I'm curious. I have been posting here for quite a while and had built up to a couple of lines of reputation pips. This morning I noticed that all but four had disappeared. I checked my User CP to see what was going on. There are no new negative reputation posts. So what is going on. Did I accidentally offend a moderator or what?

Transward

transward (imported) wrote: Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:44 am I'm curious. I have been posting here for quite a while and had built up to a couple of lines of reputation pips. This morning I noticed that all but four had disappeared. I checked my User CP to see what was going on. There are no new negative reputation posts. So what is going on. Did I accidentally offend a moderator or what?

Transward

Not that I am aware of. Anyone giving negative reputation has to leave a comment. Admins won't go in and change rep. I did readjust the way the pips are counted several weeks ago. Some lost pips and stars, but none lost points - I simply assigned a higher value to each color pip and star. Did you gain some positive points? If so, perhaps some of the pips were converted into another star?

kristoff wrote: Mon Sep 28, 2009 12:53 pm Not that I am aware of. Anyone giving negative reputation has to leave a comment. Admins won't go in and change rep. I did readjust the way the pips are counted several weeks ago. Some lost pips and stars, but none lost points - I simply assigned a higher value to each color pip and star. Did you gain some positive points? If so, perhaps some of the pips were converted into another star?

Wow! I have been hanging around this site since the end of the last Ice Age (or was it the end of my marriage, I keep getting the two events mixed up) and I never realized that reputation pips could grow up and transition into stars.

It's probably right in front of my face (I have always suffered from the "if it had been a snake syndrome") but I just used the EA search function for "reputation", "stars", "user cp" and couldn't find it mentioned anywhere. You might want to stick the info somewhere so simple people like me don't wonder what happened to our reputation.

Transward

Stupid me. I was searching the FAQs not the entire site. I did the search and found the eqivalences for the different pips and stars. For others ignorant like myself :

No one has lost any reputation points, even though many of us HAVE lost several of the green or gold pip marks, or gold stars.

I went into the systems innards and reset some of the pip counter limits.

A dark green pip is = 250 points

a light green pip is = 500 points

a golden pip is = 1,500 points

a golden star is = 20,000 points

These values are double what they were set at before. I have also set the limits so that more of the small pips show before being converted to the next level.

I did this so that the display is a bit more compact, and as the system accumulates more points for more folks, it will provide a better display.

Again, no one has lost any points because of this.

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The way the point system is set up to work, at minimum, is as follows:

Everyone starts with +10 points for registering.

For every 120 days you are a registered member, you gain 1 point.

For each 10 posts you make, you gan an additional point.

For every 15 points you obtain from any source, you gan one extra point (15=16).

You may give a maximum of 10 reputation clicks per 24 hour period (that is, you can only add to other's rep 10 times in any continuous 24 hour period).

You must give reputation points to at least 5 different members before you may repeat points to someone previously touched by you.

Limit: You actually give NO points to anyone, even when clicking them, until you have BOTH a total of 25 points (you start with 10), AND a total of 5 posts.

Fi9nally, the more points you receive from others, the greater the value of the points you may give to others. For example, someone with 5,000 points will be able to bestow about 500 points to another.

The Nun

Transward

Thanks for pointing out this information. I knew I had seen it somewhere, but did not remember where. I have not been a member long, and hope to build up some reputation by participating, but I'm very much in the learning stage, not really qualified to give much advice!

Freddy

there are better things to think about in life than reputation points.

mine is still full right ?? ? ...ok.....phwew