Rep Inflation

[PearlWatson]

Well, I didn't realize at the time I said that that big sluggers can hit with half a punch if they want. I still haven't figured out how to give a truely "pointless" rep. Not that my reps aren't sometimes without merit. . . .

I thought you were simply prodding me to do better posting by outing my obviously stupid one. Had no relevance to my opinion of you or my friendship. In my lifetime, my worst enemies have often done me more good than my best friends. . . . so I've conditioned myself to pay attention to those who call me out for some reason and I do consider their point on its merits the best I know how. In regard to the worst enemies things it's generally been people in work situations who take up the crusade to do me in for some reason. I try to understand their reasons, I take reasonable measures to make things work better. . . . after a while they develop into predictable and reasonable folks themselves. . . .

I gave in to the impulse to attribute the negrep to you partly because I just thought it was funny when I suspected you might have done it. I hope you'll forgive and forget my gaffe.

If my wife came in here I bet she would be my worst neg repper. . . . it all comes from that high expectations thing. . . .

So the only way to prod you is to be your enemy. What is the point of being your bestest internet buddy then?

 

[LogGrad98]

The surest way to get both types of rep points is to comment about rep points. That is why this whole system is so pointless. I don't want to be some little rat in a cage trying to figure out what makes the unpredictable cheese givers happy. Screw the cheese givers. I just want to be my rebellious lovable self. I don't want to worry about the sneaky bassturds and their anonymous drive-by cheese stealing, but I'm caught in their stinky cheese game. Oh the humanity!

Cheesed. When I spread around enough cheese to other rats.

 

[babe]

The surest way to get both types of rep points is to comment about rep points. That is why this whole system is so pointless. I don't want to be some little rat in a cage trying to figure out what makes the unpredictable cheese givers happy. Screw the cheese givers. I just want to be my rebellious lovable self. I don't want to worry about the sneaky bassturds and their anonymous drive-by cheese stealing, but I'm caught in their stinky cheese game. Oh the humanity!

LG beat me to it. But I'll second his emotion.

 

[LogGrad98]

It also in some ways serves as a defacto "credibility meter". Lower points seems to imply less credibility and/or new poster. Red bar (negative point) implies very little if any credibility. Higher points implies more credibility. In no way is this definitive but I think from many of the posts I have seen that it tends in this direction.

Got this negrep for this post:

You are not credible

I don't question the veracity of this claim, other than the fact that not signing it negated any credibility this comment may have had.

 

[NUMBERICA]

If we can go back to the system where Beantown has negative rep and a red bar, I would be down.

Beantown still has a 3 rep power? Someone explain to me how this is remotely possible.

 

[colton]

I like the idea of a simple sliding scale. It goes up a little faster at first, taking more and more points to climb as your rep goes up. It shouldn't take you too long to get from 1 to 4, but it should take a bunch to get from 10 to 12. I like the current tweak though. Can you tell us what the inner workings of the system is? Is it simply point thresholds for each rep power level or what?

Basically there are three parameters: current reputation, number of posts, and number of days as a member of the board. I can weight all three individually, but that's about all I can do.

 

[LogGrad98]

Basically there are three parameters: current reputation, number of posts, and number of days as a member of the board. I can weight all three individually, but that's about all I can do.

Ahh gotcha. Well I think it would be fun to weight it so that our high rep was like 10,000. LOL

 

[babe]

Basically there are three parameters: current reputation, number of posts, and number of days as a member of the board. I can weight all three individually, but that's about all I can do.

This is an interesting disclosure. So there is more to it that just the cheese and the cheese-givers/takers.

hmmmm....... anybody game for a big runup in postcounts????

Well, as a virtual newbie with practically no post count, I guess as time goes on I'll be gaining in cheese giving power.

When you say you can weight the three parameters individually, does that mean that mathematically the three parameters each have a set of value thresholds which you can change, or are the parameters that you can tweak multipliers which multiply with the days/posts/rep with the products then subjected to a total value threshold for each rep power threshold? or does the program just mathematically compute the final value and round the result to an integer rep number?

 

[honz]

Your other account has plenty of posts on it, though.

 

[vegas]

Gonna throw this out there for discussion. Some forums don't add posts in the chit chat (general) section to a user's post count.

 

[babe]

Gonna throw this out there for discussion. Some forums don't add posts in the chit chat (general) section to a user's post count.

Some Forums have a better breakout of subforums too. We don't have a purely nonserious subforum for trivial pursuits. We have to discuss politics, religion, science, economics, philosophy and such in the General Discussion area. Other places have multiple subtopics under the Sports heading. . . . NBA, NFL, high school, college, baseball, soccer, etc. . . . and a separate subforum for entertainment as well . . . .