Anyone know exactly how rep works? My rep was 1 green dot and 37 0r 38 points when I checked it last week. Today I logged in and I have 5 green dots and almost 500 rep points. I checked all my posts from the whole last month and only found one that got a + rep by one person. Not that I'm complaining, but how did that multiply my rep so much?
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The person's own rep, post count, and reg date all affect how much rep they give.
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Originally Posted by Red_Raccoon
Anyone know exactly how rep works? My rep was 1 green dot and 37 0r 38 points when I checked it last week. Today I logged in and I have 5 green dots and almost 500 rep points. I checked all my posts from the whole last month and only found one that got a + rep by one person. Not that I'm complaining, but how did that multiply my rep so much?
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It could also have come from Rep given on posts prior to the ones you checked. |
Originally Posted by Red_Raccoon
Anyone know exactly how rep works? My rep was 1 green dot and 37 0r 38 points when I checked it last week. Today I logged in and I have 5 green dots and almost 500 rep points. I checked all my posts from the whole last month and only found one that got a + rep by one person. Not that I'm complaining, but how did that multiply my rep so much?
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I've had people give Rep on months old posts in months dead threads. Of course, it was someone harassing me and it was dealt with. Even though the identity of the persons leaving the comments is hidden from us, it isn't hidden from the moderators.
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Yes, but no one can give 460 rep at one shot.|
Originally Posted by Rajani Isa
The person's own rep, post count, and reg date all affect how much rep they give.
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You award a base rep of 1.
+1 for each full year since you registered on the forums.
+1 for each full 100 pts of rep you have.
+1 for each full 1,000 posts.
Note: If your rep is negative, that subtracts from how much you award, down to a minimum of zero.
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Sure they can.|
Originally Posted by Ironblade
Yes, but no one can give 460 rep at one shot.
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Using your math:
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You award a base rep of 1. +1 for each full year since you registered on the forums. +1 for each full 100 pts of rep you have. +1 for each full 1,000 posts. |
And with the way those rep farming threads go... the growth in their collective rep appears to be exponential.
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I don't know what math you use, but 4600 rep would give you only 46 rep power, not 460.
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Originally Posted by Westley
Sure they can.
Using your math: Someone could have only made a couple of posts in the Rep Farming threads... and as long as people kept giving THEM rep, once they reached 4,600 rep points they could rep someone for 460 points! And with the way those rep farming threads go... the growth in their collective rep appears to be exponential. |
I do math in Base Negative 10.... doesn't everyone?
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No. But perhaps they should. Or in base 12. Base 12 is actually quite efficient.|
Originally Posted by Westley
I do math in Base Negative 10.... doesn't everyone?
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22 + 98 = BA ; 1 / 3 = .4 ; I like it!
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Well, that may explain it.|
Originally Posted by Rajani Isa
The person's own rep, post count, and reg date all affect how much rep they give.
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The member who gave me that one + rep last week has been registered for 3 full years (nearly 4), has over 1,600 posts, and currently has 11 green bars in his rep.
So using Ironblade's formula (thanks, that's what I was looking for!) I get:
+1 base for positive rep
+3 for being a 3 year member
+1 for having 1,600 posts
That's +5. My rep jumped by about 450 points, so his rep score would have to equal 44,500 (assuming he was wholly responsible for the increase). I don't know how to check a member's actual score. Would 11 green bars = 44,500? Do people have scores that high?
Or maybe there's another explanation. I guess it's not important, just struck me as weird.
And to be fair, as one who's rep panel never stayed shut from session to session, I wouldn't of wanted to continuously see some of the remarks I got. Not that it affected me too much, because seeing it once was usually funny because they thought that they were protected by the second part of the theory and I would simply report them.
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