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Click to Expand / Collapse  Quote originally posted by MosaicFuneral ...
Wait! I only have +1/-1 with 419Reps, but someone with: 46Reps can have +2/-1, and 105Reps gets you +7/-3???

How does this all work now, or is this over the being an ass to DW?
Yeah actually that is really confusing. Just looking around profiles i stumbled upon SoulMazer they have a +2/-1 as their rep power, even though they only have 12 rep points, 70 posts, and have only been on the site since September last year.

Thats a difference of 2 months, and yet that seems to be the thing making the difference. As Mosaic Funeral has loads more posts and tons more rep.. Just wondering how much posts are rep are actually being considered when rep power is being created if that is the case?
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Click to Expand / Collapse  Quote originally posted by jbennet ...
It has to do with post count / solved threads / time as a member too.

e.g I got 570 rep, +21/-10

vernon-dozier has like 1/4 of my post count and has only been here like a year or two - even although he has four times my [1996] rep (and we have about the same solved threads) , he only gets +8/-4).
I got 766 rep points with +16/-8 and have been here since 04. Those extra posts must count for a bit.
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I got 766 rep points with +16/-8 and have been here since 04. Those extra posts must count for a bit.
I've been here since '06 and have 2427 rep and +10/-5. But I 'only' have 2,706 posts, so I think you're right, posts count for quite a bit.

The previous calculation was something like:
1000 posts = +1 rep power
1 year membership = +1 rep power
100 rep points = +1 rep power.

My rep-power was divided by about 3, so I guess it's now something like:
1000 posts = +1 rep power
1 year membership = +1 rep power
500 rep points = +1 rep power.
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Yeah, im not so sure i like the new system. I dont see why someone as useful to daniweb as MosaicFuneral is should only have the same amount of rep power as someone who has only been here for a month.

I think it would be better back at the other system, but seeing this whole problem arose from people not wanting to bury new users i think we should just have a system where you are able to allocate just how many rep points you want to give.

So yeah, my vote is for the old system back.
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I really like the idea of the dropdown where you can select a rep amount to give/take which I believe was mentioned in AD's original thread about negative rep.
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I dont see why someone as useful to daniweb as MosaicFuneral is should only have the same amount of rep power as someone who has only been here for a month.
Do not confuse rep-power with reputation. Reputation and 'solved threads' show how useful someone has been for the community (more or less anyway). The rep-power is nothing more then the amount of rep you add to someone else's reputation. It has nothing to do with how useful/good/etc you are. You can get a monster-rep-power just by posting 100.000 posts in the posting-games forum for example.

With that said, I would also like to select how many rep I give to someone, as mentioned by a lot of people already. But I think the solution Dani made is good enough and I just don't care enough to make a big deal out of it
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Mmm, i guess in the end its only rep
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I think the Member of the Month should have the most rep power.
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