Reputation

[Glitchedup]

I believe that Reputation can be a great tool to show how active, or helpful a member is. Unfortunately, the current system contains many flaws.
One is that only people in the General section would get "repped" by mods. This generally excludes anyone else on this forum whether they be helpful or not. For an average member to rep, he or she must obtain 350 rep or so beforehand. This is a very difficult amount of rep to achieve, especially for those that do not consistently post in the General section. I believe that other sections should have this privelige as well.

Examples found in:
http://www.onrpg.com/boards/reputation-change-27192-8/
We've had many ideas in the topic, but they have been ignored and the topic has died before a single mod can express if they accept the ideas or not. Here are some ideas give by the people of onrpg:

About what you said about the Maplestory forum; since that forum is really active, I guess we should get more Moderators over there. Olaph is busy with things, and Xeno is sometimes caught up with things. I agree that this function shouldn't just be avalible to the General section, but I guess if we could get some mods to read some of the posts there, they can still give out rep. It's not like only Olaph and Xeno will be able to give them out.

It will take 250 times to rep from mods for someone to actually use the function. At the rate people get repped, this will take place over more than years. Additionally, only people in the General section will be able to access this function as only Olaph and Xenonight2 ever visit the Maplestory section, or mostly any other section. Rep should be a function all people should have access to. At a previous forum, I visited, everyone had the ability to rep and it was a function everyone enjoyed. If you agree with someone, you rep. If you dislike the person's attitude, you lower rep.
Ultimately, all people should be able to use it instead of not allowing anyone else use the function until 350 (hello, 1 rep at a time? At least lower it to 11 or something >_>)

Maybe you could tweak this rep system a little bit. For example, you could make it so that when a person reaches 1000 post count they gain repping power. But to assure that people don't spam, mods will, once that member has 1000 post count, see if they have done anything bad like spam etc, and if they haven't, they gain repping power.
So this allows those that are in sections where mods are not as active to be able to get repping power.
Of course the post count will no longer be shown when a person posts so that people won't judge by that anymore.
And if the post count part doesn't sound too good, you could check the join date. Instead of reaching 1000 post count, you could say that if someone was active, didn't spam, no warning etc, and stayed at onrpg for a certain amount of time can have repping power.

I've just came up with these ideas because someone on the pervious page or so said something about certain sections where mods do not see posters often and probably won't get repped as much.

Wel how we get rep than, to see our helpfull posts? i dont think the mods will look into every thread

A solution to our problem is letting every member rep eachother. This will make the use of it very loose and be used as more of a social purpose than as some great reward for making a mod feel good about himself.

Ultimately,

well... this is... interesting to saythe least, but I have to say, that at this rate it looks like it is bound to fail, that is my honest opinion.

[Xenonight2]

Good suggestions, all.

I try to be as active as possible in the MapleStory section, but I'm trying to get on a good schedule (going to sleep at 8, waking up at 7:30) so I'm not online when the forums are active most.

I am currently trying to give out as much rep as possible, but it IS hard because I don't look into every single thread. If you see a good post, guys, just send me a PM saying "Hey, dude, this is a good post, I think he deserves some rep," along with a link.

I also believe that 350 rep limit to be able to rep someone is a bit much. I wish it were more like 100, but hey, I'm not an admin.

I'll also be sure to post a link to this in the Staff's Corner. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

In addition, we have many plans for the rep system, but those are confidintial for the time being. However, for these ideas to work, it requires the rep-giving system to be Moderator only. Continuing, the reason we don't have the rep-giving system open to all members is because abuse. We don't want spammers going "GIVE ME REP" to gain access to these ideas we are currently working out. With the dreadful state of the maturity of this site, the average member simply can't be trusted. Hence the 350 rep part. (I'll repeat myself, it is too large of a number.)