Show Thread Enhancements - Extended Reputation Display

As of 24 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.

This hack extends the existing reputation display system from just the light/dark green pips to green and golden pips, and then a series of bronze, silver and gold stars as the pips limit is reached.

The dark green pips are followed by light green pips, which are then followed by gold pips. When the limit these can display is reached, the (prefix) display of stars begins - starting with the bronze stars, then silver stars and finally gold Stars. If your reputation is zero then the neutral grey pip is displayed. Negative reputations are displayed in a similar manner using light and dark red pips and red stars - however, there is only one star level for negative reputation.

Each time you 'lap' the limit of the pips display, another star is added. The number of each star is limited by an ACP option (by default, 5 bronze = 1 silver, and 5 silver = 1 gold). The number and value of the pips in each group of pips is defined by six settings in the vboptions > reputation options. A line break can be inserted after the stars. The extended display system can be enabled/disabled in the options.

Just follow the install instructions in the zip file to install this product.


History:

v3.8.001 : First Release for vb 3.8

[M? CaMPa]

thank you

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

OK I changed to much smaller stars and really like the display no line break needed. Now I'm wondering if there is an easy way to make it display as many red stars as 'positive' stars in total? In the plugin I added 2 lines under the neg rep declarations,

				$repy = 'redstar';
				$repz = 'redstar';

and changed the if statement from if($pos) to just if(1) - best I could tell the logic might just have been there already but alas it didn't work right, very low reps had the full amount of negative stars but when I sorted my member list by lowest rep first I saw some were out of order, one had 2 red stars and a few pips and it was listed below 1 star and some pips, when I looked at the actual values they were as expected (sorted correctly) so I guess the math/logic for negative rep multiple stars is wrong- is there an'easy' fix for this, something I could add to the code so it calculates the number of negative stars correctly?

Im not sure what your trying to do here, but I would it imagine it worked exactly right - but since you defined all three stars (bronze,silver,gold) as red, it would look odd, since you have no way of knowing the 'value' of each red star - one gold star would be one red star, and three bronze stars would be three red stars, making it look like a higher red rep when in fact its lower.

[BirdOPrey5]

ahhh you're right... it probably did work right but couldn't tell the difference between the stars... maybe I can figure 2 more neg colors besides red... I guess what I was trying to do was just to make it display up to 9 (in my case) red stars for the lowest of the low reps, but each star doesn't represent an equal amount. I'll figure something out. Thanks.

[Alfa1]

Does this addon allow me to define different ranges for the display of negative and positive pips?
My range of positive reputation is between 0 and 10.000 points, while my range of negative points is between 0 and -100. As -100 causes a ban no one has less than that. I'd like to display one red pip for every 10 negative points.

[Paul M]

No, the same range is used for both.