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Old 2009.06.09, 07:37 AM   #26
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Originally Posted by ShinjiPG View Post
I never said you should lose or gain anything. All I'm saying is that a point system, like the money system, where you use numbers to dictate the value of a person, is always going to create inequity and differences, and the real value of the person is never correctly represented. As you see, your own rep power doesn't even start to represent what you have given to this community.
If the Rep Power was something just for fun, I wouldn't mind participating, but it's not just for fun and may have multiple intepretations by different members and is overall a bit confusing.

Well, but thanks for explaining anyway. I was the one who had the questions in the first place, so the least I can do is thank you for not saying "It's a secret, go back to your place!"
Like I said, the system only cares about your Rep Power for purposes of how much you would modify someone else's Reputation with an Approval or a Disapproval. You could have high Rep Power and low Reputation, or high Reputation and low Rep Power. If anything measures my contributions to this community, it's my second green dot - which is based solely on my Reputation, and not at all on my Rep Power. You might notice there are other people with the same Rep Power who only have one green dot, and there's someone with two green dots who has slightly less Rep Power. I don't measure a person's value according to Rep Power, and neither does the system. Everyone needs to stop looking at Rep Power like it's the most important stat. Reputation is actual acknowledgment you get from people, it's not the same thing as Rep Power, and nobody has lost any Reputation from the recent changes.

What I am mostly concerned about is the Reputation inflation I have seen at other communities. Imagine if I had so much Rep Power, that everytime I Approved you, that basically gave you another green dot. Then by a certain proportion, your Rep Power shoots up, as does the Rep Power of anyone else I've Approved. Maybe the Rep Power doesn't go up enough for any single one of you to give me a green dot in one Approval, but it goes up enough that maybe a handful of you can give me another green dot in one week or one month, and then I'm gaining about as much Rep Power as you just gained. Then who knows, maybe a year later, everytime I Approve you, that gets you two green dots. I have seen some communities where people have dozens of green dots next to their names, and I don't want our community here to be like that, but I would still like to keep the system.
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