Thread: In case you missed: reputation system is a go :)

You will notice a green bar underneath your profile picture.
This is as a result of Dave turning on the reputation system. You can add to someone's reputation by clicking the reputation button (looks like weighing scales)underneath that bar in the specific post for which you want to add to someone's reputation.

This partly overlaps with the thank you system. I am not 100% sure where you'd use the reputation button instead of the thanks you button.
Possibly on posts where someone shows off his skills or knowledge.

What do you guys think of the rep system, and how it compares to the thank you system?

I think it is a good addition. Suggestions:Thanks can uesd when interesting assistance or feed back is provided and reputation may be used for transactions such as follow thru and quality or when assistance with positive results is pprovided. This may porvide some defference between the two.

Also, just a heads up, the reputation function may cause issues similar to the vendors rating buysers on EBay and the sellers disbuting buyer ratings. SPR may want to research other sites that use similar system to head off any future problems. Reputation rating provided may be a matter of opinion and some may feel slandered by the results they get.

On second thought maybe resutstion be used only for transactions and mabey add a 'thanls+' for replies providing assistance with positive results. The three (thnaks, thanks+ and reputation) would measure three different values.

I don't quite understand though - okay, a reputation system, but how do you not only add to someone's reputation, but take away from it? If there's no minus, then the system doesn't really do anything, does it? (I'm not trying to be antagonistic, I'm literally asking because I'm confused).

Also, what is the rating scale (I see that some "are on a distinguished path" while others are "a jewel in the rough" while others, like yourself Bruno, have a "spectacular aura about you.") What are the thresholds? When do you get extra bars? Is there a correlation between thanks and bars? Number of posts and bars? Is it strictly those that add to your reputation that increases it?

A primer would be very helpful.

Mark

I agree with MiltonMan. bruno, can you publish the entire grading scale so we can get a top down view of what's going on here?

I like to form my opinion by reading peoples post both current and past, then come to my own conclusions. The reputation system seems like it would be biased toward prolific and popular people. I like to read odd ball and out of the box ideas. I think it would be bad to have good post dismissed or weighted differently because of a popularity ratings system.

A little time spent reading will allow a person to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Charlie

Originally Posted by spazola

I like to form my opinion by reading peoples post both current and past, then come to my own conclusions. The reputation system seems like it would be biased toward prolific and popular people. I like to read odd ball and out of the box ideas. I think it would be bad to have good post dismissed or weighted differently because of a popularity ratings system.

A little time spent reading will allow a person to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Charlie

Agreed. I'm a little leery of yet another rating system. I'd like to make my own judgment about the value of a person's post. Besides, even someone with a high rep can still be "wrong" on occasion yet his post will have higher credence. Fortunately such a post will likely generate disagreeing responses, and so the discussion will go forward. That's the way it should work. Most of what I have learned in this forum is from the give and take discussions. Of course I hold higher regard for some people's opinions over others but that's because I made my OWN opinions about whose opinion I value more.