[Matt Adams]

Alrighty, I'm gonna throw some things out here on the topic of reputation, since this thread has digressed a bit anyway. This is going to be blunt. Sorry kids.

I think the reputation system works, but it's labeled wrong. The reputation should simply be called, "Cheif Delphi Contribution Rating." This would get rid of these crazy complains about reputations, popularity and the like. We've hashed this talk over and over.

I think the system in place works and works well. People who contribute the most worthwhile posts have the most reputation by and large. No system is perfect, this one is darn good. People who contribute worthwhile posts consistantly get reputation. To be blunt, people who don't have a high rating do not contribute frequent AND worthwhile posts. Mind you, perhaps one or the other is true, but not both.

Most of the people who complain about not having a high repuation are frequent contributors, but seldom share anything worthwhile. I wasn't around in the "good ole days" of Cheif Delphi, but from what I gather, this site was once a technical eutopia. The technical cutting edge information is still here, but a bit harder to find.

At this point in the history of CD, the number of "reputation points per green box" ratio need to be adjusted. Too many people have too many boxes. I think it might be easier to just divide all of the points by 10 and call it a day, but regardless, there are lot of people that have (or nearly have) maxed out the buttons, but are far from the oh-so-flattering title given to them. Myself included.

And that's about that.

Matt