How to: Use Member Reputation

[Light]

Here on /ggFTW we have a reputation system, which helps to recognize helpful members, and unhelpful ones. This system can be good for giving members recognition for doing good deeds or negative ones for bad deeds.
Here I will explain how and when you should use it.

Here are a few things you should know before getting started:

• You require at least 50 posts to be able to give Positive and Negative Reputation (+/- #)
• If you are under the 50 post requirement, your reputation power will be neutral (+/-0)
• If you have negative reputation, your reputation power will be neutral (+/- 0)
• You can still add or remove reputation for someone, even if they have it disabled (Blue bar)
• You can hide your current reputation after you attain 500 Posts, VIP status or Donator/Supporter status
• If someone sends you a vulgar or racist comment, you can report it to staff and we will deal with the user accordingly
• Reputation is always anonymous (However staff can view the names when necessary)

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Before giving it out, you need to think what type should I give to the post in question?
Here is a brief example of what type to give in certain situations.

Reasons to give Positive Reputation -

• If you had a question, and someone gave you the correct answer.
• If a members post helped you out in any way.
• If a member made a nice contribution. (Guides, helpful tools ect.)
• If you strongly agree with their post/opinion

Reasons to give Negative Reputation -

• Members post hijacks the thread or attempts to go off topic.
• Member post is uninformative and was not intended to help you.
• Member says a comment you find to be rude, or uncalled for.

When you decided what to provide, you will go to the left of the post, and click the reputation button -



Giving Positive Reputation -
here you would click I Approve, and type out your reason.



Giving Negative Reputation -
here you would click I Disagree, then type out your reason. It must be a good reason, or the member won't learn from their mistake!



After you click Add to Reputation, the user is notified and can see your reason in his/her UserCP.



Understanding the color in the user cp

- Positive Reputation, which gives you points based on the power of the member who provided it.

- Neutral, Does not affect your reputation level. Neutral rep will always remain neutral at all times.

- Negative Reputation, which takes away your reputation points based on the power of the member who removed it.

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How do I know my reputation power?
Sadly there is no way to simply view it, so there is math involved.

• 180 days after registration gives +1 rep.
• Every 100 posts adds +1 rep power
• Every 50 rep points adds +1 to rep power

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About the Green/Red Boxes in members profile -

By default you start out with a dim green pip, as you slowly start to gain or lose reputation, the number of pips under your name will change with it.

The more positive reputation you gain, the more green pips you obtain, and the more negative reputation you gain, the more red pips you obtain.

Positive reputation will further increase your reputation points, thus you will obtain more green ones the higher your reputation points raise.
Same rules apply for the red pips, although you will be in the negatives in reputation points (-#)

100 points is required for an additional dim pip /
200 points is required for an additional bright pip / (only after you gain 5 dim pips)
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Disabling/Hiding your Reputation -

If for any reason you wish to disable reputation simply go to the UserCP -> Edit Options and deselect the "Show your Reputation" checkbox.



Your green or red reputation will then become a black box () indicating that you have hidden/disabled your reputation.
You can still give reputation to someone who disabled it, but it won't display until the user re-enables it.

Just recheck the box to display your reputation again.
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I do hope this helps you understand the reputation system a lot better.
If you do have any questions then feel free to ask me, and I will get back to it ASAP.

Thanks for your time,
Light

[cherrypandah]

Wow, good job light, very informative

[Mysteria]

Lol rep for Guide

[Chesters]

Very nice, hopefully this will encourage more use of the system. : )

[Ciaossu]

is there anything about how many +ve or -ve points required for one bar of rep?

[Light]

It's 100 points per pip.

[Vegeance]

A reasonably concise guide, though I already knew of this

[phantastic]

I sure hope reputation power isn't based on post count, but only reputation gotten and registration time, else it's gonna be spam time :P

[khyle]

it would be nice if people starts using this system, but not to the extent of abusing it
this so far had been merely decorations Q__Q

thanks for the guide~

[LittleWing]

i've dished out a couple of negatives today, cos i ish ebil XD

but they deserved it in my honest opinion.

[eSheep]

I found it helpful and a bit ironic in the fact that I repped you.

Is there any way to check the rep that you/someone else has gotten?

[LittleWing]

Originally Posted by eSheep

I found it helpful and a bit ironic in the fact that I repped you.

Is there any way to check the rep that you/someone else has gotten?

you can check your own rep by going to user cp.
you can only see the comment tho, not who left it.

only mods? / admins can see other peoples reps and who rep'd

[Light]

Originally Posted by phantastic

I sure hope reputation power isn't based on post count, but only reputation gotten and registration time, else it's gonna be spam time :P

I have come across this question a lot recently.
And here is how it works -

• By default, a user adds 1 to their target's reputation (reputation altering power, RAP)
• For every 365 days they've been registered, their RAP increases by 1
• For every 1000 posts they have, their RAP increases by 1
• For every 100 reputation points they have, their RAP increases by 1

So if Joe has been registered 2 years, has 4000 posts, and has 300 reputation, every time Joe gives reputation to someone it will count as 10 points to the target user.
~Thanks to Noe for info

You can check your RAP by simply going to the main page MyMMOGames and it will be in the top right corner. (As you can see, mine is 3)



Hope that clears up any more questions.


Thanks for the reputations btw, it's good to see people using the system.

[Light]

Update!
Recent changes have been applied to the reputation system.

Reputation power has been changed to the fallowing new settings-

• 180 days after registration gives +1 rep. (Previously 365 Days)
• Every 100 posts adds +1 rep power (Previously 1000 Posts)
• Every 50 rep points adds +1 to rep power (Previously 100 points)

Don't forget that you can view your current reputation power as explained in the post above.
~ Light

[Gladiat]

Lol the forum won't let me give you rep XD

But thanks for the updates

[Vegeance]

Originally Posted by Light

Update!
Recent changes have been applied to the reputation system.

Reputation power has been changed to the fallowing new settings-

• 180 days after registration gives +1 rep. (Previously 365 Days)
• Every 100 posts adds +1 rep power (Previously 1000 Posts)
• Every 50 rep points adds +1 to rep power (Previously 100 points)

Don't forget that you can view your current reputation power as explained in the post above.
~ Light

This applies after the update right?

[Light]

Yes, its currently in effect.

[Globalastro]

(just a note, you spelled following wrong, just in case you would like to fix it, if not, fine by me, i, by no means, am, nor do i like, grammar police http://www.mymmogames.net/forum/583275-post14.html)

I'm not sure if its apropos for me to post a suggestion for reputations here, but.....
What about a chance to dispute a bad rep point?
Reason being, I have received one bad rep point that i feel was uncalled for. This was for my own personal opinion of something in a thread debating the topic.

Now, imagine that you had the chance to dispute that point? Maybe make it so that theres a section where users can see the posts that caused the rep point that the user would like to dispute and maybe, i dont know, vote on whether you feel it was in the right or wrong.

I think this would be a neat feature to add in order to make rep points a little more "accurate(?)" and even a little bit more fun for all users in the forums.

Granted, i dont think this would be an easy feature to add, if it is even possible. but yeah, just something to think about

[Zephy]

I like the idea too. My concern is that I don't know if there will be enough people who care over a negative rep. Some people take the negative rep as it is while others may not take it as well. I don't for the fact of how many people take it seriously. If we have enough people who actually uses this system (properly), then I will actually back up the idea.

[NoeJeko]

There will not be a system to dispute negative reputation.