reputation System

[Alkaz]

When reporting your reputation you give the Forum Administrators the right to check through your reputation and remove ANY pointless reputation, good or bad and delete it from your total. Please remember this before using this thread.

Surely if the rep system was to be altered slightly then this point should be checked more. A couple of years ago when Nick- was administrator incharge of this, someone reported a -rep I had given them and it turned out to be pointless so nick checked my rep points going back only 30 days and removed 600+ pointless +rep points. I was quiet devistated as I took quiet a blow to my 27rep power at the time, it certainly stopped me from pointlessly repping people from then. Surely if this was to enforced more then it would combat pointless repping just to get your rep points/power up?

[Black_Apalachi]

Surely if the rep system was to be altered slightly then this point should be checked more. A couple of years ago when Nick- was administrator incharge of this, someone reported a -rep I had given them and it turned out to be pointless so nick checked my rep points going back only 30 days and removed 600+ pointless +rep points. I was quiet devistated as I took quiet a blow to my 27rep power at the time, it certainly stopped me from pointlessly repping people from then. Surely if this was to enforced more then it would combat pointless repping just to get your rep points/power up?

Hang on, your rep was checked because somebody else reported a rep they had received? i didn't know they did that. I thought they just removed any poitless rep they happened to see along side the one that was reported, rather than searching for it in either of the accounts concerned.

[--ss--]

I just scrolled down the page and i've noticed most people actually have quite high rep powers anyway lol :s

[jackass]

Who cares if peoples rep powers go up? It gives newer members more of a chance to get a higher rep power, and gives frequent members a slightly higher rep power - what's the harm in that?!

[Alkaz]

If admins had a rep power of 100 then people with 50rep power would still be pretty low compared to their total awsomness.

[Mickword]

A lot of 'older' people have posted in this thread .

[lick]

A lot of 'older' people have posted in this thread .

Great Observation

[Catzsy]

Well as an oldie I have kept out of it until now. I was opposed to the reputation changes myself buy once I understood why I could see the logic behind and the reasons which were pretty valid. It took awhile to get used to but I am happy with it as it stands now really except perhaps how long it takes to be able te rep someone again which is a tad harsh I believe. Apart from that it's fine as it is in my opinion.

[Black_Apalachi]

I just scrolled down the page and i've noticed most people actually have quite high rep powers anyway lol :s

Yeah leave rep as it is .

Who cares if peoples rep powers go up? It gives newer members more of a chance to get a higher rep power, and gives frequent members a slightly higher rep power - what's the harm in that?!

Cos people try to bribe poor Jakey .

[N!ck]

Well as far as I remember it used to be 200 rep points per rep power. It was fine as the forum was young as people didn't have loads of rep, so not much rep power. Then people started getting powers of like 15-20 and I think a group of friends stated repping eachother consistenly meaning it took only a few days to go up a rep power and not long after people started getting like 40+ rep powers meaning it only took a few reps to go up a power. (this might not be true, but it's what I thought at the time).

On the other side of it those with high rep powers are also able to make massive differences to the rep points of newer members by negative repping and it could be used as a form of bullying (I don't know if this was true, just my theorisong).

I think the system is fine as it is for now, but maybe in a few years will need altering again?