positive rep

[GoldenMerc]

@scottish; taking the amounts on top posters over 7 days wouldnt work due to it taking into account all your posts on forum including spam and forum games i believe.

You can take that off with coding, im sure @Recursion; and all the new admin coders know that
or i'd hope they do

[xxMATTGxx]

We won't be taking it off "Top Posters". We have our own tools to calculate posts within forums where post count is enabled.

[mrwoooooooo]

Richie always has to have something to moan about, jeez get a grip youth.

[xxMATTGxx]

Have made it easier for the majority of the members but some may still have to join it manually.

[scottish]

@Samanfa; posts in spam should still count towards it, shouldn't be just for specific sections (if spam was to be ignored then as should the post a ___ threads as posts in them aren't exactly constructive or deserving of rep )

[Oleh]

Idea. Have some form of posting grand prix if you may. I don't know how many members would be in it let's say 500 for the purpose of this post. Create 20 groups. Aptly named Group 1 to Group 20. Put 25 people in each of these. Randomly selected of course, not alphabetically or anything. Then the first week of the following month, say August 1st to 7th, have a post competition and have the points the same as the f1 scoring system:

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
Points	25	18	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1

Then after the first week put the top 10 of each group into another e.g. top 10 of group 1 and 2 go into a group etc so there's 10 groups of 20. and then have another posting competition a fortnight after, with the top 10 of each group going into a group. Until there's 50. With 2 groups of 25 and then host another a fortnight later. Then place the top 10 of each into a group so there's 20 in one group. etc, The top 3 of that group get prizes e.g. 1st gets some voucher, 2nd gets some lesser value voucher etc. Then the top of the global leaderboard (as we've been awarding posters with points respective of their place in the groups) The top 3 will get prizes similar to those in the last group.

[mrwoooooooo]

rep doesnt need changing.

[Jarkie]

I didn't really see anything wrong with that thread.

Lol, I hate it when the people who worked 'hard' on getting rep get all moany once there is an easy way of getting 'rep'. Its like no one forced them to work 'hard' on getting forum 'rep' ... :rolleyes:

[Kyle]

Idea. Have some form of posting grand prix if you may. I don't know how many members would be in it let's say 500 for the purpose of this post. Create 20 groups. Aptly named Group 1 to Group 20. Put 25 people in each of these. Randomly selected of course, not alphabetically or anything. Then the first week of the following month, say August 1st to 7th, have a post competition and have the points the same as the f1 scoring system:

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
Points	25	18	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1

Then after the first week put the top 10 of each group into another e.g. top 10 of group 1 and 2 go into a group etc so there's 10 groups of 20. and then have another posting competition a fortnight after, with the top 10 of each group going into a group. Until there's 50. With 2 groups of 25 and then host another a fortnight later. Then place the top 10 of each into a group so there's 20 in one group. etc, The top 3 of that group get prizes e.g. 1st gets some voucher, 2nd gets some lesser value voucher etc. Then the top of the global leaderboard (as we've been awarding posters with points respective of their place in the groups) The top 3 will get prizes similar to those in the last group.

seems far too complicated and, again, more of a competition. the standpoint at the moment is that staff get a reward for posting a certain number of posts and normal users do no. there is already a system in place for staff that works well so changing it would be silly. I think it's a good idea to extend that generosity to all users, allowing the potential for those that don't post much to start posting a little more. obviously it isn't for everyone but even the smallest increase in posting because of it can only be a good thing.

[brandon]

I actually think a lot of the staff have been posting to try and help their department 'win' as oppose to doing it for the rep, perhaps the rep incentive for the staff posting stats could be removed first, if that has a negative effect bring it back and then I guess it would be fair and probably easiest to enable non-staff members to join a usergroup if they want to be eligible to receive rep also.