smaal question

[mikeike12]

Ok so on the UCP main page there is a recent reputation points area with green squares for gained brains and red squares for lost brains, but what do the grey squares mean?

ps on the topic of brains, best answer gets [brains]

[Phantom]

Ok so on the UCP main page there is a recent reputation points area with green squares for gained brains and red squares for lost brains, but what do the grey squares mean?

ps on the topic of brains, best answer gets [brains]

this should be in the question section, so I'll move it there.

For the answer, each one of them is worth 0 brains, so...I'm not exactly sure, but my guess is that these people don't have enough "reputation power". shri046 explained that here:

I'll try and explain this as best as I can.

The image above shows you the reputation settings that we currently have setup. The above settings determine how many reputation points you can give to another user (positive or negative).

Now for the case that you said - you recieved +3.4 for your post. First thing is that the number of points we display on each post is divided by 10. So in reality you recieved +34 reputation points ..... that divided by 10 is +3.4 that is displayed on the forum post.

Coming back to the +34 that you got .... as you can see from the image the maximum number of reputation points that anyone can give is 10 (maximum reputation power allowed). So 3 people who had maximum reputation gave you +10 each so that accounts for +30. And I say this by looking at the logs that tell me all reputation points awarded. Every moderator and admin has access to this information. So it is not an assumption.

Now that leaves us to only account for the remaining +4 rep. One of the user that gave you reputation was new on this site. At the time that they gave you reputation they were signed up on the site for 1 day, made 3 posts and had not received any reputation from other users on this site. So again referencing the image I posted above you can calculate that particular user's reputation power (at the time they gave rep) -

User had 3 posts so that is 3 reputation power.

Been a user on the site for a day so that's is 1 reputation power.

Add those two their reputation power (again that is how much rep they can give) at the time they rep was 4. The user gave you a positive vote and you got a +4 bringing your total reputation for that post to +34.

Had the same user given you a negative reputation you would have recieved -4 instead of +4 so your total reputation for that post would have been +26 and not +34.

I hope that explains how the reputation system works. I have tried to cover all conditions and scenarios but if you still have any questions regarding the reputation system please feel free to ask.

so going along with that, if the person hasn't posted or been a member for a day at least, he would have a "reputation power" of 0, and could therefore give you a maximum amount of brains of 0.

[Phillips455]

so, If youv'e been here for a day, you have the rep power of 0.1 brains

every post will add 0.1 brains to that,

If someone where to give you a brain, then it would add 0.1 to it,

If you stay another day, you add on 0.1 brains power

so lets say you have been here for 2 days, have 3 post and 10 brains

so its 0.2 + 0.3 + 0.1

so if you thumbs up a person, then they would get 6 brains, or +0.6 thats is shown on the post

[mikeike12]

OK i get it thanks [brains] for both once it recharges

edit: thanks for da [brains]