New Reputation System

[Alcar]

Reputation has been enabled. Use it well, biatchs.

Alcar...

[Bullet Magnet]

This will either be a great success or a colossal failure. There is no middle ground here on OWF.


Fun times...

[T-nex]

Wow cool... But. The star-system didn't really get changed, did it?

[skillya_glowi]

What does it do exactly?

[Alcar]

Wow cool... But. The star-system didn't really get changed, did it?

No, it didn't. That might happen later if we can find a nice equation to produce a good system of stars.

Alcar...

[Strike Witch]

I am on a distinguished road?

How do we make it change?

[Bullet Magnet]

Alcar, perhaps you could use your immeasurable wit to come up with new descriptions for each level of reputation more suitable for this particular audience. And you know what I mean by that...

[dripik]

I feel a stickied FAQ sort of thread coming up about this new system... At first, I thought that the little green box is a new version of the Offline/Online icon.

I guess people will mostly use the Rep function when they see a particularly hilarious/wierd/shocking/etc post, so things might liven up a bit from now on. Or the forum shall be flooded with posts including second rate attempts at humour in the hope of gaining more Rep points.

[dripik]

Titles as in the 'distinguished road' kind of stuff, or maybe replacing the old OW-related titles and custom titles with these Rep-related rankings?

As a sidenote, I think it would be reasonable to disable repping our own posts.

[Mojo]

How about we just give me all the stars, so you all can bow down, and serve your true master?

Alcar, I challenge you for a game of wits, strength, speed and queerness!

You might win one of them, but I shall be victorious!


Anyways, I can just ruin Hobos rep now? Cool!

EDIT: Ooh, was that you Hobo, who gave me a red card? :P

[Hobo]

Titles as in the 'distinguished road' kind of stuff, or maybe replacing the old OW-related titles and custom titles with these Rep-related rankings?

As a sidenote, I think it would be reasonable to disable repping our own posts.

We already cannot rep our own posts

[Mojo]

Only see what others repped for us :P.

[dripik]

Oh, I see it now. -1 Rep to conscience which prevented me from clicking.

By the way, is 10 the basic Rep point amount for everyone?

[Alcar]

Perhaps stars could reflect posts and titles could reflect reputation?

Unfortunately, both stars and titles can only be based off of minimum posts.

Not a bad idea! +1 for Nate!

(Thats how it should be used, see children?)

Sort of. Reputation-giving-power increases or decreases according to a long list of options. I've currently on 10. I believe you are on 9, the same with Hobo.

Now, as for the levels, I've attached the list so you can see what they are at the moment, and whether they should be changed. Ideas would be great!

Alcar...

[Laser]

-9999 rep?

would you have to a mixture of Hobo,Super Munch, Abe Is Now!,me,Patrick Vykers and Mathe9r to get that much?

[Bullet Magnet]

You forgot Lord Clutcher.

[Mojo]

Methinks Codeathmawk should be rewarded with a -9999.

[Wil]

Urgh. Me no likey. I hope this either works well and I grow to like it, or it fails and we need never worry about it again.

[Slaveless]

Urgh. Me no likey. I hope this either works well and I grow to like it, or it fails and we need never worry about it again.

Same could be said about OddChat, but what do you know.

Interesting stuff here. Although, I want to know how this will alter life at OWF. This whole thread was created just to alter the star system. Is it possible that after a number of reputation gain, we gain an extra star, sort of like how the post count did that orginally? Like, after +30, we get an extra star and +70 we get another, and so on.

[Alcar]

Is it possible that after a number of reputation gain, we gain an extra star, sort of like how the post count did that orginally? Like, after +30, we get an extra star and +70 we get another, and so on.

As I've already stated, stars (ranks) as well as titles are based off posts. Nothing but posts.

Reputation only effects usergroup promotion - but that is something we don't use here.

Alcar...

[Slaveless]

Sorry, didn't read that. If that is the case, I guess we can just see how this turns out, like what Max said.

[Hobo]

-9999 rep?

would you have to a mixture of Hobo,Super Munch, Abe Is Now!,me,Patrick Vykers and Mathe9r to get that much?

You were saying?

EDIT: Peter changed mine back. That knave!

[T-nex]

Maybe this is going a bit too much into details, but it could be fun if you changed the rep-"titles" to something oddworld related. Or changed the graphics for the ... green boxes.

[Wil]

it could be fun if you changed the rep-"titles" to something oddworld related.

Agreed. If user ranks are Oddworld‐based, so should the rep titles. By the way, where are users’ rep titles displayed? Where can we view all the post ratings for a particular user?

you could have you oddworld stars for posts in the regular purple, and the amount of years you've spent on the forums would be shown with say green oddworld stars

I know you’re just giving an example, but the colour of the W part of the OWI symbols already changes according to staff rank and status as an Oddworld Inhabitant.

As I've already stated, stars (ranks) as well as titles are based off posts. Nothing but posts.

If stars are only based on posts, how can their function even be changed?

[Salamander]

I've been to another forum where they have rep, it's better implemented there (obviously, they've had it longer), but the one noticable thing is that we don't have numbers. How can you really tell the difference between yourself and another member if you don't have a number? What I mean by a number is like in the following: Salamander is on a distinguished road (X). The X represents your rep as a figure.

[Wil]

Haha, my rep power is greater than Alc’s.

[Salamander]

Would rep power be how much rep you can give, or something like that?

[Havoc]

I'd like to know that...

[Wil]

That would be my guess. Is there any way to delete the rep you give a post? I gave negative rep to Cream, who is new, mostly just to test how rep works, and his rep plummeted.

Also, could someone with the power split this thread so we have one dedicated to reputation, and another dedicated to stars? I think it would b appropriate now that rep has actually been activated.

[mudling]

Wait, so rep power is the new system? Only just noticed it, so I assume it's new and searching won't help, so how does it work?
Haha, I would like to know since I'm still on 0.