Rep points (aka Karma points) Explained.

[Doc]

Rep points .... aka Karma points.

Reputation points = your reputation here on Net Cooking Talk.
You can see what your points are in your User Control Panel (aka UCP or CP)
In there you will also see the last 6 entries by those who have given you points (or taken away points) from you.

Everyone starts out with 10 points.

Anyone can add to or take away from your reputation, unless their reputation is less than 10 points, then they cannot give you good or bad rep points (to clarify: bad rep points subtract from your total rep points, while good points add to your total points).

If a user with less than 20 posts or a user with less than 10 rep points attempts to give you rep points, the attempt will show in your UCP, like all others, but it will show as zero points, in other words no impact to your overall rep.

Everyone except the admin starts with a rep power of 1, meaning you can give or take away 1 point when you add to or take away from someone's rep.

For every 365 days you are a member you gain 1 rep power point. For every 1000 posts you gain 1 rep power point. So for example say you've now been a member for 1 year and posted 2000 times. You then have a rep power of 4. When you add or take away from another users rep you would be giving or taking away 4 rep points.

point breakdown:
1 you started with
1 you earned for 365 days of being a member
2 you earned by your total number of posts
Total = 4 That is also called your rep power.

The rep points indicate folks liking your posts or not liking them. When you see a post you like (or don't like) you click on the scales in the upper right hand corner along the top edge of the post. This will let you either agree or disagree with the post. Comments are optional but encouraged.

One last note, you cannot give rep points to any one particular member all the time. The system keeps track of who you've given to. You have to spread the points around to other users before you can return and give more to the same user. Currently that number is set to 6, but with time as we gain more active members the number will change.

[jim_slagle]

Here's the levels. You can see what level they are at by holding your mouse over the little green cylinder close to the top right corner. While it will not show the points, instead it gives the saying for that level. A new user will say he is on the distinguished road. That means he has 10 points and as he goes past 50 points the saying will change to xxx will become famous soon enough. Folks can give negative points too.

In your cp you can see your most recent points and who gave them to you.

Jim

I think this is the way Doc has it set up:

-99999 = xxx is infamous around these parts
-50 = xxx can only hope to improve
-10 = xxx has a little shameless behavior in the past
0 = xxx is an unknown quantity at this point
10 = xxx is on a distinguished road
50 = xxx will become famous soon enough
150 = xxx has a spectacular aura about
250 = xxx is a jewel in the rough
350 = xxx is just really nice
450 = xxx is a glorious beacon of light
550 = xxx is a name known to all
650 = xxx is a splendid one to behold
1000 = xxx has much to be proud of
1500 = xxx has a brilliant future
2000 = xxx has a reputation beyond repute

There's a Bronze, Silver, and Gold level above these, I don't have the points for those.

[homecook]

Thanks jim!!

Barb

[VeraBlue]

How many points to get "is a legend in his own mind" ?

[jim_slagle]

How many points to get "is a legend in his own mind" ?

That's something Doc would have to set up. You thinking of anyone in particular? :yum::yum::yum:

[leolady]

Cool beans!

[buckytom]

i once had over 4 million karma points. :sad:
woe is me...


but there is no value for :respect:, so i good with it. :smile:

[VeraBlue]

That's something Doc would have to set up. You thinking of anyone in particular? :yum::yum::yum:
Starts with G and ends with B...I'll give you three guesses, and the first two don't count.:clap:

[PieSusan]

I know for a fact that one can be told that one has given out the karma limit for a 24 hour period. I love to give it out and it happened elsewhere, so I am not surprised. To me karma was always a way to brighten someone's day and let them know I think they are grand!

[jim_slagle]

I know for a fact that one can be told that one has given out the karma limit for a 24 hour period. I love to give it out and it happened elsewhere, so I am not surprised. To me karma was always a way to brighten someone's day and let them know I think they are grand!

If doc does have a limit set I've only recently had an opportunity to test it :whistling:

[Maverick2272]

Test it now, everyone send me Karma and I will let you know how it works out!:wink:

[Miniman]

I think it is how much you give rather than recieve. So perhaps you should try giving us all some.

[jim_slagle]

Test it now, everyone send me Karma and I will let you know how it works out!:wink:

I think it is how much you give rather than recieve. So perhaps you should try giving us all some.

He knows that. :yum:

Hope no one fell for it. :bonk:

[Maverick2272]

Yup I got a couple!!! LOL

[Miniman]

Well, the comment that get when you give karma syas it all - hopefully it all come back again.

[BamsBBQ]

so what does it mean when you get a blue/grey one?lol

picture enclosed..lol

http://i41.tinypic.com/1gmwcl.jpg

[Maverick2272]

Uh, that's just the button that collapses that window.... you have to click on your own profile to see the green squares.... LOL.

[buckytom]

i got one of those too, from who else but ronjohn. does it mean the same as "i disapprove"? or negative karma from an admin?

i guess ronjohn must have been hittin' the sauce again and forgot to check approve when sending the reputation points. i'm sure of it.:unsure:

[Maverick2272]

OK, so I need to go see the doc about new glasses....

I think it is neutral karma, I almost did that a couple of times myself...

[Fisher's Mom]

Uh oh - now I'm really worried I may have given someone neutral karma. :shock: Hey, if anyone has gotten anything but positive rep points from me - please, please, please let me know so I can fix that.

[Wart]

Let me say this whole Buddy Chat/Visitor messaging, Friends list, KARMA thing is new to me.

Seems every forum I'm on has these things, I just never cared to pay attention to them or partake. Part of it is if someone is on a friends list I believe they can 'see' you even if your set to invisible (?). OTOH this site is different, I have only hinted at my political views once, I think I'm not on any stalker list. Least not here. :wink:

These things have always seemed to me to be popularity scoreboards, which means there is a contest of sorts. I look for external affirmation just like most other people, I don't put much stock in the score. I just left a site that seems all they worried about was who was kissing who, just like High School, and just like a system with the lass than mature take one step outside of permissible parameter of group think and BANG, Your gone.

But I digress.

I went to give Karma, I think. I didn't see "Karma" anywhere in the window, Nope. Oh, it's add to rep. Ok.

Give me time.

{edit}Tried reading the OP in this thread, I feel partially lobotomized. LOL{/edit}
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[Wart]

Uh oh - now I'm really worried I may have given someone neutral karma. :shock: Hey, if anyone has gotten anything but positive rep points from me - please, please, please let me know so I can fix that.

CAN one give neutral Karma in a binary system.?

[joec]

I just looked and Fisher's Mom gave me neutral but no big deal to me at all. This is really new to me too Wart and I've been on the net with forums for a long time. Didn't even notice them until just recently. I'm also never used the add friends thing nor again ever saw it before.

[homecook]

How do you give neutral rep points?? It just says "disapprove" or "approve"?? Now I'm lost. I did notice the blue/grey boxes but really didn't give it much thought.

Barb

[joec]

No idea Barb, I guess if you just click on it then it might but not really sure. I'm sure Doc or one of the moderators would know.

[jim_slagle]

No idea Barb, I guess if you just click on it then it might but not really sure. I'm sure Doc or one of the moderators would know.

Have to ask Doc. When you click to leave rep points I think the only choices are approve or disapprove of the post

Doc???????????

[Maverick2272]

Didn't he say if you had less than x Karma points and you left karma it would show your comments but not give them any points? Maybe that is why it is grey? Just a guess. It only allows approve disapprove and I always thought that was green and red.

[BamsBBQ]

Have to ask Doc. When you click to leave rep points I think the only choices are approve or disapprove of the post

Doc???????????

thats the only options i get as well...

[jim_slagle]

Didn't he say if you had less than x Karma points and you left karma it would show your comments but not give them any points? Maybe that is why it is grey? Just a guess. It only allows approve disapprove and I always thought that was green and red.

I think that is it. It says if you have less than 10 points you see the comment but don't receive points. grey would be a logical colour.

Jim

[Maverick2272]

Or maybe its blue for Yankees and gray for Rebs...

[High Cheese]

I think it's green if they're online. Mine change colors.

[Mama]

i once had over 4 million karma points. :sad:
woe is me...


but there is no value for :respect:, so i good with it. :smile:

Man Bt...are you serious? 4 MILLION? :thumb:

[Maverick2272]

Geez, I only had 1.5 million... what the heck was I doing wrong??? LOL.

[buckytom]

yeah mama, it was a lot. but you have to remember i was there for a long time, since 2004, and had 11,000 or so posts.


karma or rep points is one of those weird things where each part had more value than the sum of the whole.

[Love2"Q"]

does the negative karma show up somewhere?

[Sass Muffin]

It'll be a red dot... and those are ouchy!

[BamsBBQ]

i think we should get rid of karma points... i think they are overated..lol

i might be out of line, but in other boards i have been on, they use to have them and took them away. we found that sometimes new members were a little intimidated by all those greenies(or whatever they were on that particular board).. instead they just left the "on the road to greatness..etc etc...they also took away the post count....we all know when we have done a good job, a simple reply in a thread or something like that is plenty karma enough to me...

these are just ramblings from the mind of Bam. the views expressed here do not necessarilly make sense because of lack of caffeine, too much smoke inhaled in the 80's & 90's and too much smoke inhaled today from my smoker. please proceed with caution..lol

[Fisher's Mom]

i think we should get rid of karma points... i think they are overated..lol

i might be out of line, but in other boards i have been on, they use to have them and took them away. we found that sometimes new members were a little intimidated by all those greenies(or whatever they were on that particular board).. we all know when we have done a good job, a simple reply in a thread or something like that is plenty karma enough to me...

these are just ramblings from the mind of Bam. the views expressed here do not necessarilly make sense because of lack of caffeine, too much smoke inhaled in the 80's & 90's and too much smoke inhaled today from my smoker. please proceed with caution..lolI know what you mean, Bams. I have heard similar things from other people. I like karma because it's a nice way to give someone an attaboy or a thank you or a keep your chin up kind of thing. If we all posted those on the boards, it would make for lots of stuff to scroll past. But maybe we should consider not making such a big deal out of them anymore ie: the threads congratulating people for another greenie. That was good when we were smaller and trying to grow and encourage people to be active here. Now, maybe it's more annoying than encouraging. What does eveyone else think?

[RobsanX]

If you guys don't want your points, I'll take 'em! :brows:

[BamsBBQ]

If you guys don't want your points, I'll take 'em! :brows:

you can have all mine..lmao

[Sass Muffin]

Terry, I agree with you 100%.
It's nice to get them.. fun even, especially reading some of the karma messages.

The threads announcing who has the latest is just plain annoying.

Hell over on FF no one ever mentions reps much, unless someone posted something that blew their mind and they tell them they're giving them reps.

[Miniman]

I like karma points but I can see what you guys are talking about - it can also get competative. I sometimes have have to stop my thinking "why haven't you given me karma if you like the post that much. Maybe just kill the congrats threads on post count & greenies, so it all becomes much more low key.

On another board, I didn't even realise about the karma for a couple of years, so I don't see any problem with not making a big thing of it.