[Ken Leung]

There might be some merits to this idea that haven't been considered.

At the moment, people can get reputation points in all the forums, so, no matter how they contribute to the forum, as long as they are impressing some people, they get reputation points. The members list, when sorted by reputation, tells you the most popular posters in this forum. That alone doesn't say much about those posters. That's why I never take the reputation system seriously.

Having a separate technical forum reputation system points people to specific posters who are actively posting in the technical forums. It tells them the people they should talk to if they have questions regarding all technical aspects of this competition. For example, mentors like Joe Johnson, Andy Baker, Paul Copioli, Al Skierkiewicz would've received a bunch of technical forum reputation, because they are the best ones to ask questions to. I wouldn't want to receive questions about the dewalt gearbox, even though my reputation points shows up on the first page.


I think an easy way is to change all the technical forums to give technical reputation points, a separate reputation system if you will. In the member list, add a new technical reputation column to sort members in the amount they contribute to the technical forums.

I think you should also modify the regular reputation column to be the sum of both numbers, so it won't hurt a poster's regular reputation when everyone give them rep points inside technical forums.

These are just suggestions of course. I do understand Brandon's list is enormous. Let's just see what happens.