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Reputation System - Explained
User 'nhunter' asked a great question and I want to address it to everyone who takes the time to read the forum.
vBulletin, the forum software has a 'User Reputation' system built into it. It is not however, a system that I have felt the need to embrace. I can see the value of it on other forums but with the way this forum is setup, how we use it and run it, I don't see us using the 'User Reputation' system anytime soon.
That said, feel free to use it on your own to rate/rank each other, but please be careful as I'd hate to see it cause any wars between members. Too many other online forums are better at hosting that sort of atmosphere - but not here please.
Below is some information I took from the vBulletin help system about the reputation system. I did not quickly find the various icons that go along with the various reputation levels however. But this will give you a sense of how the system works.
Thanks again to nhunter for asking the question.
Jim
About User Reputations:
vBulletin's user reputation system provides a way of rating users based on the quality of their posts. Users on your forums can add or subtract reputation points from other users by clicking the reputation link in their posts. You can set restrictions on the giving and taking away of reputation points by users in your vBulletin options.
User reputations allow the users in your community to tell vBulletin which users are quality and which users are not. And in response to user feedback, vBulletin has the ability to label and reward users for the quality of their posts, as is indicated by their reputation.
You can label quality users by defining reputation levels in the User Reputation Manager. User reputation levels work very similar to user titles and user ranks in that they are an indicator of status that are displayed next to names in posts.
You can reward quality users by creating promotions on the Promotions page. Promotions are used to change a user's group memberships when they meet certain conditions, one of which can be their reputation level. Because forum permissions can be controlled with group memberships, a user's reputation in conjunction with promotions can be used to control a user's forum permissions. And so by using a combination of user reputations, promotions, and group permissions, you can enable your community to reward and punish good and bad posters on your forums.
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User 'nhunter' asked a great question and I want to address it to everyone who takes the time to read the forum.
vBulletin, the forum software has a 'User Reputation' system built into it. It is not however, a system that I have felt the need to embrace. I can see the value of it on other forums but with the way this forum is setup, how we use it and run it, I don't see us using the 'User Reputation' system anytime soon.
That said, feel free to use it on your own to rate/rank each other, but please be careful as I'd hate to see it cause any wars between members. Too many other online forums are better at hosting that sort of atmosphere - but not here please.
Below is some information I took from the vBulletin help system about the reputation system. I did not quickly find the various icons that go along with the various reputation levels however. But this will give you a sense of how the system works.
Thanks again to nhunter for asking the question.
Jim
About User Reputations:
vBulletin's user reputation system provides a way of rating users based on the quality of their posts. Users on your forums can add or subtract reputation points from other users by clicking the reputation link in their posts. You can set restrictions on the giving and taking away of reputation points by users in your vBulletin options.
User reputations allow the users in your community to tell vBulletin which users are quality and which users are not. And in response to user feedback, vBulletin has the ability to label and reward users for the quality of their posts, as is indicated by their reputation.
You can label quality users by defining reputation levels in the User Reputation Manager. User reputation levels work very similar to user titles and user ranks in that they are an indicator of status that are displayed next to names in posts.
You can reward quality users by creating promotions on the Promotions page. Promotions are used to change a user's group memberships when they meet certain conditions, one of which can be their reputation level. Because forum permissions can be controlled with group memberships, a user's reputation in conjunction with promotions can be used to control a user's forum permissions. And so by using a combination of user reputations, promotions, and group permissions, you can enable your community to reward and punish good and bad posters on your forums.
//heartlandowners.org/attachments/reputation_levels.JPG
K
Ken Washington
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I for one would hate to see this started! It would keep some people from speaking their mind for fear that someone would give them a bad rating. We already have Jim keeping the peace and I would like to say that he is doing a great job! Please don't mess with something that's not broken!
Ken
Ken
nhunter
Well-known member
I wasn't looking to start it. I was just doing some late night computing and wondered the question of all questions "what does this do?" But I whole heartedly agree the this is one of the nicest forums around due to active (weeding out the bad apples) admin, factory involvement and lots of good folks with good ideas. The everyone play nice so we can all learn something really has worked out well. Just wondering what they did. Neil
