User Reputation System

digitalpoint

Apr 1st 2004, 7:55 pm

I enabled the user reputation system for fun... So now you can see a user's reputation on the right side of their post header (it's the green dots that look like http://forums.digitalpoint.com/images/reputation/reputation_pos.gif ).

If you like (or dislike) what someone did or posted, you can affect their reputation by voting on it with the http://forums.digitalpoint.com/images/buttons/reputation.gif icon.

If you want to disallow people from seeing your reputation, you can disable it in your user control panel.

- Shawn

compar

Apr 1st 2004, 8:06 pm

Geez! That's vicious. Now I'll have to behave myself. Damn. :D

hulkster

Apr 1st 2004, 9:51 pm

I've gotten a chuckle out of the "pean/grunt/beserker" caste system for the number of posts you have made, but if I mouse over the "reputation" icon, I don't get the significance of the "distinguished road" - is there a movie/cultural reference I'm missing here.

Just curious,
alek

digitalpoint

Apr 1st 2004, 9:54 pm

They are all setup as the defaults right now, so I didn't set those ones. :) BTW, I ended up replacing "Administrator"... so boring. hehe

- Shawn

candysmith

Apr 2nd 2004, 3:23 am

Shawn you are sooo funny, giggling here about you being the Master of The Universe!

hulkster

Apr 2nd 2004, 8:07 am

How 'bout "Master of the Search Universe and Beyond!"

Yea, Administrator was kinda boring - nice touch Shawn.
alek

zez

Jun 6th 2004, 12:26 am

Shawn
Your setup has drop my reputation to 0 for making three entries in a row....

that is pretty harsh :eek:

It will take me 100years to restore it......... :confused:

schlottke

Jun 6th 2004, 12:49 pm

How exactly does this work- votes or what?

digitalpoint

Jun 6th 2004, 1:56 pm

It's built into vBulletin, for detailed info on it, check the vBulletin manual (I only say that since I know you run a forum).

disgust

Jun 6th 2004, 4:30 pm

in my cp I see "latest reputation given" but it doesn't give any details beyond that- not who gave it, not if it was positive or negative

is this normal?

is there any way to see who has the highest reputations?

digitalpoint

Jun 6th 2004, 4:32 pm

It's anonymous, so you can't see who gave it... if it's positive, it will be green, if it's negative it's red. And if the user has less than 50 posts, and can't affect your reputation either way, it's grey.

zez

Jun 7th 2004, 1:17 pm

It's built into vBulletin, for detailed info on it, check the vBulletin manual (I only say that since I know you run a forum).

Can't find vBulletin, can you please show me the right direction? :confused:

debunked

Jun 7th 2004, 1:49 pm

I think we should all give Shawn a negative vote and see what happens to him.... LOL

Maybe he would start sounding like anthony if we did that. (We dont need 2 of him though!!!)

digitalpoint

Jun 7th 2004, 1:58 pm

Can't find vBulletin, can you please show me the right direction? :confused:

www.vbulletin.com

zez

Jun 8th 2004, 1:24 pm

www.vbulletin.com

What are my chances for getting my normal reputation back and have a signature with live links?

digitalpoint

Jun 8th 2004, 1:43 pm

You can have a signature with live links already. You never *weren't* able to.

zez

Jun 8th 2004, 10:21 pm

You can have a signature with live links already. You never *weren't* able to.

Sorry for being so dumb, but how can I make my signiture show live links?
:confused:

Will.Spencer

Jun 8th 2004, 10:31 pm

Sorry for being so dumb, but how can I make my signiture show live links?
:confused:

Use BBCode, like this:

<Left Bracket>URL=http://www.YourURL.com<Right Bracket>Your Site Description<Left Bracket>/URL<Right Bracket>

Where:

<Left Bracket> is [
<Right Bracket> is ]

zez

Jun 8th 2004, 10:40 pm

Use BBCode, like this:

<Left Bracket>URL=http://www.YourURL.com<Right Bracket>Your Site Description<Left Bracket>/URL<Right Bracket>

Where:

<Left Bracket> is [
<Right Bracket> is ]

Thank you! :D

digitalpoint

Jun 8th 2004, 11:40 pm

There are complete docs on the vB codes you can use here:

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/misc.php?do=bbcode

zez

Jun 9th 2004, 2:18 pm

There are complete docs on the vB codes you can use here:

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/misc.php?do=bbcode

Thanks for the link. I will make use of the exapmles :)

compar

Jun 9th 2004, 2:42 pm

Zez,

I think your sig links are backwards. You want to make the words clickable then they act as anchor text and the SEs can use them to figure out what the page is about. So I suggests you change your sig links to look and behave like this:

Thailand Hua Hin guide (http://www.thailand-huahin.com)
Apartment for rent (http://thailandcondoapartments.thailand-huahin.com/)

Help Desk

Jun 16th 2004, 6:36 am

What a cool system. Hopefully this will keep the bickering, which I am definitely not immune to, to a minimum.

SEbasic

Jun 16th 2004, 8:43 am

It would be good if you could see which posts you gained negative PR on though...

(without having to go through each one to find out)...

digitalpoint

Jun 16th 2004, 8:47 am

You can under your User control panel (at least the five most recent reputations).

SEbasic

Jun 16th 2004, 8:53 am

huh, cool must have missed it, cheers Shawn!

<edit>

Only the last 1 for me, yet I have 11. Any Ideas?

</edit>

Help Desk

Jun 16th 2004, 9:14 am

How does one view other's reputation. Number of posts DEFINITELY isn't always a good indicator.

North Carolina SEO

Jun 16th 2004, 9:29 am

Shawn,

This reputation piece is a good idea. Kinda reminds me of eBay...
BTW, I agree with ThinkBling, number of posts may not be the best indicator. IMHO

digitalpoint

Jun 16th 2004, 9:42 am

You can't see an exact number, but you can view the memberlist, and sort it by reputation if you want.

SEbasic

Jun 16th 2004, 9:43 am

I know that, but I have had 11 comments, and only one of them is showing in my controll panel...

Shawn said I should be able to see the last 5...

(I am still green at the mo, so It can't be all bad ; )

digitalpoint

Jun 16th 2004, 9:45 am

Are you sure 11 people commented on your posts?

SEbasic

Jun 16th 2004, 9:55 am

That's what it said...

<edit>

You have 11 reputation points

</edit>

Is that right?

digitalpoint

Jun 16th 2004, 10:10 am

You start with 10 though.

vord

Jun 16th 2004, 2:15 pm

I thought I was really popular around here with my 10 reputation points.

:(

SEbasic

Jun 17th 2004, 12:37 am

Uhhhhhhhhhhhh...

That would explain it... cheers Shawn

TheHoff

Jun 24th 2004, 5:14 pm

I coded the Reptuation (Karma) system used by Jelsoft here in vB3 :D Glad to see it in use here. I've got lots of updates and additions for it since the code they used is over a year old now.

minstrel

Oct 5th 2004, 7:48 am

One question I don't see answered here:

If you go into your CP, you can see green votes, red votes, and "blue-ish" votes. I get the first two -- what does that "blue-ish" vote signify?

T0PS3O

Oct 5th 2004, 7:55 am

Good question. I was wondering the same since I now have one of each. They don't correlate with the user comments. Perhaps it's that member's reputation?

Edit: Looking at it again, I only have 5 blues. For some reason poeple went apeshit rating one post of mine, yesterday morning:

.:.PR5, PR4, PR3 Links ... 10-04-2004 09:21 AM
.:.PR5, PR4, PR3 Links ... 10-04-2004 09:05 AM
.:.PR5, PR4, PR3 Links ... 10-04-2004 08:39 AM
.:.PR5, PR4, PR3 Links ... 10-04-2004 08:27 AM
.:.PR5, PR4, PR3 Links ... 10-04-2004 08:08 AM

I think a comment should be mandatory. This isn't really useful. Now I don't know whether it was approved or not, nor do I know what those people thought of my post and I guess that this feedback is exactly what it was designed for, to self-control these communities I guess...

digitalpoint

Oct 5th 2004, 8:19 am

The blue (actually grey) means it was a vote, but they didn't have any reputation changing power.

minstrel

Oct 5th 2004, 8:24 am

Ah. That would explain it, considering which threads those votes came from... :eek:

SEbasic

Oct 5th 2004, 8:29 am

Yep... hehe :)

I think PRbot didn't like some of the things I said. ;)

minstrel

Oct 5th 2004, 8:52 am

Ahh... you got some of those, too, then :D

T0PS3O

Oct 5th 2004, 8:54 am

But I thought you can't give votes to the same person without 'spreading some around'. Looking at the timeline, he must have spread some around between us over the course of at least an hour then. I thought one of his threads was about how busy he was... Oh well, his votes are blue anyway :D Guess he wasted that time.

minstrel

Oct 5th 2004, 9:03 am

Yes, you may be right -- it doesn't really matter, actually... I just couldn't figure out what the blue/grey/pinkish-mauve-or-whatever-color-they-are buttons meant :D

schlottke

Oct 5th 2004, 12:51 pm

I got like 3 bad votes on the same post (all about PRBot)- none of them effected my rep though.. lol

T0PS3O

Oct 6th 2004, 9:54 am

See here for the current charts: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/memberlist.php?&order=asc&sort=reputation&pp=30&page=0

PRbot has to try harder to beat Anthony. I'm sure he will though!

SEbasic

Oct 6th 2004, 10:02 am

Hehe - Man, Even after that session of trying to get Anthony back to green, he's still at the bottom...

Wow - He really did enter the forum with a bang didn't he ;)

lorien1973

Oct 6th 2004, 10:54 am

Cant believe someone in Red is using atlas shrugged as their avatar. Atlas shrugged is all about getting ahead on your own hard work and doing it right; not by cheating or using anyone else.

thedude

Oct 6th 2004, 8:06 pm

I've noticed (and this is a general human behavior as well) that people usually only give someone a negative reputation if it's a post that they don't like... for example, ones that call all of us sheep! ;)

Oh, and I received a few reputation non-changers from what appears to be PRBot as well. Not surprising.

digitalpoint

Oct 6th 2004, 8:07 pm

Well then you should change that... :) Give reputation when you see a good post too (I do).

thedude

Oct 6th 2004, 8:23 pm

I have been... though only when they are witty or somehow profound & very informative. If it's someone saying "I agree" or just being silly, I don't. But the post must stand out.

I will start leaving comments when I give rate people's posts as well.

For me, negative ones will go to spam, illogical rants, and simply immoral posts. (Haven't seen any of the latter yet.)

anthonycea

Oct 8th 2004, 3:04 am

I want everyone to vote against Shawn, I want him to beat me not PR or qll, who in the hell is qll?

I really do not have time to research who these folks are, but they sure have you guys up in arms.

I just don't have time to look at that kind of crap, sorry guys, plus I could not care less about the reputation system :mad:

I am not hurt by my lack of live links here, but it does hurt DP forums and the members here.

It has zero affect on me :D

T0PS3O

Oct 8th 2004, 3:06 am

That'd be harsh Anthony... Voting away Shawn's signature rights.. Will he loose the blog link as well? If it is truly democratic then he should loose those rights just as we do :D but I can imagine the complications...

anthonycea

Oct 8th 2004, 3:10 am

So what, I can campaign against whoever I wish, if I am mad at Shawn why can't I vote him out?

If I can rail against Google, M$, GWB, why not Shawn?

joeychgo

Oct 8th 2004, 3:20 am

New Financial & Inv ... 10-04-2004 04:04 PM
Are you NAIVE? ... 10-04-2004 02:08 PM
UNLIMITED PR7,8,9 Ba ... 10-04-2004 01:32 PM
PR5, PR4, PR3 Links ... 10-04-2004 03:22 AM
PR5, PR4, PR3 Links ... 10-04-2004 03:07 AM

seems I got the same thing on the same date - someone musta been running around playin

Good question. I was wondering the same since I now have one of each. They don't correlate with the user comments. Perhaps it's that member's reputation?

Edit: Looking at it again, I only have 5 blues. For some reason poeple went apeshit rating one post of mine, yesterday morning:

.:.PR5, PR4, PR3 Links ... 10-04-2004 09:21 AM
.:.PR5, PR4, PR3 Links ... 10-04-2004 09:05 AM
.:.PR5, PR4, PR3 Links ... 10-04-2004 08:39 AM
.:.PR5, PR4, PR3 Links ... 10-04-2004 08:27 AM
.:.PR5, PR4, PR3 Links ... 10-04-2004 08:08 AM

I think a comment should be mandatory. This isn't really useful. Now I don't know whether it was approved or not, nor do I know what those people thought of my post and I guess that this feedback is exactly what it was designed for, to self-control these communities I guess...

T0PS3O

Oct 8th 2004, 3:28 am

It couldn't have been a bot could it?

schlottke

Oct 8th 2004, 4:03 am

They are blue-grey right? not green or red. Im not sure what they are though..

SEbasic

Oct 8th 2004, 4:07 am

Grey means that whoever cast the vote, doesn't yet have voting privileges (Too few posts/too low rep)...

thedude

Oct 8th 2004, 5:30 am

Yup, I got two of those... and considering the threads they were in, it wasn't difficult for me to figure out who gave those non-changers to me. *cough*PR*cough*

Oh, and you could give Shawn negative reputation, but he also has access to the levels in the vBulletin administrative control panel, and could adjust them as needed. Of course, he's moral and I don't think that he actually would--but the option exists! :)

digitalpoint

Oct 8th 2004, 9:11 am

I've got a couple negative hits before, but you are right, I don't change it. There are 13 users with higher total reputation than me. Oh well. :) No one gives me crap! hehe

mykoleary

Oct 10th 2004, 10:49 am

Well then you should change that... :) Give reputation when you see a good post too (I do).
I know that being under 50 posts, my reputation votes don't count, but if I vote now, will they be retroactive once I hit 50 posts (a la the revenue sharing method...)?