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Originally Posted by BoyWithCape195
One more thing is, if you sort the member list by reputation, you notice that some people have made minimal posts as in not very active, but still have high rep. points. Now a days it is a "give your friends rep and enginners that are from big teams and companies" CD Something needs to be done to the reputation system, but i dont know what...
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Aha! You have come across the exact reason for the reputation system. Let me give you 3 examples:
Ken Patton, Jason Morrella, and Aidan Browne all have very high reputation points while only posting a few times. The reason why they have large reputation points is two-fold: 1. They make darn good posts. 2. The rest of us crusty veterans give them reputation points when they post because we want the rest of the CD community to LISTEN CLOSELY to them.
If there was no rep point system, then these guys would only be seen by their post count. New folks to this Forum would only see a post be one of these guys and consider it "just another CD user", but in fact they are not. Each are leaders in their fields. What we CD users are doing by giving them rep points is saying that everyone better listen to these guys.
For myself, I think that the reputation system is a bit out of hand and the points could be scaled down. Heck, I've even asked people to negtive rep me in the past (
(here) , so my care for the rep system is loose. I see it's purpose, but I don't know why people get hung up on it so much.
Andy B.