Staredit Network

I haven't been very involved in v5, so I'm going to start contributing a bit here.

Here's the basic formula:

Rating = (Seniority * Rep) - Wounds

Trial Member: ONLY member group allowed for anyone who has under 5 or 10 seniority points.

Rating < 0: Restricted. Uh oh.
Rating >= 10: Member
Rating >= 100: Regular: Must have at least 75 seniority points.
Rating >= 400: Elite: Must have at least 200 seniority points.
^Of course, we can always change the values and add new groups, just some theorycrafting.

Seniority - Increases by one for each day the member logs on to the site. Maybe there can be a button or something to push every day, or just have it not increase if they haven't posted within a certain amount of time since the last increment (24, 48 hours). I'm biased towards seniority, sorry. I really don't like post count or posts per day to go towards the formula, so this is the closest thing to it.

Reputation - This one gets a little more involved. Reputation starts out at 100.0%. A member's level determines to what degree they can affect it. Each member can set a value for any other member ONCE, but they are able to change their value at any time.

Trial Member: Cannot affect reputations.
Member: Can affect reputation on a -.2 to +.3% scale.
Regular: Can affect reputation on a -.3 to +.5% scale.
Elite: Can affect reputation on a -.5 to +.7% scale.
Staff (?): Can affect reputation on a -2 to +3% scale.
Global Mod (Higher Staff?): Can affect reputation on a -4 to +5% scale.
Admin: Can affect reputation however they want.

And, of course, the Staff and above must factor in that they must use reputation fairly... they have the next factor for punishment.

Wounds - Admin fun time. When someone is warned/fined/disliked by admins or whatever, we set this to some number. It is subtracted from the whole thing at the end. The wound value is "healed" by 3 per day... or some other value. Maybe a percentage, or the mod/admin can set a value for how much to heal it.

And, that's it. Expect a few edits.

Yeah, Reputation is hard to understand. You have to visualize or something.

A member likes someone for some reason, so they set their value for that person to +.3%
Shazam, that person's reputation is 100.3%.

Someone else doesn't like them, they give them -.1%.
Bam, it goes to 100.2%.

Basically, everyone's fractional percents start to add in to something... as they rise in the ranks they have greater ability to affect others.

700%?
You'd need...

2000 members to like you.
1200 regulars to like you.
858 elites to like you.

And that assumes we don't take them out to begin with.

That is rather interesting...

Your system dtbk always seems overly complicated with too many factors. I don't see what days inactive on sen or days on sen have anything to do with little equations to see if you gain 1 mineral on a shout or 12 minerals on a 6 to 12 mineral post...

It just doesn't seem... logical... or... fitting...

Long time I haven't been in this forum so here goes.



I'd rather do it this way:

Rating = (Seniority * 2Rep%) - Wounds

Everyone starts at 50% rep and the range goes from 0%-100%. Having people over 100% just seems illogical and makes the newer people who don't understand the system confused.

I placed 2Rep so that 50% = 1 and it won't affect the reputation in any way. 100% = 2 and 0% = 0. Seems much less "rigged" than just have 1 person with very few seniority points have insane rating just because his buddies gave him massive rep.

Also the ability to change one's reputation should be from -X% to X%, this way it's equal to either way going up or down.

Wound healing should be +1% per day. It shouldn't decrease the rating by % but instead by using a specific number for the offense. Even though this system is a bit biased towards elites, we already give more chances to elites than newer members so it won't really change anything giving elites a small advantage.

Rating Numbers can and will probably go into the negatives if wounds get high enough. When this happens a member will start losing access to several aspects of the site until he/she is ultimately banned. This way the system will work perfectly with Global Mods and will require no need to act like crazy to contact an Admin, like it has happened in the past.

This was really more for convienence than anything else. I could say 1.0 and affects by .001, but that just looks retarded, so I used percents.


Yeah, that can change. I just thought there should be more potential to boost up than to destroy... my reasoning is that new members are likely to hate people for illogocial and/or trivial reasons.


Yeah, I intended for it to be a whole number. Percantage/number variation was meant for healing purposes, I wasn't very clear there. Elites already have an advantage to recover with higher seniority ratings. I definitely think 1% is a little low, however.

I meant multiply the percentage by 2. Keep the system you suggested except make it from 0%-100% and multiply it by 2 in the formula. New members start at 50% meaning that it won't change seniority at all.