Reputation system..

[Ekcrbe]

Originally Posted by Ekcrbe

The system is actually quite flawed in its weighting, if you ask me. I went from two blocks to nine from one opinion post, because a couple people agreed with me. That doesn't make me suddenly full of good information. In fact, I have very little technical knowledge in any area relevant to CD. It's too easy to get a lot of rep quickly. There are 733 members with all ten blocks of rep, and no way to distinguish who really made a lot of good points, and who made just a couple.

Moral: It doesn't mean much.

I would like to see a diminished influence from others on one's rep (a rep that would give you two blocks only gives you one), making it harder to reach a full bar, having a max rep limit on a post, and I second the idea from elsewhere in this thread of counting stars for every time a member reaches ten blocks (two stars and three blocks counts as twenty-three blocks), but not on a yearly basis (make the rollover of ten blocks --> star immediate).

Check that, there are 664 with 11. I didn't notice the drop from 11 to 10.
507 of those with 11 have "a reputation beyond repute", the rest have "a brilliant future".

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