After some research, the way that reputation is supposed to work in this new version is that if you push the "like" button on someone's post, you are conferring reputation points to them, according to your relative "power" to give reputation. Your relative reputation is displayed below your avatar as a series of red bars. If you roll over, it offers a text interpretation of the score.
Reputation "power" is earned based on longevity as a forum member, post count and your own reputation.
This either: a) doesn't seem to be true in practice, or b) is near impossible to figure out.
Searching the "Help" on reputation, makes it sound like there is a way to see you "reputation power" and there is obviously a way to disable showing rep, but I can't find it (not that I want to disable mine).
Users settings are set so:
1. Users cannot disable showing their rep-- although that doesn't matter much now since all "rep" is basically positive.
2. Your reputation power "factor" is not visible to you was a user. (not sure this is ever set to be visible)
3. The vbulletin documentation is a little opaque as to how exactly it works under the hood, so it is what it is.
It takes a lot of rep points to get any of the bars to show up at all. And 99% of users on this forum don't have any more rep than what they started with.
This either: a) doesn't seem to be true in practice, or b) is near impossible to figure out.
Searching the "Help" on reputation, makes it sound like there is a way to see you "reputation power" and there is obviously a way to disable showing rep, but I can't find it (not that I want to disable mine).
Users settings are set so:
1. Users cannot disable showing their rep-- although that doesn't matter much now since all "rep" is basically positive.
2. Your reputation power "factor" is not visible to you was a user. (not sure this is ever set to be visible)
3. The vbulletin documentation is a little opaque as to how exactly it works under the hood, so it is what it is.
It takes a lot of rep points to get any of the bars to show up at all. And 99% of users on this forum don't have any more rep than what they started with.
