Questions about this site
- Thread starter Dr. Jones
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Relax people.
Colton was an 8 before the change when you were 9, 10 and 11.
Thanks YB for your intentionally unhelpful post, you know what I was asking.
I'm just curious about the inner workings, not as much offended someone has more rep than I do.
Jason's and my rep powers don't change (unless I do it manually), they just stay at 8. For some reason, though, I feel like we should be among the highest rep powers on the board. Therefore my basic procedure is to wait until the highest other rep powers overtake us by a bit (i.e. when someone reaches 10 or 11), then I reconfigure the rep power equation so that those individuals are at or slightly below Jason and myself. Rinse and repeat.
Right now the current formula for rep power is:
rep power = #days/130 + #posts/2500 + #reputation/300
I think the algorithm rounds after each step and then adds, rather than adding before rounding.
Right now the current formula for rep power is:
rep power = #days/130 + #posts/2500 + #reputation/300
I think the algorithm rounds after each step and then adds, rather than adding before rounding.
Okay, I brought it up so I'll ask: Why should your rep be higher than any other poster? Because you're an administrator? My previous post was mostly tongue in cheek, but with every satire, there is truth. Shouldn't rep be earned and/or lost? What does being an administrator have to do with rep? Really, I don't care. I just think it's odd that you feel the need to have the highest rep power on the board and that anytime Log or Trout or anyone passes your level, adjustments have to be made. The posters with the highest rep number have it for a reason: They have earned a good reputation on the board.
Now I'll step off my soapbox and go back to not caring. Until the next time.
Reputation should be earned or lost. However, reputation power (the ability to affect reputation) is not the same thing.
colton,
How much flexibility do you have in your equations for rep?
True. But the question remains: Why should Colton/Jason liking or not liking a post (that does not violate the rules) carry more weight than any other poster? If random factors such as being an admin give him higher rep, why don't the grunts doing the moderating/sweeping also get higher rep? How about premium members? I just don't think rep power should be determined because somebody has a title.
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Exactly. YB-- it's my rep power that I feel should be high. I don't manually set my rep at all (currently 25th highest on the board, it looks like).
One Brow said:
"rep power" you mean. ;-)
I can set the denominators in the formula to anything I want, or decide not to include any of the three terms. That's about it.
Yes, I'd do that also if there were any way to. Unfortunately as far as I have been able to tell there's no way to give a rep power bonus for anyone but admins. And it's not a bonus for admins, it's a "flat rate".
As Trout would say, beware my -8! ;-)
More seriously, for that matter why should #days on jazzfanz allow someone to carry more weight? Why should #posts? Why should #reputation? We could make it egalitarian and just give everyone a rep power of 1, would that be better? (Actually, I'm not really sure if I could do that exactly. Probably not.)
Basically, there are just a few parameters that can be tweaked: #days, #posts, #reputation, and whether or not someone is an administrator. So I'm using all four of them to determine the rep power.