When VB-World Became VBForums: A bit of history

"I never saw anything particularly bad out of him" -- I did... it was mostly early on... and it wasn't a language problem, but a really bad surly attitude... demanding, like he was entitled to the answers. The last few I've seen from him have softened up some... so maybe it was a language barrier... but still...

Now I'm curious... when you give rep, your own repping power is used... so if good rep adds, and negative reps subtracts... if someone has neg rep, and they give neg rep... is it a double negative and turn into a positive? 8 - -4 = 12 .... like that?

-tg

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Now I'm curious... when you give rep, your own repping power is used... so if good rep adds, and negative reps subtracts... if someone has neg rep, and they give neg rep... is it a double negative and turn into a positive? 8 - -4 = 12 .... like that?

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It is rather like you find in the description for neutral ratings: "A neutral rep, from a member who has under 20 posts or less than 5 rep points. These do not affect your reputation."

But it could be "funny" if it would be like you "propose".

And talking about this Bob, I do always remember it is this Bob as soon as(or better as late as) he replies on an answer I gave.

I thought that when you give negative reps, it subtracts half your reputation power.

So, if the person you give reps has 20 points, and your rep power is 10, then when you give negative reps, it will be 20 - 5 = 15. And if you would give positive reps, then it would be 20 + 10 = 30.

so if your rep power was -10 ... half that is -5 ... does it then add 5 when you give negative rep"?

*shrug* I'm sure there's something in place to deal with that. It was just me thinking out loud.

-tg

Like I posted before, you can only give rep's at all if you have a minimum of 20 posts AND at least a rep of +5.

When you give a negative rep it takes your total rep points and divides that number by 2.

Then that number is multiplied by a factor of +1 for each year you have been a member of the forums then subtracts your age.

Then that number is added to your good cholesterol count, subtracted by your bad cholesterol count and multiplied by the square root of total numbers of years of higher education that you have completed.

By then it has completely lost track of what it is doing and just gives the member a positive rep of 2 points.

And now you know the rest of the story.

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Originally Posted by techgnome

so if your rep power was -10

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I don't think the rep power can go negative.

I'd say it is academic.

I did once bring somebody up out of the red, but I think I know who it was, and I think they are back to the red. Perhaps water seeks its own level.

I was just looking at the VBForums members list for reputation. Here's the first page

http://www.vbforums.com/memberlist.p...ort=reputation

and here's the last page

http://www.vbforums.com/memberlist.p...tion&page=3825

If you put your mouse over the red reputation dot for members on that last page it doesn't give you a number but says : (member name) has a little shameful behavior in the past. That's what it says for all the members on the last page except the one that is the very last. For that member it says : bob5731 can only hope to improve. We don't know what negative reputation figure that represents. There are only a total of 20 members at this time that have a red reputation dot.

Hahaah. Bob is last, and he's actively here over 6 years :D
Brad and JPnyc are on second to last page. For shame! ;)

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Originally Posted by baja_yu

Hahaah. Bob is last, and he's actively here over 6 years :D
Brad and JPnyc are on second to last page. For shame! ;)

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Have you noticed that is going somewhat is the same order as traffic lights?

Green, Black (Yellow on traffic lights), Red

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Originally Posted by EntityX

If you put your mouse over the red reputation dot for members on that last page it doesn't give you a number but says : (member name) has a little shameful behavior in the past. That's what it says for all the members on the last page except the one that is the very last. For that member it says : bob5731 can only hope to improve. We don't know what negative reputation figure that represents. There are only a total of 20 members at this time that have a red reputation dot.

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That means bob5731 has a reputation between -010 and -050. (member name) has a little shameful behavior in the past have a reputation of 0000 between -010. That is all according to the forum faq.

Only -10?!

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Originally Posted by baja_yu

Only -10?!

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That's what it said in the faq but I don't know the last time it was updated.

There was also HarryW, taking the piss out of everyone.

Aaron Young, Chris ... who else?

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Originally Posted by baja_yu

Brad and JPnyc are on second to last page. For shame! ;)

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Note the color of the gems for those two. They aren't grey, they are black. Those two have reputations turned off.

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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

Note the color of the gems for those two. They aren't grey, they are black. Those two have reputations turned off.

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I know, I was joking. Hence the " ;) "... ;)

Oh, and SurfDaemon!

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How about Arc, TomGibbons, Slaine, rjlohan

Wow... now that's some name dropping there Hack... Have you been hanging out with Mr. Peabody and the WABAC machine?

-tg

Even I am often astounded at the things I find in my memory. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by honeybee

Dennis, Kowan, Jethro, DragonFly ... *sigh*

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Jethro and Dragonfly currently hang out at the newly revived MangoJacks...

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Originally Posted by InvisibleDuncan

Jethro and Dragonfly currently hang out at the newly revived MangoJacks...

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I wondered where they went. Thanks for this...perhaps I'll swing by and say hello. :)

And, speaking of the old days, remember these folks: Behemoth, beachbum, Wally Pipp

Oh yes, I remembered beachbum, but forgot the others you have mentioned, Hack.

It feels almost like family.








An insane one.

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Yeah, but everybody needs to have a crazy uncle in their family.

Its the law! :D

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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

I was a lurker for a bit before registering

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And again for several years after registering.

I still talk to TomGibbons on MSN sometimes. He says you're all losers.

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Originally Posted by wossname

And again for several years after registering.

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Lurk no further! I am here!!!

I yearn for a worthy beard.

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Originally Posted by Hack

When you give a negative rep it takes your total rep points and divides that number by 2.

Then that number is multiplied by a factor of +1 for each year you have been a member of the forums then subtracts your age.

Then that number is added to your good cholesterol count, subtracted by your bad cholesterol count and multiplied by the square root of total numbers of years of higher education that you have completed.

By then it has completely lost track of what it is doing and just gives the member a positive rep of 2 points.

And now you know the rest of the story.

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I just had a douglas adams flash back

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Originally Posted by wossname

I still talk to TomGibbons on MSN sometimes. He says you're all losers.

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meh. You say it too

Yea... while we were all busy making quip remarks to each other... some kid came up with the idea of a social networking site where he and his friends could keep track of each other and just by the luck of the gods - made millions in the process.

Not that I'm bitter or anything... I mean I always have my chit chat memories. I'm a little bitter.

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Originally Posted by nemaroller

Yea... while we were all busy making quip remarks to each other... some kid came up with the idea of a social networking site where he and his friends could keep track of each other and just by the luck of the gods - made millions in the process.

Not that I'm bitter or anything... I mean I always have my chit chat memories. I'm a little bitter.

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Yeah, if we had a "like button" instead of a rating button, we'd all be rich...

Chenko.... Anyone mentioned him?

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Wut? :D

I once had a history of being banned frequently. :bigyello:

without NoteMe, Mendhak and Wossname, vbforums is not the way it used to be

Nope, and I also feel Im the only game expert in these forums =/

If I post a game related question it rarely ever gets answered.