(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Before I start this thread, theres a few things i'd like to say. Firstly, this is all my own words and if not i will quote and give a reliable source to the site/person it is from. I am not asking for rep in this thread, I am informing people on the meaning of reputation.

How Reputation is seen on NextGenUpdate
Reputation plays a big role on the NGU side of things, its what keeps most users going. Although it may only be numbers and stars at the side of the screen, it means a lot to many people. Some users only post to receive reputation from others.

You can tell if somebody is liked or not from their reputation; Via the Post count/Reputation ratio. Of course, like in real life there are the high rollers who have high street cred, such as Dopey and Cpt.S. But what confuses most people is people asking for there reputation to be deducted, and want to hit Minus rep.

Reputation seems to go up in a positive correlation with post count, meaning the more posts you make, maybe the more reputation you will gain. Unless your name is Shiver and have 100+ Posts and 7k+ Rep :p

How is Reputation seen on FaceBook/Social networking sites
Reputation on social networking sites such as FaceBook is seen using the 'Like' button which corresponds with NGU's 'Thanks' button. People post, jokes and other comical stuff which all try to attract attention, some succeed in this, others don't. I think the only reason social networking sites don't have a 'islike' button is because it could put someone off posting what they think.

How Reputation is seen on Wikipedia
Reputation is the opinion (more technically, a social evaluation) of the group of entities toward a person, a group of people, or an organization on a certain criterion. It is an important factor in many fields, such as education, business, online communities or social status. Reputation can be considered as a component of the identity as defined by others.

Reputation, as distinct from image, is the process and the effect of transmission of a target image. To be more precise, we call reputation transmission a communication of an evaluation without the specification of the evaluator, if not for a group attribution, and only in the default sense discussed before.

Online reputation is a factor in any online community where trust is important. It affects a pseudonym rather than a person. Examples include eBay, an auction service which uses a system of customer feedback to publicly rate each member's reputation. Amazon.com has a similar reputation mechanism in place and merchants develop their reputations across different dimensions.

How is Reputation seen on Dictionary.com (Reputation's Definition)
Quoted from Dictionary.com
1. The estimation in which a person or thing is held, especially by the community or the public generally; repute: a man of good reputation.
2. Favorable repute; good name: to ruin one's reputation by misconduct.
3. A favorable and publicly recognized name or standing for merit, achievement, reliability, etc.: to build up a reputation.
4. The estimation or name of being, having, having done, etc., something specified: He has the reputation of being a shrewd businessman.

Through-out online communities such as NGU and other forums, it is what seems to keep the forum alive. I hope this thread has opened your eyes into how much reputation means to some people. Of course, theres always going to be the rep whore who tries to add a sarcastic comment in a thread trying to attract rep, but thats life.

Thanks, Oink

rep means nothing, but its just something nice to have.
Thats at least what i think.

I also only see stars and bars

dont agree with that
long before PS3 lobbies we're possible i was editing GSC for xbox patches. I figured out other stuff for myself, 11th hack MW2, leaderboard hack.
Got my first gold star 18th Dec 2010 round the time of the CFW noobs, where then i made all the edits to mossys patches people liked.

I do like the high rep power, but even it was was reset i would continue to help the community. The best forum i know of.

I totally agree, you cross someone with high rep, boom they -rep you even if it was totally unnecessary. Ya the copy and paste threads are annoying, but whats even more annoying is the people who complain about them. "Omg another c/p, your ruining NGU let's take back general discussion." If you hate them so much, DON'T FUKING READ THEM. They are pretty easy to spot.

Another thing about rep that pisses is me off is when people do absolutely nothing except post sarcastic comments about your thread. Someone spends a bunch of time on a good thread that one person will thank, and then someone will post a sarcastic comment about some mistake in their thread and get repped up the butt. I'm not saying this happened to me or anything, but I see it a lot. If they see that the person has high rep, then they're like, "Oh they must be right I should thank them." And if anyone feels the need to -rep this post, it just even more shows the immaturity I just specifically talked about.
/rant

Reputation on here is corrupt, for example this situation.

Say someone is 500 points from their star, what are their options?

1) Be helpful
2) Make decent/funny posts
3) Make a good/Useful thread
4) Asslick people like dopey

And what do they choose 99% of the time? Asslick dopey.

Rep is just a means of unknown members to feel good about themselves also.. lmao.

The worst thing about rep is when members join and asslick everyone, gain say 2000 rep then scam people because they seem so trustworthy, this happens often and it's extremely annoying.

oh man that pissess me off the most on SB (totally unneccesary shoutbox comment) "OMG guys I'm only 500 rep away for my next star" in other words "just rep me guys"

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you speak the truth my dude

Couldn't agree more! :y:
To many 'rep whores'

Rep abuse = S.B.

+122 to the first person to:
Guess my 1st name,
SBPM me,
Shout **** is my bitch,

Now there is some merit based repping...

First person to post a VM....... and shit like that annoys me so much!

I guess the blood rushing from the brain, to fill those big E-dicks, are effecting their ability to recognize sarcasm??

Derrick's reply to you earlier post:

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