Yes: back to 10 for everyone, effective Jan 1st
No: it's fine as it is, and Franck's got enough on his plate already
Don't care: you spend too much time worrying about this
Yes: re-set DavidJames' rep only, see how he likes it
Clicky-clicky, me likey...
I wouldn't be opposed to a rep re-set either. It's rather inflated and meaningless really. Nice to get comments about posts but the actuall score means nothing really.
If there has to be rep at all (still dont see a need for it) wouldnt it be more accurate if the rep was calculated as a procentage of the amount of posts the individual had made?
The procentage could then equate to one of 5 levels of rep.......
Not for everybody- posts are counted since you joined the forum, but rep is only counted since the last rep reset. There wasn't always a rep system either, so any posts I made in 2003, for instance, have no realistic prospect of being "repped".
My favourite suggestion (can't remember who made it) is to have a system where rep "decays" so the most recent posts count most.
You could do really complex stuff with "half-life" rules but a simple rule would be to only look back at the last 6 months (on a rolling basis).
So for instance if you counted "rep points in the last 6 months" (and if you wanted a percentage, "posts made in the last 6 months" as a denominator) then you could have a more realistic count of who's contributed recently.
I don't know if the forum software allows anything that sophisticated though.
Love dance, will travel
I don't want a rep re-set.
I'm a few days away from my 2nd rep power point and a few more rep points away from my third... So as usual I suspect as soon as I reach one of them, Franck will change everything and I'll get back to 1. So unfair
It kind of suggests how 'impotant' your contribution to the forum has been over the years to me
wether by joke, fact,help etc etc
I cant see it being meaningless ?
A decreasing rep score may create more rep tarts
I dont give much rep out but when I do I always tend to get some back
new_rep = floor(old_rep * .99 +.5) is hardly "lots of calculation". I know that Franck occasionally does a "recalc rep from scratch rather than use running totals", and it would be a little tricky to keep that consistent. But then the whole point of that recalc is to fix errors in the running totals, so if they don't match perfectly it's hardly the end of the world.
Yeah, you'd have to run it once a week, but I can't see that as much of a problem.
True. What would be nice (but is probably not simple) is a way of knowing how many posts someone has made since the last reset. Given that we have had certain posters claiming "My posts have more support that yours, because I've got 200 rep in the 3 months I've been here and you only have 2000 rep over 5 years".Whereas a re-set is simple, and it has precedent.
Are you related to Catbert by any chance?Although possibly I'm just motivated by anticipating the howls of anguish coming from people like Caro.
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