Reputation Index

[Xenocidius]

Older members have more reputation and younger members have less - that seems to be the pattern on the forums, and it makes sense - older players have more time to gather reputation.

So what if we could devise a way to reflect a player's true reputation, regardless of age?

With this idea, I created Reputation Index.

First we must remove the reputation gained from posting topics and posts. The formula for this is:

Received Reputation = Reputation - 2(Number of topics started) - Post count - 100

You can find the number of topics you've started by going here (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=7520;area=showposts;sa=topics;start=0), then going to the last page and getting the number of the last topic in there (the first one you started).

The formula for calculating Reputation Index is:

Received Reputation / Number of Posts

Using this, I calculated the RI of Scaredgirl and the Global Moderators:

Scaredgirl
Reputation: 12676
Topics: 879
Received Reputation: 986
Posts: 9832
Reputation Index: 0.1

jmizzle7
Reputation: 3445
Topics: 50
Received Reputation: 169
Posts: 3076
Reputation Index: 0.055

Kael Hate
Reputation: 4923
Topics: 170
Received Reputation: 214
Posts: 4269
Reputation Index: 0.05

Higurashi
Reputation: 4250
Topics: 114
Received Reputation: 625
Posts: 3297
Reputation Index: 0.19

And, of course, who could forget my own:

Xenocidius
Reputation: 1225
Topics: 110
Received Reputation: 293
Posts: 612
Reputation Index: 0.479

Post your own reputation index here, and leave comments on ways to improve the formula.

This is the formula as it stands:

Reputation / Number of Posts

Using this, I calculated the RI of Scaredgirl and the Global Moderators:

Scaredgirl
Reputation: 12666
Posts: 9824
Reputation Index: 1.289

jmizzle7
Reputation: 3445
Posts: 3076
Reputation Index: 1.12

Kael Hate
Reputation: 4923
Posts: 4269
Reputation Index: 1.153

Higurashi
Reputation: 4246
Posts: 3292
Reputation Index: 1.29

It seemed to work fine, until I calculated my own:

Xenocidius
Reputation: 1214
Posts: 603
Reputation Index: 2.013

The formula calculated mine as being much, much higher than any of the others.

Judging from this, I'd say the formula is somewhat biased in favour of members with fewer posts.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to make the formula more accurate? It would be interesting to truly see some of the members with the highest relative reputation.

And, of course, feel free to post your own RI, so we can collect some more data.

[ddevans96]

Reputation: 4525
Posts: 3913
Reputation Index: 1.156

[Ryli]

2261/2059 = 1.098

[gumbeh]

And, of course, feel free to post your own RI, so we can collect some more data.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to make the formula more accurate?

Well my RI blows!

Perhaps you could use a nonlinear scale? For example, grading on a curve like certain professors. Or better yet, have the age of the account factor into the calculation somehow!

[Bootsza]

Judging from this, I'd say the formula is somewhat biased in favour of members with fewer posts.

I think you are right:

Bootsza
Posts: 255
Rep: 618
= 2.423

While I do not have a very high post count, I do try and post meaningfully.  Having thousands of posts is going to put a heavy burden on your rep count for the purposes of this calculation!

[willng3]

Note that for every topic started by a user, he/she receives 3 rep instead of 1.  I know that you've started quite a few topics in the Deck section which could help explain why there's such a great difference here.
Receiving reputation from other people also gets added to your rep which would mean that people who post meaningfully, helpfully, and less often than others will most likely have a higher RI.

And while we're at it:
Posts:  2921
Rep:  3479
Reputation Index:  1.19

[majofa]

Don't forget to include zanzarino:

Posts: 230
Rep: 48863
Reputation Index: 212.448

[Jocko]

Lol at zanz RI xD
I have 1.58 :/

[Tea is good]

3508/1061=   3.3063148

[Sevs]

IIRC you get more rep from starting topics and even more rep for every reply you get on a topic.  So Zanz creates a topic and gets 100 pages of response gets huge reputation for it and as a result have a mush higher "reputation index", while those who generally just reply to topics will be closer to 1.

[Jocko]

I wonder, is it possible to have less than 1?

[Calindu]

RI:1.326241134751773049645390070922