A question one can often find themselves trying to answer is about those
pesky green and red bars below peoples' names. It's also something that most
people aren't entirely certain about, and often don't quite get it right when
explaining it to people. Feel free to point out the irony of that last sentence
in the comments
.
How
do I get reputation?
Well, there are two ways:
- The Thumbs-up, thumbs-down system, which can be found below everyone else's
posts for you to add and take away reputation. Each upvote is equal to 1
reputation point. (This is currently disables on this forum. T.j)
- The built in VBulletin reputation system is next to the report button, and
is often called the "Sheriff's Badge" system. The amount of rep you can receive
depends on who gave it to you, and often the more reputation they have entitles
them to give out more reputation to you.
- The number of posts, combined with the age of your account add more
reputation points as time goes by!
Also, everyone gets
10 points to start out with, when you sign
up to the forums.
How do I lose reputation?
You lose reputation basically the opposite way of gaining it (by the first two methods
above).
- Using the thumbs-down system will remove 2 reputation points
- Using the "Sheriff's Badge" system will remove reputation points based on
the reputation of whoever is taking it away, with a higher reputation on their
part resulting in a higher loss on your part.
Any user can have their reputation modified at any time by a forum administrator.
But what about the bars?
Well, the bars are usually the confusing bit.
You'll notice that after 5 bars, the bars change shade of green/red, which you can see next to names of people with exceedingly high or low reputation on the forums.
The first bar is worth
1 point.The 2nd to 6th bars are worth
100 points each The bars beyond that are worth
200 points each For example to have 8
bars:
Code:
Bars 1-6 means 500 pointsBar 7 is 700Bar 8 is 900Bar 9 would be 1100,
As you can see from above, to have 8 bars,
you must have between 900 and 1099 reputation points, or for maths people, 900
< p < 1100.
Okay, I understand that now, but what about people with grey bars?
A grey bar means one of two things,
either that that person has
disabled reputation from
General Settings
on the User CP, or they have exactly
0 reputation points. All new
users start out with 10 points, which is why you didn't start on a grey
bar.
If reputation is disabled, you can still have your score changed,
and it is still recorded on the main User CP page, under "Latest Reputation
Received". Also, you will still see Post Thanks/Like on your profile. However,
the profile reputation tab will not be visible, and no-one will know how many
points you have.
Last Question: What about those funny titles people
get?
The little titles under people's names (like "Little Babby") are actually completely unrelated to Reputation. They are based instead on post count. I'm not gonna tell you anything about them other than you get updated to the 2nd title at 32 posts, because it's more fun to find them out yourself, like a little guessing game.
