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    Quote Originally Posted by straycat264 View Post
    Heh. A negative rep power could be pretty amusing... people lose rep because you liked their posts
    We had a couple of people with negative rep, didn't we - don't think their power went below zero though, no doubt for that very reason of course

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sparkles View Post
    Moderators still give 10, I think...
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    Uh huh. Vastly over-rated!
    Yep, I think I must of been
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lory View Post
    Yep, I think I must of been
    I'm sorry. I didn't mean you. Just the others!

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheTramp View Post
    Good job that no-one actually takes the rep system to actually be worth anything, right?
    I looked at my points total mainly to see if it had gone up (or down I suppose, though it never did that til this week) to see if anyone had repped me - because I wanted to know who, for what post, and read any comments. Don't need to do that now it tells me if and how many new rep comments I have.

    So the total points don't really matter and whether someone has repped me with 1 or 5 points doesn't really matter either. Its the fact that they've hit the rep button to share a comment about something I've posted, that's what I like about the rep system.

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    I'm very confused.....

    In the last week or so, my rep has gone from 5 to 3 to 4 back down to 3 again.... Please Franck, can you explain what you're doing??

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    What a hoot this thread has been!

    Especially as I just noticed my rep power decrease - I can now wipe my brow with a phew cos I'm not alone.

    Group hug anyone?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Piglet View Post
    Group hug anyone?
    Sounds good to me.

    I give up, I just can't figure out the new formula.
    • It's definitely "0 power if you have less than 10 posts"
    • It's definitely "+1 power if you have 10 or more posts"
    • It also seems* to be "+1 power for every 2 years membership"
    • And there's some sort of relationship between "every X posts" and "every Y rep" - for pretty large values of X and Y - but I can't figure out what that relationship is**


    * As people who've been members for 4 years, but not posted much, have power 3.
    ** As nothing seems to explain Under Par ( )...

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    Quote Originally Posted by DavidJames View Post
    [*]And there's some sort of relationship between "every X posts" and "every Y rep" - for pretty large values of X and Y - but I can't figure out what that relationship is**
    Surely the extra point/s is to show how much Franck loves us?

    Franck you wanna do some combs this coming weekend?

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    what I can't figure out .. is the relationship between Rep power and green boxes. I have 6

    (and what the difference is .. if any.. between light and dark green boxes?)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Beowulf1970 View Post
    what I can't figure out .. is the relationship between Rep power and green boxes. I have 6

    (and what the difference is .. if any.. between light and dark green boxes?)
    The green boxes are an indicator of your rep - not your rep power. You start with one dark green, they increase to five, then the following ones are light green. I don't know if there's a third colour - if there is, no one has enough rep to have earnt one.

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    And I worked so hard for my second rep point

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    My rep power has dropped to 1 it used to be 3 - what's happened? Has DJ finally triumphed on the rep reset thingie? Or was that to re-set the rep count?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Icey View Post
    My rep power has dropped to 1 it used to be 3 - what's happened? Has DJ finally triumphed on the rep reset thingie? Or was that to re-set the rep count?
    I was thinking about this whole area over the past few days, and I think the "power-down" is a good thing - it slows down the whole rep inflation thing.

    However, it's unfair to those new starters, who didn't get their hyper-inflated scores based on the old system.

    So yes, I still think a rep reset / deflation would be useful. Something like "current score / 10" would seem about right to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DavidJames View Post
    Something like "current score / 10" would seem about right to me.
    That would be exactly the same as leaving the rep where it is and giving everyone 10 times the power.

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    I think a better idea would be reducing everyone's rep to no more than 100. Those below don't lose out, those above get a rep of 100.
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    Re: Rep Power?

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidJames View Post
    I give up, I just can't figure out the new formula.
    Seems to me, it's a bit like the Ultimate Question / Ultimate Answer problem in HitchHikers Guide.

    If anyone can figure out the new formula, and get it completely right, it will vanish, and be replaced by a different, even-harder-to-explain forumula.

    It's not Franck's doing - it's a Forum Feature (TM)

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    Quote Originally Posted by El Salsero Gringo View Post
    That would be exactly the same as leaving the rep where it is and giving everyone 10 times the power.
    You could say that about any deflation exercise, but it still happens. It's a question of perception, not of mathematical relationships.

    Technically, the best way to re-calculate rep scores would be to recalculate everyone's scores, using the new rep levels for people for the rep they've received in the past - "backdating the rep level changes", basically. Which would probably reduce most rep levels by at least 50%.

    But it'd be a nightmare to implement I imagine.

    Quote Originally Posted by straycat264 View Post
    Seems to me, it's a bit like the Ultimate Question / Ultimate Answer problem in HitchHikers Guide.
    I think you're right. I just noticed CeeCee has power 2, and that's kicked my attempt at a formula into the bin again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ducasi View Post
    I think a better idea would be reducing everyone's rep to no more than 100. Those below don't lose out, those above get a rep of 100.
    If rep has to be reduced (which I can understand it might as it does seem to get out of control periodically) it would be nice if it could be reduced *in proportion* with what you already have ie. everyone's rep is (for example) halved (unless that takes you below 10 points and then you go back to the 10 you had originally). The last rep re-set wasn't good in this respect...

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    Quote Originally Posted by DavidJames View Post
    Sounds good to me.

    I give up, I just can't figure out the new formula.
    • It's definitely "0 power if you have less than 10 posts"
    • It's definitely "+1 power if you have 10 or more posts"
    • It also seems* to be "+1 power for every 2 years membership"
    • And there's some sort of relationship between "every X posts" and "every Y rep" - for pretty large values of X and Y - but I can't figure out what that relationship is**


    * As people who've been members for 4 years, but not posted much, have power 3.
    ** As nothing seems to explain Under Par ( )...
    Don't know if this helps your workings but I have just hit 4000 posts and my rep power went up to 4

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tazmanian Devil View Post
    Don't know if this helps your workings but I have just hit 4000 posts and my rep power went up to 4
    And my rep power has just dropped to 3 (oh, and I lost a rep point too.)

    Congratulations on 4,000 posts though Taz!
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