Enhanced Reputation Given Checks

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This adds a set of extra checks for whenever members try and give reputation to posts.


Reputation Power Cap
Sets the maximum reputation giving power for any member.

Higher Reputation Forum List
Any reputation given in the forums listed will be multiplied by the "Higher Reputation Multiply Factor".

Higher Reputation Multiply Factor
See above : Forums in the "Higher Reputation Forum List" will have any reputation given multiplied by this factor.

No Reputaion Forum List
List of Forums in which members cannot give reputation to posts.

Open Threads Limit
Posts in open threads, that are older than this limit, cannot be given reputation.

Closed Threads Limit
Posts in closed threads, that are older than this limit, cannot be given reputation.

Negative Reputation Multiply Factor
All negative reputation is multiplied by this factor (by default vb sets negative reputation to half of positive reputation).

Require Reputation Comment
Members must leave a comment in order to give a post reputation.


Points to note ;

• If a member does not have permission to give negative reputation then any negative reputation they give will be set to zero - in default vb they ended up giving positive reputation.
  
• The vb fixed admin reputation setting is multiplied by the negative reputation factor - in default vb it was the same value for both positive & negative, while everyone elses negative was half the positive value.
  
• If the negative reputation factor is 0.5 (to replicate default vb) then there will be one minor difference, a member whose positive reputation power is 1 will have a negative reputation power of 0, in default vb this would be -1.
  
• The reputation cap is checked before any multiplication factors are applied - also the Forum Multiply and Negative Multiply are cumulative (e.g. if the cap is 40, and you have a forum multiply of 3, and a negative multiply of 2, a member could give a rep of -40 * 3 * 2 = -240).
  

History:

v1.04 : Initial Public Release.
v1.05 : Fixed zero reputation bug reported by sinaluna in Post #51.
v1.06 : Minor changes, no update necessary.

[Eagle Creek]

Is there a vB 3.6.x version for this one?

[Paul M]

No, this works fine as is on 3.6

[h2ojunkie]

If you want to continue to use the VB default of negative reputation counting only 1/2 as much as positive reputation, you need to change the Negative Reputation section of Reputation Checks (2) to the following:

// Negative Reputation //
if ($reputation != 'pos')
{
	$reppower *= $vbulletin->options['negrepfactor'];
	if ($reppower < 1 & $reppower > 0)
	{
		$reppower = 1;
	}
	$reppower *= -1;
	if (!($perms['genericpermissions'] & $vbulletin->bf_ugp_genericpermissions['cannegativerep'])) $reppower = 0;
}

I've only tested this on vb 3.6.2, so I'm not sure if it still applies for older versions

[Paul M]

I see no reason to need to change it, please explain.

[h2ojunkie]

If you set the reputation modification factor to 0.5 (vb default) so negative reputation only counts 1/2 has much as positive reputation.

Let's say a users rep power is 1.

Using your mod as it is, the following happens.
1st: reppower converted to a negative number (1 X -1) = -1 reppower
2nd: the negrepfactor is applied (-1 X 0.5) = -0.5 reppower

So now the system tries to apply a -0.5 to the users reputation. Except for some reason, when applying -0.5 to a users reputation, VB rounds it to zero, so no negative reputation is actually given. I couldn't find any code that was causing it to round to zero, but for some reason that's what happens. It appears that when it actually assigns the points to the users total reputation, it only factors in whole numbers, and does not round them. So a reppower of 5.5 for example, only applies 5 points to the users total reputation. Therefore a reppower of 0.5 only applies 0 points to the users reputation. What is weird, if you view the reputation comments in admin, you'll see it rounds 4.5 to a whole number and displays it as 5. But if you look at the users profile, you'll see that it rounded it down and only applied 4 points to the reputation.

So I took at look at the default negative rep code in functions_reputation.php to see how VB dealt with it by default (I'm writing this off the top of my head but I believe it went something like this):

PHP Code:

    $reppower = $reppower/2
    if ($reppower < 1)
    {
        $reppower = 1;
    }
    $reppower *= -1; 


So I took that and applied the same idea to your code except I added "greater than 0" condition because without it a person with a reppower of 0 would still be able to give negative rep to other members.

[Paul M]

Thank you for the note, however, it works exactly as it was designed - there is/was no requirement for it to work exactly like default vbulletin - I won't be changing it.

If you set the factor to 0.5 then it will almost be the same, the two exceptions being (as you have found) if your positive rep power is 1, then your negative rep will be 0 (not -1). The other exception is already mentioned in the notes (fixed Admin rep power). I will add another note to point out this small difference.

That worked! Thank you very much as always bro. Much appreciated!

[Phrost]

Originally Posted by zylstra

<if condition="$show['ratablelink']">

[/CODE]into the postbit template.

And if you wrap that conditional around the one that displays rep, you can limit showing reputation scores only in the forums in which it can be earned.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Eagle Creek

Is there a vB 3.6.x version for this one?

There is now ;

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=133775