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Reputation Points and You! - A quick guide for new users about the rep system! - justsomeguy - 16.09.2013

Introduction.
Hello, and thank you for clicking this topic! Underneath you will find a guide explaining how the reputation system works and how people commonly use it!

I hope new users will find this guide usefull, critisism is appreciated!


Chapter one: The reputation points and social status.
This forum makes use of a 'reputation' system. Wich it's goal is to give other users an idea of how trustable or how nice you are.

People always want a bigger and better social status than others. Even here, online where we are complete strangers to eachother, we still feel the need to be in some way 'better' than others, by having a better imaginary social status.
This is something you cannot stop, because it is actually part of human instinct.


Chapter two: negative (-) reputation points and positive (+) reputation points.
As you may have noticed, some users have a '-' in front of their number of reputation points.
This means that they have a reputation below zero, wich is concidered a bad status.

If there is not an '-' there to see, then they have a positive reputation status. Usually higher reputation points is concidered a good thing.
People with a higher amount of reputation points will find themselfs being trusted a little bit better, and thus are concidered 'better' than people with the negative amount of reputation points.


Chapter three: Postcount and reputation points.
Not only are the reputation points important, also the postcount.

What exactly is the postcount: Quite simply the amount of comments or threads made by the user. This forum has several ranks, with 'Godfather' being the highest rank.(This also somehow affects your imaginary social status)

How the amount of posts and reputation points can affect your image:
Little Clucker - 0 rep.
You're new, nothing too bad.

Big Clucker - 10-20 rep.
Not too bad, other users probably will still look down on you though.


Big Clucker and up - 100-500 rep.
Pretty good. People won't be a dick as fast as normal as long as you aren't a dick yourself.

Any rank- Negative rep.
Seen as not able to trust/a troll/12 yr old kid.

Chapter four: Why complaining about your negative reputation points is a bad thing to do.
As you may have noticed; you are on the internet. People like to troll and screw around. So if you complain about people deducting your reputation points, they will jokingly do it some more!

Complaining will only make the trolls and everyone in general deduct your reputation, because they are tired of the same thread being made weekly and/or they think it is extremely childish to complain about imaginary internet points.

Chapter five: Conclusion.
What we have learned today:
People are always in battle over the postion of 'who is the better person' and will therefore be demeaning toward others who they condider to be 'below' them.

Reputation points are mostly used as an indicator of what the person may be like, but should most of the times be ignored due to the high amount of trolls.

Complaining about this will only get you MORE reputation deduction.

Thank you for reading this little guide! Any critisism is highly appreciated and thank you for reading!

EDIT;
Removed [center] tags since it annoyed people!

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Re: Reputation Points and You! - A quick guide for new users about the rep system! - IceCube! - 16.09.2013

Sorry just to clear this up so it might be stickied I'd ike to correct some of your spellings.

Which it's goal is to give other users an idea of how trustable or how nice you are. (1'st line under chapter 1).

will therefore be demeaning toward others who they consider to be 'below' them. (Chapter 5 - Conculsion)

That's all your mistakes, granted I make my own; however I REALLY want this stickied so hopefully idiots read it.

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Re: Reputation Points and You! - A quick guide for new users about the rep system! - justsomeguy - 16.09.2013

Thank you very much! My spelling is quite bad, indeed because English is not my first language.

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Re: Reputation Points and You! - A quick guide for new users about the rep system! - IceCube! - 16.09.2013

It's okay as I edited my post above, I'm only doing it because I want it stickied. Also you only had 3? spelling mistakes; which is pretty good if English isn't your first language. Personally if I wrote that it would be filled with spelling mistakes, we're only human right?.

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Re: Reputation Points and You! - A quick guide for new users about the rep system! - justsomeguy - 16.09.2013

Fixed the errors, I hope this will get sickied because this would be a usefull sticky thread to new users.

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Re: Reputation Points and You! - A quick guide for new users about the rep system! - KingHual - 16.09.2013

it's = it is, "its" is correct


PS: "Wich" should be "Which"


Edit: You could also combine sentences:

"This forum makes use of a 'reputation' system. Wich it's goal is to give other users an idea of how trustable or how nice you are."
turns into
"This forum makes use of a 'reputation' system, whose goal is to give other users an idea of how trustable or nice you are."

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Re: Reputation Points and You! - A quick guide for new users about the rep system! - IceCube! - 16.09.2013

and/or they think it is extremely childish to complain about imaginary internet points.

Is the main reason people deduct reputation or me personally. I don;t often do it, I usally only GIVE reputation. The other reason is carried out by a minority of the forum.

Also thats fine, as I said I would make mistakes myself; which proven I did make this mistake.

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Re: Reputation Points and You! - A quick guide for new users about the rep system! - Scones - 16.09.2013

To correct your correction, it's should be its as it is the possesive form of it. Whereas it's is an abbrevation for it is.

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Re: Reputation Points and You! - A quick guide for new users about the rep system! - IceCube! - 16.09.2013

It's been corrected already above and I did say "Granted I make my own" (Mistakes). I did make numerous statements basically meaning in a sub-text "I may be wrong".

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Re: Reputation Points and You! - A quick guide for new users about the rep system! - Konstantinos - 17.09.2013

Let me correct you as well.

it's should be >> it should be
Whereas it's is >> Whereas it's/Whereas it is

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I doubt that new members will read this thread.. but let's hope they will!

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