What's "Add to Reputation"?

[Glasstapper]

Look at the top of the post and you see four little symbols. The first one is a number, the second one is a weighing thing, the third one is "send a paper message", and the fourth one is to report a bad post.

I'm curious about the second one, the weighing thing. When you click on it, it brings you to a screen that asks you what you think of their post and you can click on if you approve or disapprove and/or leave a comment.

What does this do? I've been approving some people's posts, but I'm not sure what's happening when I do. ;)

[Lady Hobbs]

You click on that if you like what a person has to say or like the thread they have started. It's a way to rate their posts. I believe there's an award if you get enough reputation points.

PS......We are supposed to be rating other peoples post, BTW and not our own. :)

[William]

Think of a quality rating system. If you like a post by a member you can give positive rating (reputation) and if you dislike it you can give a negative rating. the totall ratings a user have gotten is displayed in all posts made by that user and servers as a kind of quality stamp for that post. If a member have a very bad/negative reputation you perhaps shouldn't trust his answer while a member that has a good reputation can be assumed to be worth listening to.

You have to spread your reputation around before you can give new rep to the same user.

does this answer your question?

[Glasstapper]

ok, so how do people know when they've had someone increase their reputation? Everyone's "rating" still says 0, but yours has a lot of green bars while most of us have the one gray bar. Is that because of post count?

I just gave a vote for Hobbs, but I don't see any difference in her rating.

[Lady Hobbs]

LOL Since William is the site manager, he can get all he wants. The rest of us have to do it the hard way. :) It probably takes a lot of points before the bar changes any so if you want to see how many it takes, just keep giving those points to me and we'll figure it out. :19:

I also rate the posts I like the best. If I can't rate them as good I won't rate them at all tho.

[Lady Hobbs]

Check this out Glasstapper.

You currently have 0 reputation points.

This is what it says for my reputation points! Man, you'd think after 850 posts I could have one measly little point!

Go in the UserGP, click on edit options and there you will see (or not see) your reputation points.

[William]

Unfortunatly not a lot of users uses this feature yet. If more people used it more people would gte points. I gave you (hobbs) a positive rating and as you can se your rep is now green.

The more rep a member got the more rep he can give.

[jeffs99dime]

glasstapper. you now have a green "block" for your reputation. thumbs2: good post. i had no idea what that icon meant either until now.

[Lady Hobbs]

Unfortunatly not a lot of users uses this feature yet. If more people used it more people would gte points. I gave you (hobbs) a positive rating and as you can se your rep is now green.

The more rep a member got the more rep he can give.

I just tried to give someone a rep point and I got a message that said I couldn't because............can't remember what it said. Something about me giving him a point before. Well, heck. Maybe he wrote two posts I liked. :)

This is cool. I went from a bad reputation to a good reputation in one night. I thought it was the other way around. LOL :19:

[Lady Hobbs]

You have to spread your reputation around before you can give new rep to the same user.

does this answer your question?

Sure does. Thanks for explaining all that.

[Ivana]

Here's an explanation from another community I belong to. They use "karma" instead of reputation, but it's the same thing, and probaly works the same- maybe an admin can verify that? (comments in () are mine).

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By giving or taking Karma ('karmalising', 'karma poking'), you can show your appreciation or disapproval of messages other members posted.

You touch someone's Karma by clicking (the scales at the top) You can give Karma or take it away, and you can even leave a Karma Comment. These are viewable in their control panel.



How it works:

1. (not applicable)
2. You cannot touch your own posts' Karma.
3. You can give or take Karma for posts only, and just once per post.
4. You can only touch Karma 50 times in a 24 hour period.
5. You cannot touch the same person's Karma until you have touched 10 others.
6. Giving Karma results in a little green box in the member's Karma Comments ('Green Karma').
7. Taking Karma away results in a little red box in the member's Karma Comments ('Red Karma').
8. Karma is counted in Points. The amount of Karma Points shows up in your user control panel, above the list of received Karma touches.
9. If you have less than 10 Karma Points or 50 posts, you cannot give Karma nor take it away. However, your good intentions and the comment are still shown, as 'Blue Karma'. Blue Karma, previously known as Grey Karma, holds no power.
10. Putting a member onto your ignore list will make their karma pokes invisible as well.



Karma Points translate into Karma Power. How much you get and can give, depends on a few things. Here is a run down:

1. Karma Power is different from Karma Points.
2. (n/a)
3. Every 90 days you are a member, you gain 1 point of Karma Power.
4. Every 1000 posts you gain 1 point of Karma Power.
5. Every 100 Karma Points you gain 1 point of Karma Power.



Counting Karma Power impact:

1. When giving Karma, people receive the same amount of Points as your Power.
2. When taking Karma away, it will deduct half of your Power from the targeted member's Points.
3. Note: Taking Karma away will also deduct 1/4 of your Power from your Points.
4. Blue Karma neither gives nor takes Power nor Points.

[Lady Hobbs]

Guess it works about the same here but I am still stumped to a degree.
It sounds as I can not give a person a rating without rating others first if I have previously rated them. That's a good feature and keeps pals from just rating each other. But it sounds as I can not give a rating as long as I have no ratings myself. Am I incorrect on that? And if I rate others, it takes away from my ratings?

My brain turned to mush here and it's not registering with me too well.

[William]

Yes, It works similarly. Can say right now if I use the exact same numbers.

Each member should start with 10 rep/karma points so as long as they don't get negative rep they can rate others.

However it is possible that all members that belonged to the old forum didn't get 10 points in the transfer process. Will look into that.