Little green thingies under name?

[EvilotionCR2]

Hello, Ive noticed recently that there are little green thingies under your name. Some have 5, some have less. So, how are theese determined IE what do you need to get an other Little Green thing?

[Supernovy]

This is the reputation bar. It increases when other people give you reputation by clicking on the star symbol below your post.

I think it may be 100 reputation points per green bar.

[KasperVld]

Yeah, the green bar is something that we can't configure, but you can find a lot more information about the forum's reputation system here: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/51861-Forum-feature-highlight-the-reputation-system

[The Destroyer]

Is it just me, or does the +rep look like a sherrif badge? It makes it look like the ! is report post and the +rep is report user or something :/

[EvilotionCR2]

Wow thats hard, I got 34 rep points but I will be celebrating 2 years on this forum soon.

[The Destroyer]

Wow thats hard, I got 34 rep points but I will be celebrating 2 years on this forum soon.

No, you have at least one rep. That's why you have a single green bar. It goes in stages, read Kaspers post. I have... 10 rep points I guess for the first level?

[Red Iron Crown]

Near as I can tell, you get a gray bar to start, it turns green after you receive your first rep. Additional bars come with each 100 pts of rep, so 2 bars = 100-199 pts, 3 bars = 200-299 pts, etc.

It is somewhat shocking to me that I'm in the top 40 of forum members for reputation, there are posters who have contributed far, far more than me who have less so I don't take someone's rep all that seriously. My observation is that a witty or funny post is more likely to receive rep than a helpful one.

[The Destroyer]

Apparently I have 122 reputation points total. I don't know how that happened.

[sjwt]

Apparently I have 122 reputation points total. I don't know how that happened.

If you goto your profile, there is a whole tab that shows where you got Reputation from.

[The Destroyer]

If you goto your profile, there is a whole tab that shows where you got Reputation from.

Apparently I've recieved rep from 15 people...

[Red Iron Crown]

Apparently I've recieved rep from 15 people...

More than that. It only shows the last 15 people to rep you. Given that the maximum rep power is 5 and you have 122 points, at least 25 people have repped you, probably more. You're more popular than you think.

Edit: 2000 posts!

[HafCoJoe]

Oh. I thought it was an equation of given rep to number of posts to reputation received. Guess I was wrong.

Edit: Yeah I've looked at that page quite a bit actually. As well as the mod list. Which probably should be updated imo :I.

Edited May 16, 2014 by Avera9eJoe

[Red Iron Crown]

The link KasperVld posted describes how it works pretty well, here it is again: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/51861-Forum-feature-highlight-the-reputation-system

Another thing I've noticed is you can't rep someone repeatedly, the system enforces a wait period before you can rep the same person again. Which is good, some other forums I've been on end up with a "rep exchange" thread where the same few posters trade rep back and forth, making rep (more) meaningless.

[vexx32]

It's not just a wait period; you actually have to go give rep to a fair few other people before you're allowed to give it to the same person again.

[HafCoJoe]

Exactly how much reputation is each green bar? 100 points each?

[KasperVld]

(From vBulletin.org)

For each 100 positive rep points you get an additional green image and a new reputation title. When you reach 500 it takes 200 additional points to get a bright green.

[HafCoJoe]

Ahh thanks.

[Red Iron Crown]

Interestingly, someone just repped me and gave me 10 points. Super mod powers?

[Specialist290]

Most likely. I know normal moderators automatically have 5 rep-giving power regardless of their own reputation level, so it wouldn't be surprising if the Global Moderators have an even higher one.

[vexx32]

They changed the max rep power not long ago, to my memory. It was probably either a global, Rows, or one of the devs.