Ratio of posts to rep points

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notmyown

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resurrection33 said:
When you have a lot of rep points, does that mean you are posting meaningful stuff, or does it mean you are telling people what they want to hear?
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wouldn't it be great if they were always the same?


sigh.
 
laura_charlotte

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resurrection33 said:
When you have a lot of rep points, does that mean you are posting meaningful stuff, or does it mean you are telling people what they want to hear?
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It is sad to see it's about numbers for people. Members can write any number of posts all day, every day which are totally meaningless. If they have a few followers and the need for attention via endless posts because they don't otherwise fill their time with anything substantial, anyone in this position can receive aforementioned 'points'. For me, it is about content. If someone can take something away from what I've said that's valuable and meaningful to their life, then that's the most important thing.
 
notmyown

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laura_charlotte said:

It is sad to see it's about numbers for people. Members can write any number of posts all day, every day which are totally meaningless. If they have a few followers and the need for attention via endless posts because they don't otherwise fill their time with anything substantial, anyone in this position can receive aforementioned 'points'. For me, it is about content. If someone can take something away from what I've said that's valuable and meaningful to their life, then that's the most important thing.
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again, just curious, but for whom is it about numbers?
 
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EarnestQ said:
Hello,

How about a calculation of the number of posts divided by the rep points, or vise versa? This will give a number to how meaningful a person's posts are to others. For instance, if someone has only a few posts but with high rep point, his posts will have more value than someone who has low rep points but a high post count. This could help people take note of people they might want to follow.

Thank you.
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I used meaningful twice, will I get twice as many reps now! :p

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wwjd_kilden

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notmyown said:
again, just curious, but for whom is it about numbers?
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Now this is a good question.

PS to all: The "reputation" shown is rep power. That is; that person's ability to give rep to others.
so if someone has a high rep power, their reps give more rep points than the rep of someone with less rep power.
 
resurrection33

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I'm sure we all think our posts are wonderful and we deserve to have thousands of rep points. I lost interest in rep points a long time ago. I just like to express an opinion on topics that arise and try to solve people's problems for them.
 
notmyown

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wwjd_kilden said:
Now this is a good question.

PS to all: The "reputation" shown is rep power. That is; that person's ability to give rep to others.
so if someone has a high rep power, their reps give more rep points than the rep of someone with less rep power.
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thank you!! :)

i've always thought of it as the ability to give.
it's really lovely. :)
 
Blain

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laura_charlotte said:
This is such an apt description of the forums and a beautiful piece of wisdom to follow.
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To add I always have believed that a silver tongue is often times a still one but when that still tongue does speaks it speaks gold
 
resurrection33

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Something else that occurs to me is that if you want to have a high rep points to posts ration, you need to stay off the New Members Forum, because you'll never get rep points over there.
 
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resurrection33 said:
Something else that occurs to me is that if you want to have a high rep points to posts ration, you need to stay off the New Members Forum, because you'll never get rep points over there.
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Or...you welcome people because you want to, not because there's a reward.
 
resurrection33

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Hellooo said:
Or...you welcome people because you want to, not because there's a reward.
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I try to welcome everyone who posts on the New Members Forum. Can't remember ever getting a rep point for it.
 
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I wonder if that's good
 
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resurrection33 said:
I try to welcome everyone who posts on the New Members Forum. Can't remember ever getting a rep point for it.
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New people probably don't know what the rep and like system is.
Ive given you a rep for your faithfulness :)
 
Blain

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Actually i have received rep from posting in the new members section several times tourist gave me one and I was pretty surprised by it I didn't expect any rep I was just trying to help this new member which btw Tourist i never thanked you for it so as thanks for an undeserved rep point I applaud you smileyfaceclappinghands.gif
 
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