39 posts leads the reputation! Ozwinner dethroned!

[Shedhand]

It may as well all be swahili to me. :confused: I can't fathom why the rep system is needed, don't know what it means, can't work out why I have over 10,000 points, can't understand why, as a newish member of less than 6 months standing, that I rank so high at 38 or something (despite my less than auspicious start). I've read the FAQ's but still can't grasp it. Must be a Tasmanian thing. (got in before you big island buggers with that last comment).

[JDarvall]

It may as well all be swahili to me. :confused: I can't fathom why the rep system is needed, don't know what it means, can't work out why I have over 10,000 points, can't understand why, as a newish member of less than 6 months standing, that I rank so high at 38 or something (despite my less than auspicious start). I've read the FAQ's but still can't grasp it. Must be a Tasmanian thing. (got in before you big island buggers with that last comment).

It ant a Tasmanian thing, I reakon, mate. I agree with you entirely. I still don't even have a clue what any of it means either.

If some blokes got more reputation than me, does that mean I should treat him differently ? .....if not, then, what do I do with it then ?

Is it a ranking system. Uno, guys with higher reputation are mean't to be agreed with more than those with lower ? .....Cause, that doesn't fit? There'd be plenty of new guys to this forum with loads more experience in certain feilds than old members.

[ubeaut]

cyc doesn't lead the way twas a stuff up by me whilst redoing the Rep Point System. However he is high on the list and rightly so. His posts and expertise has kept these forums up and running through some major problems and has earned him much adulation and rep points.

Hopefully what I have spent most of today messing with may settle down some of the childish rubbish that has been seen over the last little while and go some way toward ending the flaming of newbies and the stacking of greens onto friends and family, etc. And don't deny it happens because the admin can see who gives who points and all the comments left. Not that we are interested. No one has bothered until recently when the children started crying.

Here is a synopsis of the new rep stuff

Default Reputation: all newbies will start with 250 rep points Unchanged

Every 30 days, users gain 1 point of reputation-altering power. Unchanged

Every 100 posts, users gain 1 point of reputation-altering power. Used to be 50

For every 1000 points of reputation, users gain 1 point of reputation-altering power. Used to be 100

A user now only has to make 1 post before his reputation hits count on others? (This is so they can hit back if flamed as has happened in the past.) Used to be 50.

User must have at least 1 reputation point for his reputation hits to count on others? Used to be 50

A user can no longer give more than 10 reputation clicks in any 24 hour period? Used to be 20

A user must now give 20 different users reputation before he/she can hit the same person again? Used to be 10

All Admin will now give and take 200 points at a time. Used to be 10 then went to 20 then same as other members which meant we had less rep power than many of the members

Moderators, (except for Oz) will give and take around 100 Al is still the user with the most rep points and for now will hand out in lots of around 150. (a drop of over 70% from before)

Moderators and Admins will only hand out rep points in accordance to the rules Using them for what they were intended and in the way intended. Would be nice if all members would do the same, but that is about as likely as me seeing world peace in my lifetime. Human nature being what it is, it just ain't gunna happen.

Most members don't realise that "Have a greenie" or "Have sent you a red" could actually be as many as 400 rep points. This can wipe out a newbie in one hit. Because of this all will have a drop in the points they send to people of at least 50% and up to 75% or even more depending on how long you have been a member.

Some of you will still be sending out 100 or more points in one hit. Use them wisely. Give them the way they were intended CLICK HERE and help the forums to grow.

Cheers - Neil

PS To stop the sniping and innuendo the rep points for admin and mods have been turned off. We don't load our own points like some of you do and even if we did we would have well and truly earned the bloody things, to anyone who honestly believes we don't earn every point we have I say............. NOTHING! You just aren't worth it.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Most members don't realise that "Have a greenie" or "Have sent you a red" could actually be as many as 400 rep points. This can wipe out a newbie in one hit. Because of this all will have a drop in the points they send to people of at least 50% and up to 75% or even more depending on how long you have been a member.

Any chance of a mod to the User CP to display our actual hitting power as well as our own rep points? People'd be more aware of just how much their reddies can hurt if they didn't have to settle down with pen, paper & calculator to work it out...

Just worked mine out both ways. A drop of around 80%! :eek: I knew I should've slung some reddies at the purple circle while they counted... if I could work out who really thought they were out thereby were actually in, that is.

[ozwinner]

Any chance of a mod to the User CP to display our actual hitting power as well as our own rep points? People'd be more aware of just how much their reddies can hurt if they didn't have to settle down with pen, paper & calculator to work it out...

200/2 x the power of Pi, minus the square root of a tree..........
Erhhhhhhmmmmm 7.3?

Al :confused:

[ss_11000]

200/2 x the power of Pi, minus the square root of a tree..........
Erhhhhhhmmmmm 7.3?

Al :confused:

i didn't no u taught maths

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

i didn't no u taught maths

Algebra 101 & Irrational numbers.

[ubeaut]

Skew - Right now yours are worth 37 points per hit yesterday 150

Al - Yesterday 560, today 150

Stirlo - Yesterday 75 today 15

[Cliff Rogers]

So that puts me somewhere between 37 & 150... better get busy Stirlo.

[ubeaut]

Clif - yesterday 265 today 88

[Grunt]

Watch out for the Cliiiiifff

[Rocker]

Pardon my ignorance/stupidity, but how do you find out how many points (as opposed to green/red marks) other people have? I ask out of idle curiosity, since I have never participated - it seems to me that the rep points system is a distraction from the main point of the BB, to share woodworking information.

Rocker

[JDarvall]

This may annoy Neil, but,,,,,,,the question for me still exists....

What does this whole rep system mean ? ..... I'd probably get into it, if uno, it was like a kinda frequent flyer system. Some kind of prize for being highly regarded.....I know, maybe you could give blokes complementry jars of Ubeaut wax every 5000 reputation points they gain. I could use a new jar soon too. ......

[DanP]

All that and I'm still 14th.

[ozwinner]

i didn't no u taught maths

Mate I teach everything, Im no good at it, but I still keep telling ppl stuff.

Al