Reputation Guide

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Reputation Explained


What is reputation?
Reputation is a way of showing how respected and valuable a members posts are. The more blue boxes displayed, the higher that users reputation is. The more red boxes displayed, the lower that users reputation is. By default all users start with one blue box.

Reputation is not decided by the site, but instead by it’s members. It is only affected by the number of members who give reputation to each individual member, and not my length of membership or post count.


How do I give reputation?
To give reputation to a user, you need to click on the reputation icon in the post that you are giving reputation about. The icon is located on the top-right corner of a post and looks like a block with a reputation box in it.

Once you have done this, you can add a comment to explain to the receiving user why they are receiving reputation from you.


Can reputation be negative?
The ability to give negative reputation is set by the site administrators. If this is enabled, you will see two options when you are giving reputation with buttons to choose whether the reputation is positive or negative.


How do I view my reputation?
If you enter your user control panel (userCP), at the bottom of the first page that appears will be your reputation details. This will include your actual reputation score (in points), and details of the most recent reputation given, including links to the posts concerned. If you click the title of each reputation score, it will take you to the post that you received the reputation for.


Why are there different colored blocks in my reputation history, and what do they mean?
You will see three different colored boxes in your recently received reputation. A blue box means that positive reputation has been given, a red box means that negative reputation has been given, and a grey box means that either positive or negative reputation has been given but it did not affect your overall score. This normally happens with new users as they generally do not have permission to affect others reputation until they have satisfied conditions set by the administrator.


When will my reputation clicks start affecting others?
You need to have met all of the following conditions before your reputation clicks will affect other reputation scores.

Number of posts: 50
Your reputation score: 10


What is reputation power?
Reputation power is the amount that you can affect other peoples reputation. Your reputation power is affected by the length of time you have been registered on the site, your post count, and the amount of reputation you have.

On this site your reputation power is calculated by the following method:

For every 365 days, your reputation power is increased by 1.
For every 1000 posts, your reputation power is increased by 1.
For every 100 reputation points, your reputation power is increased by 1.


How much reputation can I give out?
The amount of reputation you can give out every 24 hours is defined by the site administrators.

On this site the reputation settings are as follows:

Number of reputation clicks per day: 10
Number of users you need to give reputation to before giving to the same user again: 20


Is there a way of hiding my reputation score from others?
Everyone is privy to the same rules on this site. Therefore, all reputations are displayed, whether good or bad.


Other useful reputation information.
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