To clarify my understanding. All reputation settings are in effect decided by The Great Boss. Is that correct? or have I misunderstood again? Because in my profile it says I have 20 rep points from the 3 green awards I have - and 0 appears on my posts.
I hate to carry on about this but as you, Oh Great One, says on the original Reputation thread
"When people read through the site, they will see which members to pay particular attention to, and are more likely to believe what they say"
It that iis the purpose of this reputation business then only the moderators will ever be believed as they have a reputation points score far in excess of everyone else. I am sure that there were noble reasons behind what was probably designed for the whole community to decide who has valuable insights into the subjects discussed on here. However the implementation seems to be along the lines a count of how many "great posts" one makes and if someone's opinion about what constitutes a decent post diffea from The Great One then that defeats the whole purpose as the ordinary user's opinion has been squashed.
I understand that this will appear as sour grapes but I don't give two hoots about this reputation business - I just would like the abilty to send a private message as and when. In my opinion it seems to be a good way to divide the community into cliques. Individual (new?) readers can easily work out for themselves who has pasted decent advice in the past rather than assuming that they will rely on some green dots which have been awarded by random users in an uncontrolled way (e.g. some users will give rep points and most probably won't even bother).
See aboveOriginally Posted by Win2Win
The useful advice: put the new away you've played with enough now
