It is a visual guide to your reputation. You get points if someone feels your posting has been helpful enough to them to 'add rep' for you. The more important/powerful (in reputation and/or management terms) the person giving the rep is, the more points you get. So an admin giving you rep would be worth more than a newbie member with no postings to their name.
By the same token, you can also get negative reputation points if someone feels strongly that you are being unhelpful, disruptive or giving bad advice.
So it is really just a way of quickly measuring the reputation of the person providing an answer to a question.
happygeek
Freelance Word Punk
27,457 posts since Mar 2006
Reputation Points: 1,457
Solved Threads: 54
benefits: none
implications: post stuff that is helpful to others. The more people like what you post, the more of those little green squares you get. The opposite is true also, you can get bad rep too.
Ancient Dragon
Retired & Loving It
30,040 posts since Aug 2005
Reputation Points: 5,662
Solved Threads: 2,341
What is the color of a bad rep. (Good one is a green)
Orange. It's usually hard to come by, but I have a knack for it in heated discussions :$
I think you can also sort the member list by rep to see who has the most or least (and yes, there's a couple with negative rep) What again, if i may ask, the meaning of the stars "awarded" to some of you guys. And you know what, The queen has 10 of them!:D. What do I do to earn them.
Stars are for 1000 posts.
Infarction
Posting Virtuoso
1,580 posts since May 2006
Reputation Points: 683
Solved Threads: 53
Orange. It's usually hard to come by, but I have a knack for it in heated discussions :$
Yeah, me too.. but I'm improving..
I also earned some orange for posting C++ solution to a Java problem.. :$ of course it was unintetional.. :'(
thekashyap
Practically a Posting Shark
811 posts since Feb 2007
Reputation Points: 254
Solved Threads: 75
You know your are right:S . I have had people that were of immense benefit to me and I did not give them reps just because I do not know what to do. I suggest a little info pack for newbies that contains this info. The FAQ sectiion couldn't help in this regard.
I agree.. If more people knew about 'REP power', then more people would give rep, and therefore the rep system would be more reliable and successful.. I think it would be a great idea to send new members Daniweb rules, including how the 'rep' and posting systems work (If that doesn't happen already).. That would definitely clear up some of their obvious questions.. I know that when I was new I had no clue what rep power was either, and I had to search through the forums to find out exactly what it was.
joshSCH
Industrious Poster
4,864 posts since Jul 2005
Reputation Points: 1,315
Solved Threads: 10
Orange. It's usually hard to come by, but I have a knack for it in heated discussions
Orange? I thought they were red.
christina>you
Posting Sage
7,332 posts since Feb 2007
Reputation Points: 952
Solved Threads: 4
Red is for infractions. All my best posts are orange.
Rashakil Fol
Super Senior Demiposter
2,658 posts since Jun 2005
Reputation Points: 1,135
Solved Threads: 176
Red is for infractions. All my best posts are orange.
Oh okay.
Lol
christina>you
Posting Sage
7,332 posts since Feb 2007
Reputation Points: 952
Solved Threads: 4
Each star means 1000 posts btw.
So what does an orange rep mean then? I have quite a few, will i be banned?
jbennet
Moderator
18,523 posts since Apr 2005
Reputation Points: 1,820
Solved Threads: 599
It subtracts from your total rep (CP tell you the sum). Other than that, no biggie AFAICT
Infarction
Posting Virtuoso
1,580 posts since May 2006
Reputation Points: 683
Solved Threads: 53
Hmm. It would be cool to see if you had any bad infractions on your record but i dont suppose theres any way to see them...
jbennet
Moderator
18,523 posts since Apr 2005
Reputation Points: 1,820
Solved Threads: 599
actually there is -- go to your control panel where it shows the rep points you have received. bad rep is also shown there.
Ancient Dragon
Retired & Loving It
30,040 posts since Aug 2005
Reputation Points: 5,662
Solved Threads: 2,341
So what does an orange rep mean then? I have quite a few, will i be banned?
:D No. Only infractions can do that (unless, of course, Ms. Dani does it herself). We all can do that for you if you wish ;)
Ancient Dragon
Retired & Loving It
30,040 posts since Aug 2005
Reputation Points: 5,662
Solved Threads: 2,341
um... no thank you, i think ill take a pass on the ban ;).
jbennet
Moderator
18,523 posts since Apr 2005
Reputation Points: 1,820
Solved Threads: 599
joshSCH
Industrious Poster
4,864 posts since Jul 2005
Reputation Points: 1,315
Solved Threads: 10
