couldn't we just have one point from all the newbies we help? sniff sniff...

;)

Perhaps make it so newbies can't give rep points out frequently, i.e. it has to be to different people.

Green is approval and Red is disapproval. Grey means that the person who rated your post is a new member, has very few posts, or little rep himself/herself. And therefore it hasn't affected your reputation.

So how much reputation points would you need before you'll actually start affecting other people's points?

Hey, can you put this on a "sticky thread" so it's easier for us newbies to find?

I know this is an old thread, but like someone else said earlier, why start a new one? I have a small problem I hope someone can help me with. I started a thread in the Geek forum about other message boards. I wasn't trying to knock this one - actually I really like this board. I was just courious if there were some others out there for the IT and its related fields. There wasn't anything negative about the thread... actually you can read the post if you want:
http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread10000.html
A couple of days after the thread was started someone docked me a rep point. I'm still a new member and now I look like a moron(and feel like one too) because I'm the only member with a rep of 9. There is a lot of talk on here about family... but what the hell is that all about? Being docked a point, and now looking like an idiot, leaves me pretty bitter :( . Can someone explain the point to me please?

Thanks,
Nate

PS- Under the comments section, whoever gave me a negative point left a childish remark saying, and I quote, "i dont like him"

does that make you happier?

so how on earth could someone as childish as that get enough rep points to affect yours? :(

does that make you happier?

so how on earth could someone as childish as that get enough rep points to affect yours? :(

I was trying to figure out the same thing... it just doesn't make sense. But it did make me unhappy.

PS- Under the comments section, whoever gave me a negative point left a childish remark saying, and I quote, "i dont like him"

I got some negative rep on 09-05-04 with this same remark, is someone just going around doing this to random people?

So how much reputation points would you need before you'll actually start affecting other people's points?

As soon as you have 11 you will start effecting others by one point. The more you have yourself, the more you effect others, but I have no idea what the scale is.

I have 19 and I affect others by 1 point too.

dlh6213 is right- the points system is scaled in such a way that the vote of a member who has a higher point-count carries more weight than the vote of someone with a low rep.

I don't know exactly what that scaling is myself, but I do know that for the lower range of rep points there doesn't seem to be much of a difference in the weighting. That is, someone with 22 points isn't going to have much more "clout" than someone with 16 points or so.

This discussion confuses me now .. can Dani explain clearly on what scale these rep points are based on.

Folks-

Quite honestly, getting wrapped up in this whole thing of reputation points isn't worth it. The points system is flawed, can be abused, and basically means nothing in terms of your true reputation here. This is why many support sites that used to use such a system have dropped it- the accuracy of the advice and answers you give are ultimately what will determine your reputation here.

Did we do away with the reputation points? I don't see the icon anywhere anymore. :confused:

Thank you for pointing this out. This was actually a bug I didn't pick up on, but it's fixed now. I've been making a bunch of backend changes to the forum system lately. Sorry about that!