Rating posters and giving them credit

[BigRed]

Damn, so I'm wasting my time trying to help the newbie scum and should be spending my time sucking up to the elite 11 blobbers then?

Thanks for taking the time out to clarify things DD, stroller, CMN, RC et al.

[obsidian]

I like Ice Maidens new avatar. The girl has turned out well.

a belated suggestion to wash your mouth out with soap, begbie

[Dalton]

^ Begbies post is 10 month old....The girl is probably married with kids now...

[sharon]

Nah... she's still single.

[November Rain]

Is that table still correct? The one with how much repo points you give with each green? Do you take the same number away with each red? Is someone (OK two someones) going to volunteer to be greened/redded by me in a scientific (555!) controlled experiment to see if the tabulated statistics are correct?

[Begbie]

Let me help you out I've just sent you a green if someone else will send you a red we'll see how it works.

[November Rain]

^ Hmmm... I was planning on doing the sending (hehehe). Anyway, it doesn't work either way unless note is taken of repo points before & after the sending (and I didn't note the points - so someone'll have to green me again )

[JuniorExPat]

So glad I worked my way through this thread, it's all crystal clear now.

JxP

[November Rain]

^ ^ A very nice member has now told me what my repo's worth, so, either that table is incorrect, or I absolutely suck at basic arithmetic...

[DrB0b]

^usercp > private messages > Compose private message

or

click on username and select Send a Private message

Why is that an effort?

[Texpat]

Ok here is a picture of the settings for reputation, hope this helps out ppls confusion.

Has there been any changes to these parameters recently? As in yesterday or today?

[dirtydog]

Yes, I believe xzyte is bug hunting.

[kingwilly]

Yes, I believe xzyte is bug hunting.

oh, I thought it was 20 a day and you needed to hit 10 others in between posters.,

turns out to be the other way around, I wonder if hits in the newbies or MPK dont count or something.

[November Rain]

^^^ Yeah, that table confuses me, Tex as from the top part I should have more repo giving power than I actually do & from the bottom, I thought the same as KW - that the 20 & the 10 were round the other way.

[spiff]

oh, I thought it was 20 a day and you needed to hit 10 others in between posters.

That makes sense.
Otherwise, how could one receive 2 repos from the same poster within minutes?

[Begbie]

oh, I thought it was 20 a day and you needed to hit 10 others in between posters.

That makes sense.
Otherwise, how could one receive 2 repos from the same poster within minutes?

We're talking about Ant here ?

I believe he has a special arrangement with CMN.

[Texpat]

All very confusing ...

[Gerbil]

I just know that some of you sad bastards have got spreadsheets with all this data entered in it to calculate the optimal time to red each other.

[Camel Toe]

1. How many rep points do you need to get 2 green blobs?

100 seems about right.

2. I can only approve or disapprove posts - not give a specific number of points - is that how it should be?

Yes...

3. What is a purple?

A person whose reputation is so low they can't dish it out as such... someone like Harry or LDMA.

That's great! Harry or LDMA, side by side.

What about that number we see on the right in CP? I take it as a sum of the repo power of a poster tallied up? Say a poster has 10,000 points, if he greens a bloke with 100 points that tally goes to ??

[spiff]

No, that's the repo-points accumulated.

For each 100, one gains 1 point of reputation-altering power - supposedly. So with 10.000 repo points, one should have 100 extra power-points.

[keda]

I just know that some of you sad bastards have got spreadsheets with all this data entered in it to calculate the optimal time to red each other.

That really would be sad, and anyone so obsessed ought to seek help immediately if not sooner.

As others have said the settings cannot be as listed if they allow a second repo to the same poster within 24 hours, and experience also suggests the daily repo quota vs spread before returning to the same customer are more likely the other way around...do 21st century computers make such elementary errors, or only if they're told to?

Also, significant disparity between earning an extra power point every 365 days and 100 points. In other words, to gain the equivalent of a single green from someone at the top end, one would need to be a member for 200 or whatever it is years. Could be the settings were configured from the lower end of a stupor.

[Boon Mee]

oh, I thought it was 20 a day and you needed to hit 10 others in between posters.

That makes sense.
Otherwise, how could one receive 2 repos from the same poster within minutes?

We're talking about Ant here ?

I believe he has a special arrangement with CMN.

No doubt...

[November Rain]

For each 100, one gains 1 point of reputation-altering power - supposedly. So with 10.000 repo points, one should have 100 extra power-points.

Yes, but that's not the case. If it were, my repos would be worth a lot more than they are (& so would Tex's & I presume, Jettie's). So, the table doesn't project repo accurately.

[ChiangMai noon]

So, the table doesn't project repo accurately.

no it doesn't and the glitch that allows jet to green tex 18 times an hour is being fixed.

[spiff]

For each 100, one gains 1 point of reputation-altering power - supposedly. So with 10.000 repo points, one should have 100 extra power-points.

Yes, but that's not the case. If it were, my repos would be worth a lot more than they are (& so would Tex's & I presume, Jettie's). So, the table doesn't project repo accurately.

That's why I said "supposedly".

I have had the theory that it is closely related to the steps at which the repo group-title changes, i.e. from "...is a splendid one to behold" to "...spends way too much time on the net" or so.