I have been out today so I have much to catch up on. Let me respond to a number of comments of which some of them were posted multiple times.
We have some options about the "what" we can do about the Rep system "if" people think it needs to change. So for now the poll is about whether it should change and by what kind of degree. It has been enlightening to see the responses so far with votes in every option. There are some limitations based on what is implemented by the vBulletin system we have and the weightings. There is a cap which at present is unused so we could do a +1 only system or we can have some other options. In theory only we could possibly retroactively adjust peoples rep scores but that might be difficult. Again, in theory we could reset them back to zero and start again but it would be difficult. I was going to run another poll about what options we have and what people might think is the best one to adopt based on the feasibility of how easy it would be to implement.
At present I know when I hit the rep button I can give negative Rep with the "I disapprove" option but then being an admin I have lots of things / options just slightly different to most members. I am not sure if only admins and CL's have that option or everybody. I know my rep is limited to +10 at the mo because I am an admin. My normal member rep power would be higher if I was not an admin but there is the option to make admin rep the same as everyone else's - which I think is a good idea TBH. It seems to be a general consensus (of which I agree with too) that we don't need negative rep on the site. If CL's & admins still get then that's not too big a deal. I have never heard of anybody ever giving negative rep at any time anyway. Please correct me if you know different. Negative scores on some sites is a useful thing esp when dealing with opinions and facts where they can be wrong and it can be useful to push some posts down rankings. But here, there is no wrong map.
At the end of the day the trophy cabinet of silver and gold compasses, and especially our highest achievement of the Annual Awards and other similar shiny things under the members icon is the best indicator of reputation but I like the idea of rep as a means for members to doff the cap to another map. The "why" you leave rep is left entirely up to those giving it. Whilst maybe specific advice or participation is deserved, normally it is given for good artwork. We have a special shiny award in the trophy cabinet for outstanding participation such as running events or organizing things above and beyond the expected level of engagement.
So to the rep bar... well I had never considered that. I will look to see how that is implemented and whether we can satisfy the OCD nature and justify it against the right hand side. I don't know if its a set of bitmaps or something else.
As for the Icon size. I think that does raise a good point. 64x64 or 80x80 is too damn small now. Not sure how the guild looks on everyones machine or device but I think the left darker brown bar is a lot wider than the icon so we ought to accommodate something about twice as wide by 1.5x high or similar. Of course that would mean that the Rep bar would have to extend that much further...
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Originally Posted by Redrobes
