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The RECOUNT is done.
And NOW the Bars will work PROPERLY.
I am turning the system BACK on.!
If in the end, everyone wants it that way, YES, that can be done.uh Chris, buddy. Can they remain hidden, except when ya click on the user name? I'm gonna need my shades
If in the end, everyone wants it that way, YES, that can be done.
....valuable contributing members of SnoWest really are![/B]
This system is almost immune from Rep Whore attack.
At last.
The new REP SYSTEM is working!
The Text that displays above the bar WILL vanish in a day or so.
Its just there for now so people have a quick idea what the bars mean.
When the text turns OFF, then your mouse will display the text when you Mouse-Over the bars.
honestly i think it needs to disappear now...
too much stuff by the avatar/name makes it hard to skim through threads.
Great. Another non-snowmachine related distraction for all the post whores to play with. There's already post count, rep points, and thanks. Now this new rating system. I suppose if you are trying to generate "activity" on the forum, you're succeeding. The problem as I see it is that most of the new activity will be about getting higher points, not posting about sledding. Great for selling the site to advertisers (which, I've realized, is the real reason you're here... ), bad for the members that want to talk about their sport.
Using the forums at SnoWest (or anywhere for that matter) shouldn't be a competition. But, I guess it's just another in a series of changes that I disagree with. :face-icon-small-sad
That just means there's "almost" a chance it'll be abused
Since this has obviously caught most everyone's attention, I thought I would take a couple minutes to explain in a bit more detail just how on earth we are computing this new points system that generates the colored bars your now seeing.
The following is how SnoWest evaluates each member and determines their total score. Each of these carries a different value of points, the lowest being 0.5 and the highest being 50 right now.
Points for infractions (negative)
Points for completing profile
Points for reputation
Points for reputation use (giving rep points)
Points for days online
Points for social group members
Points for friends
Points for visitor messages
Points for album pictures
Points for referrals
Points for new threads started
Points for tags
Points for thread votes
Points for replies to own threads
Points for thread views
Points for sticky threads
Points for posts
Points for attachment views
Points for views on other user's attachments
Points for Thanks
Points for downloads
Points for vBulletin Blog
Points for Social Group Discussions
Points for Social Group Messages
But as you can see, the points calculations look at the TOTAL activity of an SnoWest member. You could never post a single thread on SnoWest and still rack up plenty of points by being an active participating member on the site in other ways.
UNDERSTANDING THE BARS.
Underneath the name of the poster are three colored bars.
ORANGE
The orange bar displays your total number of SnoWest points, and the bar shows your relative score as compared to the top poster on the site.
GREEN
The green bar shows your activity level based on participation on SnoWest. Every member can MAX out this bar just by being active in the various categories that award points.
BLUE
The blue bar shows how close you are to being promoted to the next level. There are 100 levels of membership from 0 points, to the highest score recorded on SnoWest. Levels are broken down in equal increments from top to bottom.
These three bars will allow any member to quickly get a snapshot of any other SnoWest member.
As I have said several times now, PLEASE BE PATIENT. There really is a game plan here that we are following, a method to our madness as it were....
You will see them get smaller and smaller as time goes by.
Right now the old rep system just went OFF LINE and the new one just came ON-LINE. This is a HUGE CHANGE for most of the members of this forum.
Give me a week or two so that most of the SnoWest members get a chance to see them and understand them.
Then, step one will be to remove the text, that will reduce their footprint by 50%.
Step Two will be a user toggle that allows each user to choose whether or not to view them on their personal display. At that point you will have full control over them.