Reputation System

[Kardan]

Well, the member with the most reputation power on the forum has 27, with the next members having 23 and 22. There's only a handful of members who are higher than 20, and nobody is nowhere near the 50 it got too before all the limits were reduced.

Even if the top 3 members all repped you, you'll only get +72 rep points, they'll need to do that another 10 (I think it's 10, times) before you can get repped again, and that has to be done around 7/8 times before you'll have another +600 rep points needed for just that one extra rep power.

Of course, if we do reduce the limits, that will only reduce the time before we need to increase the limits again, so maybe it's best to keep them as it is.

[Immenseman]

I don't think posts need changing. By changing it to 2500 I would once again hit the 20 mark and I'm sure others would too, although I'm not 100% sure about that because my post count is pretty excessive

Changing it down to 500 rather than 600 does make sense really just because 600 is a tad random and I suppose it would bring some fun back into the reputation system once again. 500 is easier than 600 and more of a "round" number if you get me.

I agree that the 1 year registered is quite fine as it is. That shouldn't be altered at all because that's spot on

I'll go back to my previous point though - if it's made too easy it'll be abused and that the one thing that really needs to change is that you have to rep 50 people before repping the same person again. Not necessary.

[Hecktix]

It's a good idea that along with what Invincible said, however the existing members have a very high amount that a change like that will make big changes to their already high reputation counts. It's a no win situation as whichever way you go it's fair one set of people but boosting it for others.

It's boosting it for people who deserve it though? Take Jake for example.. he has what 14,000 posts now? He joined around the same time I did and look at me, only 2800 - so I guess you could say Jake shows some dedication, so I think he'd deserve double the rep power - as long as it didnt affect the previous points (cause that would be stupid) and pointless rep was moderated it would make sense.

Looking at it in a Utilitarian way - you say it would be good for one set of people but just boosting rep power for the others - surely the former group is the bigger? Greatest good for the greatest number?

Idk it's only a suggestion.

@ Jake & the 50 user thing - certainly agreed.

[Kardan]

I don't think posts need changing. By changing it to 2500 I would once again hit the 20 mark and I'm sure others would too, although I'm not 100% sure about that because my post count is pretty excessive

Changing it down to 500 rather than 600 does make sense really just because 600 is a tad random and I suppose it would bring some fun back into the reputation system once again. 500 is easier than 600 and more of a "round" number if you get me.

I agree that the 1 year registered is quite fine as it is. That shouldn't be altered at all because that's spot on

I'll go back to my previous point though - if it's made too easy it'll be abused and that the one thing that really needs to change is that you have to rep 50 people before repping the same person again. Not necessary.

Is it 50 people? Not 10? I don't even know 50 people on here :x

[Immenseman]

I thought it was changed to 50 anyway. No idea if it has been changed back, maybe it has already been changed. I'm not sure.

[Kardan]

NeverSoft has the most rep power with 27, that's with the current limits of +600 Rep Points, +1 Year, +5000 Posts.

If it was changed to +500 Rep Points, +1 Year, +2500 Posts, his rep power would increase to 34.

If the +500 Rep points was changed to +300 that the thread starter suggested, NeverSofts power would jump to 50.

When people started hitting 50 rep power, the system was changed because you could gain an extra rep power in a matter of days.

So if we change it to what the thread starter suggested, we'd have to change it back straight the way.

[Hecktix]

NeverSoft has the most rep power with 27, that's with the current limits of +600 Rep Points, +1 Year, +5000 Posts.

If it was changed to +500 Rep Points, +1 Year, +2500 Posts, his rep power would increase to 34.

If the +500 Rep points was changed to +300 that the thread starter suggested, NeverSofts power would jump to 50.

When people started hitting 50 rep power, the system was changed because you could gain an extra rep power in a matter of days.

So if we change it to what the thread starter suggested, we'd have to change it back straight the way.

Agreed that 500 or maybe 400 would be a better figure than I originally stated.

Wasn't it 400 originally?

[Immenseman]

If it goes much below 500 then we'll have the original issue. 500 is the lowest it can go and I don't think posts should go much below 5000, it's rewarding the active users. 5000 is way too much for someone just to post for rep power however if it was changed to 2500 like has been suggested I wouldn't be surprised to see people post to try and get to the next 2500 primarily for an extra +1 to their power.

[Yoshimitsui]

It's boosting it for people who deserve it though? Take Jake for example.. he has what 14,000 posts now? He joined around the same time I did and look at me, only 2800 - so I guess you could say Jake shows some dedication, so I think he'd deserve double the rep power - as long as it didnt affect the previous points (cause that would be stupid) and pointless rep was moderated it would make sense.

Looking at it in a Utilitarian way - you say it would be good for one set of people but just boosting rep power for the others - surely the former group is the bigger? Greatest good for the greatest number?

Idk it's only a suggestion.

@ Jake & the 50 user thing - certainly agreed.

People do deserve it yes, and people who don't post as much and newer ones also deserve for it to be fair. However, along with the pointless repping were those who spammed, this again earns them a high rep power as the two main factors for it are how many posts you make and how much people rep you. That is where the unfair bit is in my opinion, im not against lowering it as i do think it's high, but they are the consequences that spring to mind.

[The Professor]

Haven't read the rest of the thread because I'm shattered.

Atm the reputation system gives a pretty clear indication of reputation on the forum. Because of the long member retention time this forum seems to have, the time registered and posts made and fairly indicative of how much of a presence the person is on the forum compared to other people. The number of points makes the difference between the people who post well and post badly; those who post well will have a higher reputation and therefore deserve the rep power they earn through the rep points.

In short: the system works pretty well atm and what flaws it has won't be solved by just upping everyone's numbers through changing the thresholds.