General / Off-Topic Grinding for Elite on the forums...

The problem is that once you've hit Elite, you will find it difficult to stop.

Coming onto the forum and making vacuous comments becomes so habitual you'll find yourself posting to the most inane of threads even after you've hit your target.

It does make those long hauls a little more interesting. Though watching Blade Runner for the 12th time also hits the spot.
 
Not sure...I wandered into this forum a few years ago...and woke up recently to well...not sure what to call it.
 
Take a bit. :)

Anyhows...

Thanks for the return ;)

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I got most of my rep by having opinions.

When I got more rep for this post than anything I'd posted before I just switched it off.

If someone reps a post I generally leave a message of thanks, but if several others have posted along the lines of what I would want to say I'll just rep them rather than add to the masses. It does mean when I post on a hot topic I'm often taking the minority view, simply because others haven't posted it.
 
It does make those long hauls a little more interesting. Though watching Blade Runner for the 12th time also hits the spot.


It's an awesome film and I strangely always forget what happens in it so every time I see it, its like it's for the first time.

I guess that's the Dory Complex.
 
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Sir.Tj

The Moderator who shall not be Blamed....
Volunteer Moderator
None of this is my fault...

But iirc you hit Elite post count at 6400 posts and Elite rep I think is 5000ish.

I did have a couple of pic somewhere I'll dig them out.

Hmm might not be accurate.

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T.j said:
Users gain reputation based on how their posts are scored by other forum participants. Users with the ability to affect reputation, will give points by approving a post's content.

You can give reputation by using the rep icon at the bottom left hand side of each post.

Each bar is 100 points, when there is 5 dark green bars the next 5 bars will be bright green bars.

You can view the most recent in the settings main page, but not the full list.

The green rep points you see in your rep denote a forum member with more rep power. the grey ones are new users with a low post count/rep points. both are I approve rep points.

This was how the rep worked but it's been updated since then,.

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And the last update.

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The guilty party.

I know rep-power counts were greatly reduced here in v4 (read: set back to default). In the 3.x series, someone (an admin between 2006-2013) set Rep Power to be able to sink someones rep by up to 50 points in one hit - which isn't something that should have ever happened in the first place. I know there's a weekly recount task that happens over the weekends... it's possible that your rep got recounted along with others.

I did add a bunch of new reputation levels per 500 points. The cap is now at 6000, the previous cap at 2000. Have fun netting the rep to see the new levels. ;)

But as we all know the post count and amount of rep a forum user has grasped, grabbed and grovelled for over the years is no indication on the quality of the content they post....
 
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Sir.Tj

The Moderator who shall not be Blamed....
Volunteer Moderator
Doesn't that mean when you make Elite on the forums it becomes boring? lol.

Yes... yes it does....

(Joke)

You should have been here pre kickstarter. event he tumblweeds gave up in the end.
 
None of this is my fault...

But iirc you hit Elite post count at 6400 posts and Elite rep I think is 5000ish.

I did have a couple of pic somewhere I'll dig them out.

Hmm might not be accurate.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=4144&d=1418313845



This was how the rep worked but it's been updated since then,.

http://files.vbulletin.com/doc_images/reputation/reputation_manager.png

And the last update.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=1961&d=1416504341

The guilty party.



But as we all know the post count and amount of rep a forum user has grasped, grabbed and grovelled for over the years is no indication on the quality of the content they post....

This is a delicious insight into the life of a forum mod, thanks for posting duder.
 
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