Reputation and Post Counts

[PRC1964]

1. 8086
2. 8088
3. 80286
4. 80386
5. Pentium

[alreadypacked]

The reputation system allows you to vote for or against other people's posts. (You can also enter a reason for your vote.)

The votes for and against are aggregated and used to derive a score which is mapped to a description, which is then displayed with that user's posts. Over time, the idiots will gain more insulting descriptions and those who generally manage to make a useful contribution will get something more fulsome.

There are various controls to prevent the usual suspects from trying to game the system with their sockpuppets: for example, you can only vote on a fairly small number of posts a day, and once you have voted on a user you have to record a number of votes on other users before you can vote again on the original user.

The "post count" bit is about restoring posts in Light Relief to the post count system: expect Zeity's contributions to TPD to cause his recalculated count to overflow the space allotted in the database

That doesn't suprise me

[Spacecadet]

Why can't we just use the usernames like we do now?

-100. Minestone
...
100+. Cojak

[Churchill]

1. 8086
2. 8088
3. 80286
4. 80386
5. Pentium

Is there something wrong with the 486?
(Apart from the bug)

[Churchill]

Why can't we just use the usernames like we do now?

-100. Minestone
...
100+. Cojak

Where would "grovelling bastard" appear on your scale?

[fullyautomatix]

Is it possible that you plug in a logic so that the post count is reset to 0 if the reputation of a poster goes down the pan ?

[Spacecadet]

Where would "grovelling bastard" appear on your scale?

99

I didn't want to seem to be self aggrandising so left it out

[PRC1964]

Is there something wrong with the 486?
(Apart from the bug)

Grr, the phone rang while I was typing. So much for multi-tasking.

I was going add an alternative list of programming languages too, ranging from FORTRAN to VB.Net but it's too late now.

[Churchill]

Grr, the phone rang while I was typing. So much for multi-tasking.

I was going add an alternative list of programming languages too, ranging from FORTRAN to VB.Net but it's too late now.

I take it that VB.NET would be classed as "tulipest of the tulipe"?

[PRC1964]

I take it that VB.NET would be classed as "tulipest of the tulipe"?

Indeed. Also known as the "Milan Benes" option.