Post by bigballofyarn on Sept 24, 2024 17:01:23 GMT -5
The "reputation" in your profile is not an accurate number for many people. "Likes" didn't exist for about the first 8 years that this forum existed. Other factors contribute to "reputation," which is why people who delete their accounts and rejoin can have SOME of their reputation restored. We've toyed with different features over the years. We once had a separation of given and received reputation, followed by a total. Given likes are no longer factored into your total.
I was thinking of nuking the reputation # entirely and replacing it with a topic creation counter under your post count. If I do this, you have to log in from a desktop device once and click a button that will allow the forum to collect a total. Again, this is something that is tied to a person's account ID. So, if you delete your account and rejoin, your topic creation total will go back to zero. Yes, I can keep reputation and still add the topic total, but we are then dealing with a lot of numbers in the mini profile.
What do you want to do? Vote in the poll.
I was thinking of nuking the reputation # entirely and replacing it with a topic creation counter under your post count. If I do this, you have to log in from a desktop device once and click a button that will allow the forum to collect a total. Again, this is something that is tied to a person's account ID. So, if you delete your account and rejoin, your topic creation total will go back to zero. Yes, I can keep reputation and still add the topic total, but we are then dealing with a lot of numbers in the mini profile.
What do you want to do? Vote in the poll.
