LMC really did this too you? What a disgrace, but at the same time mildly funny Man, thats good stuff....

 

Hey Nick, LMC got to my uncle pretty good too. I would highly recomend not buying from them. I think most of the site sponsors here are pretty reputable places. I know Jeff's bronco grave yard treated me pretty good.
Doc

 

i just realized that was my 3,000 post wow time has gone by fast.

 

That's why it says post master up there by your name....LOL. your a posting fool.
I want to be just like you when I grow up.
Doc

 

i want to be like mil1on with 30,000 posts i have only been here since 04 too.

 

Let me amend the above statement based on my revised research, because today I saw a RED SQUARE (a rarity ) :

The system will automatically absorb (NOT nullify all negs) initial -10 points dinged to someone, because it assigns the initial +10 buffer points to everyone, to begin with. However, if you are an exceptional ding receiver below 0, you will turn into a rare red square !! Until yesterday, I had not seen a RED SQUARE, so no one's rating was below 0 "rep" points in the whole system!

From time to time, the admins can change the settings, so sometimes you would see this extremely rare occurrence on someone's profile, and most of the times you would never see this red shooting star!!!

 

Interesting - (I've been doing some pointless snooping)
I must have too much time on my paws again...

In line with the list of "Hover Text" messages that come up when the mouse pointer is over the rep blocks of a user, I wondered what the list was. So I scanned the memberlist ordered by rep points to see what all of the messages are so far. And yes there is exactly one that is red. I expect it turn back to green before long (hopefully).

Ordered from least to best, here are the messages I found:

(user) has a little shameless behaviour in the past
(user) has a neutral reputation at this point
(user) is on a distinguished road
(user) is off the scale
(user) will become famous soon enough
(user) has a spectacular aura about
(user) is a jewel in the rough
There are probably more undiscovered mousehover messages...

Now it gets kind of curious though. The "blocks" don't seem to always match up with the hover text. Frankly I had to guess which was better, 'distinguished road' or 'off the scale' too, because they are mixed alternately through the entire list of single green block awarded users, so the green blocks mean something, but the honorific means something a little different. It might have something to do with averaging, who knows? (that is allowed to tell...).

The top three on the rep list are (in order):
1) ivanribic (6.7 K posts)
2) proeliator (6.6 K posts)
3) Mil1on (30 K posts)

- all three are "Jewels in the Rough"
- ivanribic and proeliator have four blocks, Mil1on has three


In the whole of FTE, there are only 26 members with more than one rep block.
Two have four blocks, six have three blocks, and eighteen have double blocks.

Of these 26 people, three are admins, two are sponsors, and one is a moderator.
Mil1on was an admin, so count his either way...

The hover text "will become famous soon enough" is associated with not only single rep block users, but extends on to the first ten of the double rep block users.

Huh... Curiouser and curiouser...
I wonder if the blocks themselves are the number of feedbacks, and the honorific is the average?
I love a good puzzle.


~Wolf

 

Right on Wolf...your "paws" are really digging good...Great work!! Let me just help you and everyone out, by resolving this puzzle, once for all!!!

Here is the cracked code, as I deciphered it:

"Rep" points # of squares

0 to 99 ............1 green

100 to 199 .......2 green

200 to 299....... 3 green

300 to 399....... 4 green

400 to 499....... 5 green (no one yet)

-99 to -1......... 1 RED (rare case)

And, in the future, there would be more green squares, as the members' points would start growing above 399.

Currently, in the whole system, no one has a score of more than 350. How do we know that? Look at the progression provided by beeboy:

User is infamous around these parts (below -50)
User can only hope to improve (-50)
User has a little shameless behaviour in the past (-10)
User is an unknown quantity at this point (0)
User is on a distinguished road (10)
User will become famous soon enough (50)
User has a spectacular aura about (150)
User is a jewel in the rough (250)
User is just really nice (350)

and in the future:
User is a glorious beacon of light (450)
User is a name known to all (550)
User is a splendid one to behold (650)
User has much to be proud of (1000)
User has a brilliant future (1500)
User has a reputation beyond repute (2000)

No one has yet displayed the hover text "User is just really nice (350)". Which tells us that as soon as a "4 green squares" holder displays this hover text, he/she has reached/crossed the 350 rep points threshold.

Wolf, this explains your dilemma of "The "blocks" don't seem to always match up with the hover text." The deciphered code explains that there is an overlap, which explains that two people may have the same hover text, yet different # of squares. Now, let's go back to your rep list:

The top three on the rep list are (in order):
1) ivanribic (6.7 K posts)
2) proeliator (6.6 K posts)
3) Mil1on (30 K posts)

- all three are "Jewels in the Rough" .. means all three have scores above 250
- ivanribic and proeliator have four blocks, Mil1on has three... means Mil1ion has not hit 300 yet, while ivanribic and proeliator are between 300 and 350.

Hey guys, how is that for a MILLION CANDLELIGHT ENLIGHTENMENT!!! I am posting this at 4:20AM and have to go to Vegas on business for 5 days...I better get some brownies, otherwise you all are gonna spoil my trip...BTW, wolf & gashog already got my brownies on this thread (wolf on "why do we post" thread) very early on, and the stupid thing won't let me give him any more...LOL!!!

 

(Grinz) -"Now that's just really nice..."

Yeah buddy! That about SCOPES it out!

(?) Except for one puzzling thing I noticed last night -
Go to the members list (use Ctrl+N to pop open a new window first) and order the list by reputation in reverse and check the squares in order.
You will find that the text messages are not in order. "Distinguished Road" may be followed by "Off the Scale", and then Distinguished Road" is on the next one along... As if they hopscotch in some way.

This is the reason I figured number of feedbacks ordered the list, but average accounted for the text message. If this is true, a few slams here and there might alter the balance.

- Skip to about page ten, and you'll see exactly what I mean.


~Wolf

 

Why should they be the standard messages from the Vbulletin writers?

How about:

(user) can change oil filters without getting dirty.
(user) has an enchanted timing light.
(user) was born with a titanium combo wrench.
(user) has a calibrated hammer.
(user) is an automotive nostradamus.

Etc...

Theoretically those options can be customized.

 

Hmm, interestingly enough, the green squares don't seem to correspond exactly with the reputation text, I.E. there were some "will become famous soon enough" with 1 green square, and then the first 10 double squares still had the same text. Then, the first four with 3 squares still say "spectacular aura..." just like the rest of the doubles.

I found myself listed higher than I thought, only four pages from the end, but there was a guy higher than me who only had 24 posts. Must have been good ones! -TD

 

Two threads merged

 

Tim! Now I am confused... Doesn't take much...

-Matt

 

Post 63 and 64 was merged with this one......we merge them to keep all pertinent question in one thread...we'll we try, some questions still get duplicated….and by the way thanks Beast.

Patience, presences, and persistence.. that is us!

 

Ya, I know what you did. I just like to let people know I get confused easily. HA!

-Matt

P.S. No prob!