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How much rep do you have?

Re: How much rep do you have?

FlagDUDE08 said:
I wonder why the 2-power exponents for levels are -∞, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22, 25, 28, and 31... why they didn't use other 2-powers, 10-powers, or some random assignment...

BTW, is there a place where I can check this exact number? Do I have to give money to the site in order to find this out? (aka Premium member)
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There is no way to look at the numbers for levels. Ralph (and others) figured this out from counting reps (knowing each reps value) and from asking one of the Admins.
 
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JF_Gophers said:
There is no way to look at the numbers for levels. Ralph (and others) figured this out from counting reps (knowing each reps value) and from asking one of the Admins.
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I was mainly referring to how I check my rep number. There are others that are proclaiming their rep number.
 
Re: How much rep do you have?

FlagDUDE08 said:
I wonder why the 2-power exponents for levels are -∞, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22, 25, 28, and 31... why they didn't use other 2-powers, 10-powers, or some random assignment...

BTW, is there a place where I can check this exact number? Do I have to give money to the site in order to find this out? (aka Premium member)
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I have forgotten exactly the history and who was the Lodge member who contacted Ed Trefzger, but it was on our suggestion that there be a way to find out when people maxed out. The multiply by eight for each message seemed appropraiate at the time. It would have been better if they could have changed the points where the 11 chicklets appeared but that was hardwired.

Here is the page from the vBulletin manual showing how the places where the messages appear can be modified. http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/main/reputation_levels Note that by default one only needs 2000 points to get the last message. (That one has disappeared here.)

The messages can also be changed. I have always felt that messages appropriate to hockey should be used, but that never happened. :) Anyway, it might have caused more disagreement due to eastern or western bias.
 
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Re: How much rep do you have?

FlagDUDE08 said:
I was mainly referring to how I check my rep number. There are others that are proclaiming their rep number.
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JF answered that. It's near the top on the right on your CP page.


Edit: Shoot me an email if there are questions that only someone who went to a tech school would appreciate. :D I am still proud of having figured out the constants in the formula describing rep power back in 2007. rep power = floor(rep/100) + floor(posts/1000) + floor(days member of USCHO/365) + 1
 
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Re: How much rep do you have?

JF_Gophers said:
Oh thats in your User CP. You can see that any time. :)
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Oh, OK. 488,578,909 for me. Hopefully the next time I receive a rep I can see as to how th number increases or decreases. I don't think it's just post count, because the only person who would max out would be Ralph Baer. :D

And I'm spelling like him, too. :eek:
 
Re: How much rep do you have?

FlagDUDE08 said:
Oh, OK. 488,578,909 for me. Hopefully the next time I receive a rep I can see as to how th number increases or decreases. I don't think it's just post count, because the only person who would max out would be Ralph Baer. :D

And I'm spelling like him, too. :eek:
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I'm sure Ralph could rattle off the rep formula if you wanted to know. Then you could calculate how much you are giving out each time.
 
Re: How much rep do you have?

JF_Gophers said:
I'm sure Ralph could rattle off the rep formula if you wanted to know. Then you could calculate how much you are giving out each time.
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It's there in post 86. :D I think that I also posted it earlier in this thread.
 
Re: How much rep do you have?

FlagDUDE08 said:
Oh, OK. 488,578,909 for me. Hopefully the next time I receive a rep I can see as to how th number increases or decreases. I don't think it's just post count, because the only person who would max out would be Ralph Baer. :D

And I'm spelling like him, too. :eek:
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It does depend upon postcount, but if you look at the formula, the effect of post count is miniscule compared to the effect of the rep of the poster repping you. When we started, postcount was the most important, but eventually the rep component swamped it.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
I have forgotten exactly the history and who was the Lodge member who contacted Ed Trefzger, but it was on our suggestion that there be a way to find out when people maxed out. .............
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I think it was A Shot and a Goal, wasn't it?
 
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Ummmmmm, if he's at -100 mil, he can't give green. It would be grey. That's kinda what this thread was about in the first place. ;)
 
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I thought that someone posted once from the vbulletin site that the max absolute value of negative rep a person can obtain is half that of positive rep - going hand-in-hand with the relative power of a negative rep left by a poster.
 
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Wow, he's actually proud to be the biggest d-bag on the boards.

I'm just surprised he's taken this much time to post, when he's obviously got much better things to do, like starve and beat his anorexic wife.
 
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St. Clown said:
I thought that someone posted once from the vbulletin site that the max absolute value of negative rep a person can obtain is half that of positive rep - going hand-in-hand with the relative power of a negative rep left by a poster.
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The maximum absolute value of negative rep one can have is 2,147,483,648, one more than the positive maximum. It's a consequence of the way that 32-bit integers are represented. No one has gotten there yet on USCHO, but it would have taken more trouble than it was worth to make it different.

The fact that the power of a neg rep is half that of a positive rep was a vbulletin decision. (Not counting truncation if the positive rep power is an odd number. I.e, if your positive rep power is 101, your neg rep power is -50.)
 
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