EARN awards for improving reputation scores
as a New Year's Resolution.
This offer is to members with reputation scores below 11%
See the added offer to all members below.
as a New Year's Resolution.
This offer is to members with reputation scores below 11%
See the added offer to all members below.
You can always see your own reputation score by dividing your total number of reputation points by your total number of posts and reading the results as a percentage.
The primary purpose for your reputation score is a guide to let you know how you are doing. If your score is low, it is telling you that you need to do better. If you have a reputation score above 10%, you are doing just fine but you should always try to improve.
Each member contributes content at their own rate. Those who actively try to provide new and unique educational content with every post tend to collect more reputation points for their efforts which results in your current reputation score. If you even collect just one reputation point for every ten posts you end up with a 10% Reputation Score.
Avoid multiple posts in a few favorite topics. You can read the number of your own posts in any topic near the top of every topic page. If you have contributed more than 10 posts to a single topic, you are risking duplicate content and may not be contributing anything new. There are usually well beyond 200 topics that have had activity in the latest week. Participate in many topics, not just a favorite few.
Please make sure every post you contribute to ForumCoin adds value and avoid useless content that does not add any value to the site. Make sure you always contribute unique and new educational content. The more high quality content you contribute, the more reputation points you will receive.
Low quality content affects us all as it fills the site with junk content. Low quality content drives the site to a lower position with the search engines and that directly affects advertising revenue. If you do not have anything new and informative about the topic, it is better to not post anything at all. We have all taken a recent hit due to the high volume of junk content showing up on the site.
Join the effort to earn a raise for us all. Avoid junk content. Work to improve the quality of your content to improve our search engine placement and a subsequent increase in advertising revenue so we can all get a raise. Give out positive reputation points when deserved if you read content and learn new information on the topic.
The challenge and awards:
For those with reputation scores below 11%
For those with reputation scores below 11%
Always contribute new and unique educational content with each post. Make sure every post deserves a positive reputation point. As your content improves, you will gradually see an improvement in your reputation score.
I have recorded your current score for a starting point as of 12/24/23. Each time your score goes up by a full 1%, I will send you a 10 FC award until your score is above 11%. (I usually see it before you do) Continue to work at improvements.
For ALL members:
If you successfully raise your score to above 30%,
I will send an additional award of 50 FC.
These award offers are valid until I run out of funds.
Make it your New Year's resolution.
To all members: if you read content and learn something new, be sure to give it a positive reputation point. Please participate. No one will win if you don't give out positive reputation points when deserved. If you see junk content that adds no value to the topic, use the exclamation point in a triangle at the upper right corner of the post. That will send a report to the administration for them to determine if it deserves a negative reputation point with at least a 1 FC penalty or perhaps a complete ban and will help rid the site of junk content.
Every member should make giving out reputation points when deserved as part of your site participation.
No one wins these awards if you don't do your part.
Do not give out positive rep points for junk content.
Report them.
No one wins these awards if you don't do your part.
Do not give out positive rep points for junk content.
Report them.
Background details:
Many older members may recall my time as a site moderator and previous activity in offering awards for site accomplishments. Newer members know nothing about my past activity. Reading test: Before you post anything here, copy and include this line in a pm to me for a 5FC award. Exception: No award if you have posted anything here before receiving your award. 1 offer per member.
Too many members don't seem to understand the value and purpose of the reputation scores. Many simply don't believe the accuracy, since they are at the whim of other members.
I have been studying the site statistics almost since I joined ForumCoin. I have reviewed the site activity of every member from the beginning of the site. I update the statistics every day as my own participation on ForumCoin. I just happen to enjoy studying statistics as a personal hobby. I have personally observed and documented the astounding accuracy of the collective opinions (via Reputation Points) of the entire community about the quality of the content coming from each member. Even though reputation points come from members at random, they tend to accurately reflect the quality of the content coming from each member as compared to all other active members.
Those who are providing high quality content are receiving a lot more reputation points overall. As of the latest recorded data (December 23, 2023) with a total of 1076273 posts, there have been a total of 79574 reputation points given out, or just a 7.9606% overall average reputation score for the entire history of ForumCoin.
When you actually take the time to review the content of any member, you can see that the reputation scores do actually reveal the overall quality of the content. They are indeed surprisingly accurate.
Those who spend a lot of time in the Games have very low reputation scores because they are not given for games content. It is still quite accurate because there is no value in games content. They are not contributing high value content and end up with very low scores.
Reputation score stats:
As of December 24, 2023, 92 members contributed content to ForumCoin in the latest 30 day period.
30 members have falling reputation scores. all with far below average reputation scores. 5 of them have contributed well above 10000 posts.
23 members have improving reputation scores. These are still all with well below site average reputation scores but at least they have been showing some sign of improvement.
The rep score rating “titles” are my own invention as I track the details for all members. They are not official ForumCoin titles.
Currently active members with well below site average reputation scores:
3 with Negative reputation scores. 1 with well over 1000 posts
5 with zero reputation scores; 126 or less posts
18 with (0.22% to 1.92%) 1st grade reputation scores; 1 with over 20,000 posts; 7 with 1169 to 9495 posts, almost all with continuously falling reputation scores
6 with (2.07% to 2.97%) 2nd grade reputation scores; 1 with 29226 posts, the rest with 9 to 130 posts
4 with (3.41% to 3.82%) 3rd grade reputation scores; 1 with 36849 posts, 1 with 17754 posts, 1 with 15506 posts, others with 305 to 592 posts
7 with (4.01% to 4.97%) 4th grade reputation scores; 1 each high volume posts 25982, 16660 and 10476, others with 69 to 2435 posts
3 with (5.09% to 5.88%) 5th grade reputation scores; 1 at 1375, 1 at 1265 and one at just 17 posts
4 with (6.52% to 6.99%) 6th grade reputation scores; with 1 at 24448, 1 at 17609, 1 at 601 and 1 at 343 posts
5 with (7.09% to 7.98%) 7th grade reputation scores; with 2780 to 8123 posts (All have falling reputation scores)
The current overall site average reputation score has fallen all the way down to 7.9606% as of 12/24/23
That is 55 (59.78% of all) currently active members with below average reputation scores. Note the number of members with an extremely high volume of posts and extremely low reputation scores. Quantity does not equal quality.
Although all members with very low reputation scores are contributing to the dropping score for the entire site averages, those with a high volume of junk posts are the primary problem members who are dumping a high volume of junk content on the site that drives advertisers away; lowering the pay rate we all receive.
Members with Average reputation scores
4 with (8.09% to 8.91%) 8th grade reputation scores; 1459 to 7389 posts
4 with (9.12% to 9.82%) 9th grade reputation scores; 94 to 5101 posts
2 with (10.40% to 10.68%) 10th grade reputation scores 1592 to 2674 posts
1 with (11.52%) an 11th grade reputation score; 816 posts
That adds up to just 11 (11.96% of all) currently active members with average reputation scores.
When I began recording site data in 2018, the overall site average reputation score was 11.5%. That was the average for all members for the history of the site.
Members with above average reputation scores
There are 5 members with "fluke" high reputation scores. Far less than 100 posts and an unusually high number of reputation points. High scores are not yet earned with less than 100 posts.
2 with (12.06% to 12.5%) 12th grade reputation scores; 8 to 141 posts
4 with (13% to 14.47%) College reputation scores; 155 to 31510 posts
5 with (16.37% to 19.67%) Educator reputation scores; 1111 to 14584 posts
7 with (20.27% to 26.22%) Professor reputation scores; 74 to 16202 posts
7 with (30.38% to 66.67%) Genius reputation scores; 13 to 4096 posts
That is just 26 (28.2% of all) currently active members with well above average reputation scores. Only 4 of them have contributed more than 10,000 posts
