Greebo
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Retired Evil Overlord
This software contains two very important features which make it especially well suited for use in building a virtual community: Reputation, and Thread Ratings.
Thread Ratings
This option allows you to give your opinion on the quality of a particular thread, by rating it with 1 to 5 stars. You cast your opinion on a thread while reading the thread. At the top of the thread, on the right hand side of the screen, you will see a Rate Thread link, which opens up a mini window with the five ratings. Pick one, and click "Vote Now", and you're done.
Your vote will be averaged with the votes of others to give a general average star rating to the thread. You can then see, at a glance, when looking at the list of threads, what your fellow community members here at Pilots of America think of the thread.
Thread Ratings apply only to threads, not posters.
Reputation
This is by far the more powerful and more complex concept here at Pilots of America. In establishing a virtual community, each member has a perception of other members that can be vastly different from that member's self-perception.
Reputation is a means by which the community at large can express their perception of an individual member without making that opinion public.
When a person makes a post, you have the ability to record a positive or negative hit on that person's reputation. You do this by clicking on the Reputation Icon
by that person's post.
When you click this icon, you are prompted to give your Approval or Disapproval for that post. That approval or disapproval adds or subtracts from the poster's reputation. A person with a low enough reputation will get a graphical representation in the red
by each of their posts, while a person with a high reputation will get a nice bright green bar. A single
or
indicates a fairly neutral value, while many
symbols indicate a high positive and many
indicate a very LOW reputation.
How much your approval or disapproval affects another person's reputation is defined by your reputation power. Your reputation power is based on your own reputation level, your activity level here (number of posts) and how long you've been a member. Note the difference between reputation power and reputation level. Level is what the community thinks of you. Power is how much influence you have on another posters level.
Here are the rules:
- New posters start with a reputation level of 10.
- Posters with less than 50 posts have no reputation power. (New accounts can not be created just to affect another's reputation)
- You must have a reputation level of 10 or higher for reputation power to be effective.
- You start with a reputation power of 1.
- You gain 1 point of power for every 100 points of reputation gained from others.
- You gain 1 point of power for every 1,000 posts made.
- You gain 1 point of power for every 365 days you've been a member of this site.
- You may only give or take away reputation 10 times a day.
- Once you affect a users reputation, you must affect 10 other users reputations before you can affect the first user's again.
- Administrators (myself included) do not have any extra power. However, we are not subject to the 10x a day or the 20 user spread limitations.
As you can see, your reputation is derived almost entirely from the opinion of others, so it is important, as a community, for you to not only pay attention to your OWN reputation, but to express your opinion of other poster's reputations regularly. But remember - you only have 10 reputation hits a day. If you are neutral about a specific post, don't waste a reputation hit on it. Save your power for posts which you particularly approve of or disapprove of.
Be careful with your reputation. It matters!
Enjoy!
The Management
Thread Ratings
This option allows you to give your opinion on the quality of a particular thread, by rating it with 1 to 5 stars. You cast your opinion on a thread while reading the thread. At the top of the thread, on the right hand side of the screen, you will see a Rate Thread link, which opens up a mini window with the five ratings. Pick one, and click "Vote Now", and you're done.
Your vote will be averaged with the votes of others to give a general average star rating to the thread. You can then see, at a glance, when looking at the list of threads, what your fellow community members here at Pilots of America think of the thread.
Thread Ratings apply only to threads, not posters.
Reputation
This is by far the more powerful and more complex concept here at Pilots of America. In establishing a virtual community, each member has a perception of other members that can be vastly different from that member's self-perception.
Reputation is a means by which the community at large can express their perception of an individual member without making that opinion public.
When a person makes a post, you have the ability to record a positive or negative hit on that person's reputation. You do this by clicking on the Reputation Icon
When you click this icon, you are prompted to give your Approval or Disapproval for that post. That approval or disapproval adds or subtracts from the poster's reputation. A person with a low enough reputation will get a graphical representation in the red
How much your approval or disapproval affects another person's reputation is defined by your reputation power. Your reputation power is based on your own reputation level, your activity level here (number of posts) and how long you've been a member. Note the difference between reputation power and reputation level. Level is what the community thinks of you. Power is how much influence you have on another posters level.
Here are the rules:
- New posters start with a reputation level of 10.
- Posters with less than 50 posts have no reputation power. (New accounts can not be created just to affect another's reputation)
- You must have a reputation level of 10 or higher for reputation power to be effective.
- You start with a reputation power of 1.
- You gain 1 point of power for every 100 points of reputation gained from others.
- You gain 1 point of power for every 1,000 posts made.
- You gain 1 point of power for every 365 days you've been a member of this site.
- You may only give or take away reputation 10 times a day.
- Once you affect a users reputation, you must affect 10 other users reputations before you can affect the first user's again.
- Administrators (myself included) do not have any extra power. However, we are not subject to the 10x a day or the 20 user spread limitations.
As you can see, your reputation is derived almost entirely from the opinion of others, so it is important, as a community, for you to not only pay attention to your OWN reputation, but to express your opinion of other poster's reputations regularly. But remember - you only have 10 reputation hits a day. If you are neutral about a specific post, don't waste a reputation hit on it. Save your power for posts which you particularly approve of or disapprove of.
Be careful with your reputation. It matters!
Enjoy!
The Management
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