Reputation Feature

[Scott D]

is it good or bad that he gets all the credit for that?

well you were feigning semi-innocence from the first day....doleo never did

[yermom]

heh, it's kinda like how Panz gets blamed for crashing the board back in the day

[jeremy885]

This new spek thing sucks. I used to be able to neg a newb to oblivion, but when I negged Cack5, he only had a total of 2 red dots.

[StoopTroup]

Wait till I hit him.

[Sooner_Bob]

maybe people with negative reputation should have a higher flood control time

you know, like 24 hours

excellent idea

[Sooner_Bob]

I wonder when Dan Brown is gonna write a book about spek?

Oh, and I do believe I signed up in July of 2001.

[GDC]

December 1999?

[yermom]

i don't remember really, sometime in 2001 or 2002 i think

i lurked for a long time...

i remember not really knowing what the IT was on the old board, and Panz starting on Chrissy Farks

[Scott D]

Bumping this to ask when Operation: Anti-Spam will begin.

[yermom]

you don't like my crazy1881 trolls?

[dolemitesooner]

**** you guys It was his idea

[yermom]

i don't even remember who's idea it was

[SelmaBamaFan]

I started up the January before our first game.... 2002 was it?

I shoulda came to the SF.com tailgate for that game, but I was too hung over to do anything... much.

[slickdawg]

So are they ever gonna make our spekkers back like they were?

[GottaHavePride]

I think that's a no.

[Sooner_Bob]

So I'm gonna be stuck at just under 9 mill for my spek total forever??

[StoopTroup]

Things were fine around here until the Husker admin in the SO.

[dolemitesooner]

i don't even remember who's idea it was

I'll help you



YOURS BITCHJ

[OU4LIFE]

I noticed at least one thread about it on the SO.

Right now it's being tweaked so that it can actually be a useful feature on the board. At some point, it began being abused and right now, it's not really even useful other than sending a short message in lieu of a PM. The reputation points themselves have become meaningless.

There's a feature on the board that allows us to lock out noobs from starting a thread until they reach a certain reputation level and/or have a certain number of posts. This will almost eliminate spam threads, and will also allow noobs with good attitudes to advance.

Right now, we're playing with the calculations so that it becomes more in line with the way it was designed to be used. The default setting (and one that you can't change without digging deep into the php code) is that you get one green bar for every 100 points of reputation. We had folks that were able to give out 500 x that with one hit.

It's my opinion, that longevity and even total posts should have more of an impact than two new guys getting into a circle spekFest and jumping into the top 10 of reputation.

Right now, it's set so that you can give out 15 per day and can't hit the same person again until you give out 15 others. The calculation has also been changed to put more weight on #of posts and time on the board than on total amount of reputation that you have.

This shouldn't reduce drastically the amount that you can receive as I don't think most folks give out 15 per day anyway, but it will reduce the amount you can receive from any one person.

It's possible that the whole thing will need to start over at zero due to the inflated numbers that most folks have. Especially since it will put new people at a disadvantage as far as never ever being able to pass anyone on the ranking scale.

Your thoughts?

The goal here isn't to be mean, but simply to make the feature mean something and even use it as a way to make the board better for everyone.

I find your spek rating of "Beano's Fourth Chin hates Alabama more than Beano" to be redundant.

[GottaHavePride]

I find your spek rating of "Beano's Fourth Chin hates Alabama more than Beano" to be redundant.

Maybe he hates Alabama more than he hates himself. Then it would be accurate.