WebSlave
12-06-2004, 12:37 AM
I thought it would be a mistake to include the reputation system on this site, but people seem to be having a lot of fun with it over on my CornSnakes.com site. Matter of fact, I took it offline for a while and got a WHOLE LOT more requests to re-enable it then I would have imagined. But if it proves to be more hassle then it is worth HERE, then I will pull the plug on it.
I will post what I can here about it. If you have any other questions about it, sorry, but you are on your own to figure it out yourself. I haven't looked into everything about it, and doubt I will anytime soon.
If anyone wants to dig into this with any more depth, then I suggest that you go to the vBulletin Message Board (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/) where you will soon learn that even the developers are a bit hazy about this. Evidently this was taken from a hack by another programmer and incorporated into the latest vBulletin version. It appears that even JelSoft's programmers aren't all that certain about how it works.
Anyway, here goes....
An Introduction to User Reputation
User Reputation in its simplest form is a ranking of your user's benefit to your forum. Its basis comes from the opinions of all of your forum users that choose take part in it.
Users gain and lose reputation based on how their posts are scored by other forum participants. Users with the ability to affect reputation, will either give or take aways points by approving or disapproving with a post's content.
User reputation can be a derisive element of your forum so great care should be taken before a decision is made to enable it.
All of the factors that affect a user's reputation score are found in the User Reputation section of the vBulletin Options (in the Admin section). Please view that section of the manual for more information on controlling how users are able to affect another user's reputation.
Modifying User Reputation Levels
As users, gain and lose reputation, they are associated with a moniker that describes their current level. These levels are modifiable by navigating to User Reputations->User Reputation Manager.
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/pics/reputation_manager.png
In the above example, we have all of the levels that users on this forum can achieve. For example, a user with a reputation of 55 would have the level of will become famous soon enough. A user with a reputation of -5 would have a level of has a little shameless behaviour in the past. Since the lowest level in this example is -99999, any user with a reputation lower than this would use the default undefined level that is set in the reputation section of the vBulletin Options.
From this screen you can choose to edit a level description, change a level minimum or remove a level. If you wanted to change the minimum level of has a reputation beyond repute from 2000 to 3000 you would enter 3000 in the input field where 2000 is currently and press [Update]
If you wished to change the text of has a reputation beyond repute, you would press the <Edit> link.
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/pics/reputation_edit.png
From this screen you can also change the minimum level as you can from the previous screen. Enter the new level text in the Description field but take care as you can not use HTML in this field. Press [Update] when finished.
Adding a new reputation level presents you with the same screen, but only empty. Make sure to choose a reputation level that is not the same as a level that already exists as levels must be unique. You will not be allowed to save the field if you duplicate a minimum level.
The following is a pic of the actual options for setting point accumulations for certain events for a member:
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/pics/reputation_settings.jpg
Bear in mind that this is from an Admin's perspective about the Reputation system, but it should give you an idea about what it does.
There is one option in the Reputation display that I have limited to be visible to Contributors and Admin/Mod staff only. That is the ability to actually see WHO left the Reputation notes on you.... ;)
Now that you are all experts on that subject, I will bring up another one that probably most people have overlooked...... User Notes.... :)
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/pics/user_notes01.jpg
From the following text, you will see that this particular option is generally only used by the Admin and Moderation staff of a site. I thought that perhaps this would be another useful tool that all members could use to post comments about other members that would reside in their User Info section (User CP) as a type of instant feedback. After all, this seems to go hand in hand with what the BOI is all about, and push come to shove, I guess this site is really built around the BOI and what it is intended to accomplish.
With that said, if I see this abused, it will get yanked from common usage by all but the people it was originally intended to be for. So use it wisely, please....
User Notes Options
Users with permission to read / write usernotes are now able to goto a profile of a member and leave usernotes about this person. This feature is intended to allow staff members to discuss members and keep the information organised rather then having a variety of threads in a staff forum.
The vBulletin Options > vBulletin Options > User Notes Options setting group allows you to set up the parsing for a usernote. You can turn on or off the use of BB Code, Smilies, tags and usage of HTML.
[i]Note:
The ability to use usernotes, read them, read your own, allow others to reply or manage them is a usergroup setting. Do not forget to walk through each usergroup to set the use and permissions of usernotes correctly.
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/pics/usernotes.png
Basicly the usernotes are plain-text entries that hold comments from other (staff) members. Turn on these options to allow markup of text and insertion of smilies / images or even HTML
There. Now you all know just as much as I do about this stuff...... :shrug01: :shrug01:
I will post what I can here about it. If you have any other questions about it, sorry, but you are on your own to figure it out yourself. I haven't looked into everything about it, and doubt I will anytime soon.
If anyone wants to dig into this with any more depth, then I suggest that you go to the vBulletin Message Board (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/) where you will soon learn that even the developers are a bit hazy about this. Evidently this was taken from a hack by another programmer and incorporated into the latest vBulletin version. It appears that even JelSoft's programmers aren't all that certain about how it works.
Anyway, here goes....
An Introduction to User Reputation
User Reputation in its simplest form is a ranking of your user's benefit to your forum. Its basis comes from the opinions of all of your forum users that choose take part in it.
Users gain and lose reputation based on how their posts are scored by other forum participants. Users with the ability to affect reputation, will either give or take aways points by approving or disapproving with a post's content.
User reputation can be a derisive element of your forum so great care should be taken before a decision is made to enable it.
All of the factors that affect a user's reputation score are found in the User Reputation section of the vBulletin Options (in the Admin section). Please view that section of the manual for more information on controlling how users are able to affect another user's reputation.
Modifying User Reputation Levels
As users, gain and lose reputation, they are associated with a moniker that describes their current level. These levels are modifiable by navigating to User Reputations->User Reputation Manager.
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/pics/reputation_manager.png
In the above example, we have all of the levels that users on this forum can achieve. For example, a user with a reputation of 55 would have the level of will become famous soon enough. A user with a reputation of -5 would have a level of has a little shameless behaviour in the past. Since the lowest level in this example is -99999, any user with a reputation lower than this would use the default undefined level that is set in the reputation section of the vBulletin Options.
From this screen you can choose to edit a level description, change a level minimum or remove a level. If you wanted to change the minimum level of has a reputation beyond repute from 2000 to 3000 you would enter 3000 in the input field where 2000 is currently and press [Update]
If you wished to change the text of has a reputation beyond repute, you would press the <Edit> link.
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/pics/reputation_edit.png
From this screen you can also change the minimum level as you can from the previous screen. Enter the new level text in the Description field but take care as you can not use HTML in this field. Press [Update] when finished.
Adding a new reputation level presents you with the same screen, but only empty. Make sure to choose a reputation level that is not the same as a level that already exists as levels must be unique. You will not be allowed to save the field if you duplicate a minimum level.
The following is a pic of the actual options for setting point accumulations for certain events for a member:
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/pics/reputation_settings.jpg
Bear in mind that this is from an Admin's perspective about the Reputation system, but it should give you an idea about what it does.
There is one option in the Reputation display that I have limited to be visible to Contributors and Admin/Mod staff only. That is the ability to actually see WHO left the Reputation notes on you.... ;)
Now that you are all experts on that subject, I will bring up another one that probably most people have overlooked...... User Notes.... :)
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/pics/user_notes01.jpg
From the following text, you will see that this particular option is generally only used by the Admin and Moderation staff of a site. I thought that perhaps this would be another useful tool that all members could use to post comments about other members that would reside in their User Info section (User CP) as a type of instant feedback. After all, this seems to go hand in hand with what the BOI is all about, and push come to shove, I guess this site is really built around the BOI and what it is intended to accomplish.
With that said, if I see this abused, it will get yanked from common usage by all but the people it was originally intended to be for. So use it wisely, please....
User Notes Options
Users with permission to read / write usernotes are now able to goto a profile of a member and leave usernotes about this person. This feature is intended to allow staff members to discuss members and keep the information organised rather then having a variety of threads in a staff forum.
The vBulletin Options > vBulletin Options > User Notes Options setting group allows you to set up the parsing for a usernote. You can turn on or off the use of BB Code, Smilies, tags and usage of HTML.
[i]Note:
The ability to use usernotes, read them, read your own, allow others to reply or manage them is a usergroup setting. Do not forget to walk through each usergroup to set the use and permissions of usernotes correctly.
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/pics/usernotes.png
Basicly the usernotes are plain-text entries that hold comments from other (staff) members. Turn on these options to allow markup of text and insertion of smilies / images or even HTML
There. Now you all know just as much as I do about this stuff...... :shrug01: :shrug01: