Can't remember if I did a thread on this before or not but I can't find it.
Anyhoo the problem of repo power inflation is still with us despite the repo revamp from a few months ago.
Repo power is doubling every year as it always has been.
I do not believe that my comments in 2016 are twice as witty and ascerbic as my comments from last year so I don't think they should be earning twice as many points from the exact same posters who repo-ed me last year.
Also fokin noobs who rocked up yesterday should not be getting 2^9 = 512x as much repo for a comment as I got the day after I rocked up in 2007.
If Admin really cannot normalise repo so it is not continually inflating for no reason then there is a relatively easy workaround
Once a year (lets say on January 1st for example) Admin could manually adjust the factors in the repo power formula down by 50%
e.g. if repo power is calculated using
X*RepoScore + Y*DaysOfMembership + Z*PostCount
or whatever it is then just manually adjust the values of X, Y and Z down by 50% once a year.
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