Hi,

Due to conversations that have been going on in the Area 51 forum for quite some time, as well as in our IRC channel, I have decided to make reputation no longer count within the Coffee House category.

To quote Davey in Area 51, "reputation is meant to be a metric of the members value to the support side of the community, so a newbie can quickly see if the person answering their question is more or less likely to know what they are talking about. It was never intended to be a slap on the back thing for boosting the ego of ones friends or destroying the fragile ego of others."

As a result, I feel that disabling one's reputation power in the Coffee House is the only viable alternative towards reestablishing any type of significance to reputation.

It should be noted that the only change being made is that positive or negative reputation you receive for a Coffee House forum will not affect your reputation. As a result, it will not taint the overall rep # sitewide.

It is still possible to give reputation to Coffee House posts, comments will still show up in member profiles, and you will still be able to see all of the reputation comments handed out inline within posts. Additionally, posts within the Coffee House that receive reputation will still display a little icon indicating so and everyone will still be able to see at a glance the good posts versus the bad ones.

To reiterate, reputation handed out in the Coffee House will still be considered positive or negative, and be displayed everywhere like regular reputation, but it will have no influence on a user's rep power bar.

I think this is a happy medium because, to the best of my ability, it restores the original intention of reputation in the technical forums, while still allowing reputation to be an added-value feature in the Coffee House.

This will be a retroactive change. In other words, all members' rep power will be recalculated to not include the reputation points gained or lost in the Coffee House. The recalculation will happen over the course of this afternoon and evening.

Thank you for understanding and bearing with me.

Your hot! Seriously!

Nice idea, but a question, will our present rep recieved from the coffee house be eliminated?

Well done dani



lol

Yes, if I read this part right.

I think overall this is a good idea, seeing as the purpose of Daniweb is as technical based forum. Definitely!

Reputation you received from the Coffee House will no longer be factored into your overall Reputation Power. However, as you can see here (via your post in this thread), all posts still have their own individual rep bars and reputation does still exist in the Coffee House.

oh well i only went dowm from 624 to 224 i only have 100 less than dani now hahahahaha

what about post count? will that still count?

For real Dani. I think you are sexy a female tech is so "cool." Not to freak you out or anything

Post count is meant to be a reflection of how much you've contributed, and therefore contributions to all forums counts equally. The reputation system, however, was designed to be a metric of how knowledgeable or helpful a user is in answering technical questions, and for that reason the Coffee House reputation points no longer count towards a user's overall rep power.