Dynamic reputation

[Kentaurus]

This hack isn't done yet, but I would like suggestions and/or see if someone else (besides me) is interested in it.

Reputation is something that can or cannot be used. When it is used it can effectively show which users had a better behaviour in the forum because they will be voted. There is just a little problem: users don't vote. They only vote when asked (if this post helped you, please give me reputation!!) and I hate to see that in a signature or in every user's posts. Even when you can vote you forget to, then reputation becomes pretty much stalled. In my forum users want to post, not to vote. That's also the reason for thread's rating not to be very popular.

I have started implementing some "dynamic reputation" system. But I would like to have more rules and to have rules that make sense. Here is what I have that makes a reputation a number that really changes and that stills shows the user "reputation"


When a user replies to anothers user's post the user that is being replied gets reputation. Why? Because if someone has taken the time to reply to my post that might be a good post so reputation is given to me.

When a user writes a very small post (like 30 characters or so) he looses reputation. I am sorry but I don't consider that a post worth of the forum. While some posts would only require two words the majority of them need more than that.

Whe a user starts a thread he gains extra reputation. Why? Because new threads are sometimes more important than a single thread with 100 pages.

When a user receives a pm he gains reputation? And that's mostly the same as the "replying to me" reason.


I want to know if someone is interested and to come up with more rules for this. The objective is that the reputation somehow reflects the popularity of the user in the forum, but in a self-managed way, instead of relying on votes.