The User Reputation system allows your board members to leave comments about one anothers' posts, and thereby contribute to their overall 'reputation'.
Introduction to the Reputation System
User Reputation in its simplest form is a ranking of your user's benefit to your forum. Its basis comes from the opinions of all of your forum users that choose take part in it.
Users gain and lose reputation based on how their posts are scored by other forum participants. Users with the ability to affect reputation, will either give or take aways points by approving or disapproving with a post's content.
How do I give Reputation?
You can give rep on a post by click on the "Rep" button located to the bottom left of a user's post. It is the button located between the user's online/offline status and the report post button. When you do this, it should look like this screenshot:
As you can see, I clicked on Rep and then thanked LoyalAlum for his giving us "heads up" with his post. If someone posted something I didn't agree with, I could easily do the opposite, etc.
How is Rep calculated?
Below is what goes into the "Rep Power" calculation. All of this has been left at default, except Administrator's Rep Power, which I set to 0 so it would follow the same rules set for everyone else.
How can I view Rep that I have given or received?
To see if you've received rep or to look at what you've given out, you can go into the User CP and you'll see something similar to this:
It will show the latest 10 given and received. If green, that means positive, grey means neutral and red means negative.
Introduction to the Reputation System
User Reputation in its simplest form is a ranking of your user's benefit to your forum. Its basis comes from the opinions of all of your forum users that choose take part in it.
Users gain and lose reputation based on how their posts are scored by other forum participants. Users with the ability to affect reputation, will either give or take aways points by approving or disapproving with a post's content.
How do I give Reputation?
You can give rep on a post by click on the "Rep" button located to the bottom left of a user's post. It is the button located between the user's online/offline status and the report post button. When you do this, it should look like this screenshot:
As you can see, I clicked on Rep and then thanked LoyalAlum for his giving us "heads up" with his post. If someone posted something I didn't agree with, I could easily do the opposite, etc.
How is Rep calculated?
Below is what goes into the "Rep Power" calculation. All of this has been left at default, except Administrator's Rep Power, which I set to 0 so it would follow the same rules set for everyone else.
How can I view Rep that I have given or received?
To see if you've received rep or to look at what you've given out, you can go into the User CP and you'll see something similar to this:
It will show the latest 10 given and received. If green, that means positive, grey means neutral and red means negative.
