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Attention Members: New Feature Announcement

In order to help improve everyone's experience here on the SBLive! Forums, we have added a visible reputation indicator so that members may grade each others activity on the forums. As you may have already noticed, "Rep Points" and "Rep Power" are now displayed in the left column of all posts. Below is an explanation of what these are for and how you can use them.

Your reputation points known as "Rep Points" is a numeric grade for your activity. Rep Points are earned from several different sources (i.e. post count, date of membership, quality of your posts, etc.). You can gain more points quickly by taking part in the forums and making quality conversation. Your Rep Power is your ability to affect other members' Rep Points by voting in approval or disapproval of a particular post. If someone makes a post in the forum that you find useful, inspiring, or otherwise grand for whatever reason, you may click the small scale icon at the bottom of the left column (underneath their avatar picture) to leave a comment on their record. A good comment will add to their rep points based on your rep power. Conversely, if the poster was rude, spreading spam, or otherwise posted unwanted material in your opinion, you may leave a negative comment to deduct points from their reputation based on your rep power.

The reputation system is useful but it can appear complicated at first, and it may in turn raise some questions. Please post any questions that you may have and we will attempt to answer them. Here are some things to keep in mind to effectively use this new feature:
1. New members automatically receive 100 rep points and 0 rep power.
2. Members must have at least 100 posts in their count before their rep power will start to change.
3. Rep points are increased based on:
- How long you've been a member
- Good reputation comments added to your posts by other members
- Your increasing post count
4. Members can ONLY leave 10 rep comments per day.
5. Members cannot add reputation to the same person twice without adding reputation to at least 4 other members.
6. Members must be logged in to see the "small scale" icon in order to add to someones reputation.
7. If a member develops a high enough negative rating, the member is subject to temporary suspension from the forums.

We are hopeful that this system will help to encourage users to keep their posts full of useful information for everyone to share. SBLive! is a community website, and this new feature will put more control of moderation into the hands of the membership.

What is the scale for points?

There really is no defined scale by which the points go up. You get points for every month you are an active member, for posting a lot, and for receiving good comments from other members about your posts (via the scale icon). The number of Rep Points you get for a member's comment is based on how much Rep Power that member has.

Example:
Member A has 100 Rep Points and 20 Rep Power.
Member B has 150 Rep Points and 35 Rep Power.
Member A likes Member B's post and leaves a good comment.
Member B's Rep Points go up 20 points (based on A's Rep Power)

Also note that when you leave negative feedback, only half of your Rep Power comes from their Rep Points. In the above example, Member A leaving a bad comment on Member B would have removed only 10 points from Member B's Rep Points.

I hope this cleared things up a little.

Grand idea I do agree

My thanks to SBL for being on the ball and seeing the need for this. :clap:
The Saxxon

how do you get rep power? This is cool...kinda like a video game!

You gain rep power by the same means as rep points, but you will gain fewer of them. You will also not have rep power at all until you at least have 10 rep points AND at least 100 posts.

Yup this is cool. Oh, I can feel the power now :D
Who can I knock down a few notches ?? :nono:
and who can I applaud ? :clap:

:cool:

Thank you, and let the games begin.

I concur with Neo

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Originally Posted by Neo

Thank you, and let the games begin.

Let the games begin. Something like Lord of the Flies who is going to be Piggy ? :laugh:
Isaac

Good to see some regulations...Discipline in consistency and consistency is discipline..

Snow Man:cool:

Good to see you back Snow Man

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Originally Posted by Snow Man

Good to see some regulations...Discipline in consistency and consistency is discipline..

Snow Man:cool:

I thought you where gone for the winter. I too like the new point system but this is only the first day. It is about time you came out of the freezer.
Isaac

63 replies otta be worth more than ten points, since I have not received any negative hate-mails

I wonder if we can trade points for prizes. Maybe a trip for 2 to the north pole. Brrrrr feels good

Snow Man:cool:

Thanks for the shout out Isaac. Think I got some of your mail by mistake?

SM:cool:

Nice to see you posting again

I guess its your right to cool chill some time what took you so long to post again. I know some think you are me and I am you but we do not even look the same. Keep up with those points :rolleyes:
Isaac

We decided that starting off with 10 points was not enough to be fair to new members. We have upped the number of starting points to 100. We also added 90 points to all existing members who started off with only 10 points. So everyone has been given 100 points consume or build upon. Thank you for your feedback.

All men created equal at SBL

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Originally Posted by sbl_admin

Will there be post as the rules change ? Kind of like my back yard :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Isaac-Saxxon

Will there be post as the rules change ? Kind of like my back yard :rolleyes:

Yes sure, although we hope that the rules do not change all that often. Sometimes with a new feature or a new system, we might have to "tweak" things if we don't get it 100% right the first time, but then things settle down. And you can always post a question at any time if you have a concern or suspect something has changed.

This will be interesting.

I've seen the vbulletin reputation system work well on other sites. I'm looking forward to see how it works here.

Any system that results in me having a positive reputation is obviously flawed.

Joe you are just a nice guy

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Originally Posted by joepole

Any system that results in me having a positive reputation is obviously flawed.

The Matrix has you joe....
knock, knock .................

OK SBL did somebody crack the data base ?

The informant is real :D Do you have more than one person working down there with the last name of "Smith" ? They are everywhere and nowhere because they can move in and out of programs using the back door. Fire wall up and in place sir ! :eek:
Isaac

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Originally Posted by Isaac-Saxxon

Isaac what are you talking about? Just curious.

I am talking about the Matrix

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Originally Posted by Isabella

Isaac what are you talking about? Just curious.

Did you ever see the movie ? Well everybody has their hang ups I guess mine was the 3rd level of thinking in the Matrix. Good to see you posting again ;)
Isaac

Welcome back, Isabella! :D

By the way, Isaac, if you like the Matrix, you might like this too. ;)

http://www.martialartssupplies.com/stickfight3.html

Everybody was Kung fu fighting

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Originally Posted by AnimeSpirit

Welcome back, Isabella! :D

By the way, Isaac, if you like the Matrix, you might like this too. ;)

http://www.martialartssupplies.com/stickfight3.html

Very funny stick fighting. More the mind game that was going on and the simple but basic questions that man has in the back of his mind. I did not like the second and third one as much as the first one. Hey now I have watched the Animatrix out takes and have you seen those ?
Isaac

I've seen Animatrix, but not out takes.

Hmmmmm, looks like one of our new members does not like this new point system. LOL. They quit posting after this thread was posted. :laugh:

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Originally Posted by AnimeSpirit

I've seen the vbulletin reputation system work well on other sites. I'm looking forward to see how it works here.

Maybe so, but I've also seen vb reputation system create a "snooty-ness" to a site that created a bad atmosphere over time. I really hope this isn't the case here. I like this site because it is local and all the other sites I frequent have no members from this region. (that I know of) My opinion is that a really good site doesn't need a reputation system and people learn who to trust and who to ignore. The good comes with the bad sometimes.