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I'm just asking a question here, but how often do the people here give other's rep? I just want to know because there are a lot of people with just 1 rep power and is this because people just don't want to give them rep or is it because they forget the rep button is even there? ...
I've been kinda wondering about how it works and everything too and I want to know how I can get a lot of rep power.
If you could take your time to help me out, it would be appreciated.

You can't get a lot of rep power.

I'm aware of that, but do you usually give it to people who are deserving on a regular basis?
I'm not complaining or anything but I just don't know if people would get rep if they deserve it.

I give rep as often as posts diserve it.

Usually in my case neg rep...ain't that right Phylum you little rogue you.

Rep power ≠ Rep.

Learn the difference.

I was wondering this as well... is your rep power based on how much pos/neg-rep you dish out to people?

Okay.

You start off with 1 rep power

It increases by 1 every 1000 posts
It increases by 1 every year you're a member.
It increases by 1 every 500 rep.

Ridg3 (1), you've been a member for more than a year (1), have 1000-2000 posts (1) and 500-1000 rep (1).

1+1+1+1=4

I (1) have 5000 posts (5), have been here nearly three years (2) and have 6400 rep (12).
1+5+2+12=20.

Thanks WOF and thanks Phylum. I'm all good now.

Being a member of staff also gives you +1 rep power (being admin might give you more than +1; I'm not sure).

If you're an admin you just roundhouse kick their rep to whatever you want.

Yes and no, respectively.

I only did that once and Sekto had it coming.

If I recall correctly, you set his rep to around -33,000

I was referring to Chuck Norris, actually.

And as this is my two- thousandth post my rep shold now be seven.

EDIT: Yay! WoF was right!

Skillfully done.

what does it mean when you get blue rep? is it negrep or posrep?

It's when the person who gave you rep has a rep power of zero, so it doesn't affect your rep at all, and you have no way of knowing whether they wanted to posrep or negrep you.

Well, technically you can. Whenever you leave neg-rep it always asks you to leave a comment and people most commonly leave negative comments on neg-rep, so if you see a blue rep bar with no comment or with a positive comment it means that they (most likely) pos-repped you.

Rep is so lame. I am so over it.

Yes, I'm only saying that because I have a lot of it.

I've been here less than two years and I'm in the top ten. I couldn't give a toss about getting any further.

I never thought that rep was that important, probably because over the years I have gained it very slowly and I'm not interesting enough to get it any faster. YEY FOR AVERAGE!

What about the mediocre people? :(

They're stupid.

So I have +14 rep. Does that mean people have given it to me, or I've earned it with posts or how long I've been here?

Okay, go back and read Nate's and WoF's posts again.

Then read them again.


Do you feel stupid yet?

To be fair, vBulletin's presentation of the information is confusing. If I were making message board software, I'd do it more clearly.

i wouldn't. i'd make it as complicated as possible to make myself feel clever.

You clever little shit.