DM.SU's Guide to "REPUTATION" | Update: 5th Aug 2008
Hope this explanation will help you :)
Reputation Points
What's my total reputation point?
Click on User CP
http://aarinfantasy.com/forum/attach...818-usercp.jpg
Scroll down until you see Latest Reputation Received. Next to it, on the far right side, is your total reputation points point(s) total. This is not the same as your bank points.
http://aarinfantasy.com/forum/attach...-latestrep.jpg
You can also view your total reputation points in your username area when posting.
Approving or 'Thanks' users
You can approve someone by clicking on http://aarinfantasy.com/forum/images...reputation.gif (for blue or dark forum theme) or http://aarinfantasy.com/forum/images...reputation.gif (for green forum theme) in the bottom left corner of someone's post.
A window should slide open with an option to approve or disapprove and to give a comment to the user. Approving someone is saying more than a thank you and adds more reputation points to that user than 'Thanks', which is explained later on.
http://aarinfantasy.com/forum/attach...repcomment.jpg
http://aarinfantasy.com/forum/attach...-repnotice.jpg
However, your username will not show up in that person's user cp when they check. So the user receiving the approved points will not know you unless you leave your username in the comments.
http://aarinfantasy.com/forum/attach...764-thanks.jpg
The 'Thanks' button would be displayed at the bottom of the person's post, but it's only shown in some forum sections. By pressing it, it will not show your name in the person's user cp, but will show underneath the post you are thanking for.
http://aarinfantasy.com/forum/attach...70-thanks2.jpg
As shown in user control panel
http://aarinfantasy.com/forum/attach...anksusercp.jpg
TIP: You can view all the 'Thanks' and rep comments you received for your post, by clicking http://aarinfantasy.com/forum/images...reputation.gif (for blue or dark forum theme) or http://aarinfantasy.com/forum/images...reputation.gif (for green forum theme). A box should appear, displaying a list of 'Thanks' and reps. If you didn't receive any of the two, a pop-up box will display your total reputation points.
Number of points received and limitations
You get reputation points by someone approving you (number of points added will depend on the user's rep power, explained below) or pressing 'Thanks' button, which will add 1 reputation point to the total.
There is a limit to the number of people you can approve/rep someone.
http://aarinfantasy.com/forum/attach...-cannotrep.jpg
- You are only allowed to rep approve 10 users within 24 hours.
- You cannot rep approve the person twice, unless you approve/'Thanks' 5 different users.
- You can 'Thanks' as many people as you want - no limit.
- For obvious reasons, you cannot 'Thanks' or rep yourself.
If you receive a pop-error saying "Sorry, you cannot give reputation to this post," this means no-one can give reputation points in that forum section.
Reputation points given and received
http://aarinfantasy.com/forum/attach...latestrep2.jpg
In your User CP under Latest Reputation Received you will see the thread, date and comment. This will show the latest 5 approved/'Thanks' from the users.
In Latest Reputation Given you will see the latest 5 approved/'Thanks' you had given, with the option to delete. You will have 5 minutes before the 'delete' option disappears.
http://aarinfantasy.com/forum/attach...18-deleted.jpg
Finding and repping users who repped you
If the user left their name in their rep comment, but didn't reply to a thread or a post for you to rep that person back, you can search for that user by going to Members List.
On the right side, click on Search Members, type in the name of that user. When you get the results page, click on Find under Find Posts.
http://aarinfantasy.com/forum/attach...mbersearch.jpg
Click on a random post title they've posted and just rep them by clicking on the blue tick box or 'Thanks' button if it's displayed. Also you could probably mention in your comments, which topic you're praising them for.
http://aarinfantasy.com/forum/attach...bersearch2.jpg
This is just one example of repping someone back
Reputation status boxes
Depending on your total reputation points, you will get the coloured boxes (blue for default forum theme, green for forest theme) displayed under your username when you post.
http://aarinfantasy.com/forum/attach...8-reppower.jpghttp://aarinfantasy.com/forum/attach...0-repgreen.jpg
These boxes are just like status, rank symbols or a visual way to represent your contributions made to this forum and others.
You get boxes by the following...
(N.B This is different to the first post by Dai-Kun's requirements to get boxes because, I think, newly registered members get one box automatically without needing the 125 rep points. Please correct me if I'm wrong - thx :))
Using my profile for an example, I got 1275 reputation points total, so I got 5 dark coloured boxes and 3 medium coloured boxes:
+ 1 dark box for new member
+ 4 dark boxes (4 x 125 rep points = 500 rep points total)
+ 3 medium boxes (3 x 250 rep points = 750 + 500 = 1250 rep points total)
So if I'm a newly registered user, I get 1 dark coloured box automatically. I need to get an additional 125 reputation points to get another dark coloured box, until I get a total of 5 dark coloured boxes.
After that, I move on to the next level - medium coloured boxes - which I need to get 250 reputation points for each medium coloured box, until I get 5 medium coloured boxes to move to the next level etc.
You get an animated bee when you have 7000 reputation points total, and will receive additional animated bees for every 7000 reputation points.
After receiving your bee, your normal boxes will reset to the beginning. You will then receive the dark, medium and light coloured boxes like before.
So when you have 7000 reputation points, you will have a bee; normal boxes disappear and get 1 coloured box as well. You then receive an additional 150 reputation points from user(s) (total 7150). You now have 1 bee and 2 dark coloured boxes.
Note: It can vary the total amount of reputation points needed for a rep box when your total rep points goes beyond 7000+
Special Rep
For those who have received reputation 30k or more will receive special reputation icons underneath their names:
Silver: http://aarinfantasy.com/forum/images...silverstar.gif = 5 bees
Gold: http://aarinfantasy.com/forum/images...n_goldstar.gif = 5 bunnies
*Thank you gokunaruto for the info
Other reputation status boxes
http://aarinfantasy.com/forum/images...tation_off.gif - Disabled reputation: You can disable showing your reputation in public by going to User CP
http://aarinfantasy.com/forum/images...tation_red.gif - Negative reputation: When your reputation points total goes into the negative.
Rep Power
http://aarinfantasy.com/forum/attach...8-reppower.jpg
Rep Power is a user's way to affect users reputation points total.
Rep Power affecting points positively
New registered members, get 1 rep power.
In this example, I've got a Rep Power of 19.
When I approve someone (clicking the blue tick box in the top right corner) I can add 19 reputation points to that person's reputation total.
E.g Person A has 400 reputation points total. Person B has a Rep Power of 4 and approves person A. Person A receives 4 reputation points and has a reputation point total of 404.
Rep Power affecting points negatively
However, there is an option to disapprove someone, probably because of an offensive comment that is not allowed in this forum, and will remove reputation points from the person's total and there is a negative factor multipled, which is 0.5.
http://aarinfantasy.com/forum/attach...disapprove.jpg
E.g Person A has 400 reputation points total. Person B has a Rep Power of 4 and disapproves person A. From the negative factor, Person B can remove 4x0.5 = 2 points from Person A's reputation point total, which is now 398.
(N.B - I think this is how it works ^^; )
How to increase Rep Power
Increasing your Rep Power is done by the following, but only up to a maximum of 100:
- Every month after registering (so joined on 14th April, next rep will be 14th May and so on), adds 1 rep power.
- For each 100 posts you posted, adds 1 rep power.
- For ever 100 reputation points you receive, adds 1 rep power.
Just remember that you will not lose reputation points from your total reputation points when approving or 'Thanks' someone. This is different to the bank system, so don't worry when you do it
I hope this explanation was helpful and answered some of your questions :)
