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What you guys don't see - because the software to enable it isn't activated - is that there are actually 3 Rep settings.
Anyway - its an interesting topic - but a moot point really. The system is inactive (and I think that's not a bad thing) - but I suppose its an interesting talking point. My opinion shouldn't carry any more weight just because people happen to like my reviews or a few of the posts I've made over time. In the end I'm just one person.
If you want to I can do a small table of some of the posters here - so you can see a snapshot of your weighted rep at a moment in time - but it'll have to be when I get a spare minute.
- First setting is the reputation, or cumulative number of times any post of yours has been given "rep".
- I'm pretty sure that the unique reputation is the number of individual posts which have received reputation.
EG you've posted once, and received 20 reps => therefore you would have 20 Reputation points and one unique reputation recorded
OR you've posted 10 times, and received 2 reps for each post => therefore you would have 20 Reputation points and ten unique reputation recorded - The setting you don't see is the weighted - or total reputation
Each user - depending on their own reputation, time on the forums etc - receives a weighting. The more rep you have, the more weighted rep you bestow when you click the rep button. The reason behind this is so that if the rep system was activated, it gives a truer picture of "actual reputation". This might sound a bit "up myself" - but its not intended to be - I'm just using me as an example.
Say you have a new user - he and his friends join, and go about constantly repping themselves in order to game the system. There are 2 safeguards. You are limited on the number of times you can give rep in a 24 hour period to a particular person. And the system also gives a weighted number based on your time and rep here. So your 10 friends could give you 10 reps worth 1 point each = 10. But if someone like myself or Amos repped you, then that could make it a lot higher.
I'm not 100% sure on how it (the weighting) works - but I think its your total reputation. EG I have a rep received of 3416, but I have a weighted rep of 18435 (and yes it is the highest on the site currently - but it is just because of the reviews mainly). So if someone like "Mr Newbie" reps me - I get 1x1 = 1 point. If someone like Currawong reps me (my recent HD800S review), it is someone with a high weighting repping someone with high rep, and the particular post was highly repped anyway (HD800S review - so may have counted more). Anwyay my weighted rep gained 90 points.
But that's unfair - I see some of you thinking. Not really - if the rep system was being used, the fact that I've been repped by a highly respected member of the Community should carry more weight. The system is designed so that anyone coming along can theoretically see whose opinion is more likely to be trusted by the Community as a whole.
Anyway - its an interesting topic - but a moot point really. The system is inactive (and I think that's not a bad thing) - but I suppose its an interesting talking point. My opinion shouldn't carry any more weight just because people happen to like my reviews or a few of the posts I've made over time. In the end I'm just one person.
If you want to I can do a small table of some of the posters here - so you can see a snapshot of your weighted rep at a moment in time - but it'll have to be when I get a spare minute.
