Rep points changing as other users Ninja status increases/decreases.

[Benwah]

What does everyone think about Rep points growing organically as other users Ninja status improves, specifically, as other users get more Ninja points all the existing Rep point historially increase from that person increase?

[Pirate]

1. Bad idea.. peoples rep points would sky-rocket
2. I have no idea how to make that :)

[imp]

God you're a cunt Pirate. I bet you could, you just don't want to ;)

[Reprobate]

1. Bad idea.. peoples rep points would sky-rocket
2. I have no idea how to make that :)

I agree with Pirate.

[Benwah]

yeah, I thought it would be kinda hard.... just figured it might give people an extra incentive to +rep or -rep people as it would effect everyone in the Zgeek community rather than just 1 person, so kinda a bonding thing kinda.

Yeah, true that everyones rep would go through the roof though.

Okay, bad idea excepted, carry on.

[CMYK]

What?

[Al]

Another idea crushed in it's infancy.

[mea culpa]

Another idea crushed in it's infancy.

do you enjoy crushing infants?

[Benwah]

What?

okay, let me explain it (I admit I didn't do a good job explaining it in the first place)

Say for exaple a month ago I have you +rep and I had 1 ninja point, as my Ninja status went up the EXISTING value of the +rep I gave you would go up (so, currently my Ninja status is 4, so that 1 point would be 4 points) make sense?

Thus, the flow on from you repping or derepping someone would effect the entire userbase of Zgeek rather than just one person.

But like Pirate said, due to some crazy repping over the last two weeks it would absolutely skew the rep of lots of peeps.

Just a thought really.

[Pirate]

God you're a cunt Pirate. I bet you could, you just don't want to ;)*OMIGOD* j00 R s0 Banned.

[sagit]

1. Bad idea.. peoples rep points would sky-rocket
...


you mean like SamBo's has? such a whore that guy. :p

anyway, rep is given to a single post of a zgeeker, so should stay as a fixed amount at the time it was made. otherwise there would be database links all over the place instead of (i assume) just a simple total.

[Deimos]

That sounds like a positive feedback loop that could spin outta control!

[fastfood]

How about another stat in there REP / POSTS, so that the POWER of your posts is scored, rather than just the number and visability of them. 8^o

eg if you have all day to post crap all over the site, your 34,000 posts and 400 rep points would equal a measly 1.1 hahaha!!
however if you posted 6 awesome pictures of animated boobies and got 400 rep points you'd have 66!! impressive hit rate!!!

lets reward profoundity, pornography and hilarity!

[Timformation]

I think we should encourage people to post more news - say 1/2 rep point for every front page post one gets.

[Bostonmess]

I think we should encourage people to post more news - say 1/2 rep point for every front page post one gets.

I dish it out when it's correctly formatted....once then. :D

[Timformation]

What comprises "correctly formatted?"

:confused:

[Bostonmess]

Firstly do a search for a key word to see if it's already been posted.

If you take the Family Guy (http://forum.zgeek.com/showthread.php?threadid=24072) post.

Originally the image was leeched from another site. This means that it wasn't hosted on Zgeek (apologies if you know this). It's considered rude for a website to "steal" another's bandwidth. So what I did was to upload it to the Zgeek gallery/uploaded images (http://gallery.zgeek.com/uploads), a link to which is found on the front page, over to the left (although it might depend on the version of the site you're using). You've then got a thumbnail, (after uploading obviously) right click it and choose properties, copy the location (not the address).

Back to your post, there's two icons at the top of the reply windows, click second from the right, in the box, then right click and paste. This inserts the newsimg code that correctly formats (wraps text) your picture now residing in the Zgeek gallery. Type or copy/paste your text in.

Then supply a valid link by clicking on the little world icon with a chain link on it, type you text in the box click ok then paste the url you've copied from your browsers address bar.

Choose an icon if you wish. Make sure you have a title.

Preview the post making sure that any pics and links work and then hit the submit.

I've pobably forgotten something, I started off this posted thinking should be easy to explain, and it probably is, however I seem to have gone into the ins and outs of the cats arse as usual :D

Hope it makes sense.

Personally I don't really care for how things are posted (and Thingy will probably shoot me for this) as far as I'm concerned a valid link will do.

But I will try and +rep you for well formatted, new, interesting news. :)

[Timformation]

thx

[kleph]

Firstly do a search for a key word to see if it's already been posted.

If you take the Family Guy (http://forum.zgeek.com/showthread.php?threadid=24072) post.

Originally the image was leeched from another site. This means that it wasn't hosted on Zgeek (apologies if you know this). It's considered rude for a website to "steal" another's bandwidth. So what I did was to upload it to the Zgeek gallery/uploaded images (http://gallery.zgeek.com/uploads), a link to which is found on the front page, over to the left (although it might depend on the version of the site you're using). You've then got a thumbnail, (after uploading obviously) right click it and choose properties, copy the location (not the address).

Back to your post, there's two icons at the top of the reply windows, click second from the right, in the box, then right click and paste. This inserts the newsimg code that correctly formats (wraps text) your picture now residing in the Zgeek gallery. Type or copy/paste your text in.

Then supply a valid link by clicking on the little world icon with a chain link on it, type you text in the box click ok then paste the url you copied from your browsers address bar.

Choose an icon if you wish. Make sure you have a title.

Preview the post making sure the any pics and links work and then hit the submit.

I've pobably forgotten something, I started off this posted thinking should be easy to explain, and it probably is, however I seem to have gone into the ins and outs of the cats arse as usual :D

Hope it makes sense.

Personally I don't really care for how things are posted (and Thingy will probably shoot me for this) as far as I'm concerned a valid link will do.

But I will try and +rep you for well formatted, new, interesting news. :)

now the learner has become the master.

[Pirate]

I'm so proud *sniff*

Bostonmess has the shit down where it comes to posting. :)

[tikdoph]

I haven't authored any news straight to the front page since the change cuz I get the feeling I'll fuck it up and make a mess. :D

[Reprobate]

Originally the image was leeched from another site. This means that it wasn't hosted on Zgeek (apologies if you know this). It's considered rude for a website to "steal" another's bandwidth.

is there some way whereby doing a NEWIMG wrap around a URL from another site that it will automagically upload it to the news gallery?

that would kill two birds with one stone. one being having a nice piccy to accompany the news item WITHOUT having to spend so much time uploading to the gallery and two being the lazy way of inserting images but without stealing other peoples bandwidth.

and i also like references to birds being killed. particularly those bastard Indian Myna birds.

[criminy]

I reckon users should have a total number of rep points to give equal to some multiplier of their current rep status. If they have used all these points, then any further use would result in the earliest used points being removed from that recipient, and reallocated to the new one.