Forum members' reputation

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I've been asked several times about the reputation system at Trans Ladyboy and about the way it works. Here's what a forum software manual says about it:

User Reputation in its simplest form is a ranking of your user's benefit to your forum. Its basis comes from the opinions of all of your forum users that choose take part in it.
Users gain and lose reputation based on how their posts are scored by other forum participants. Users with the ability to affect reputation, will either give or take aways points by approving or disapproving with a post's content.

Except for the number of green rectangles under your post count that all other users see, reputation also affects the number of pictures one can view per day.

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Here are current reputation level names (default from vbulletin) in accending order. I wish it was something more related to the forum's theme, but my imagination fails me..

User is an unknown quantity at this point
User is on a distinguished road
User will become famous soon enough
User has a spectacular aura about
User is a jewel in the rough
User is just really nice
User is a glorious beacon of light
User is a name known to all
User is a splendid one to behold
User has much to be proud of
User has a brilliant future
User has a reputation beyond repute

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Some people wrote that they can't view movies (I guess the swf), cuz they have not enough reputation. Does that mean, if I post some swf, that not every member can view it? Is that true?
There are no previews of swf, is it better to post a previw gif, so everyone can see what the swf shows, or describe the swf?

[just102]

what are the levels of rep then???

Ive seen comments from ppl that have 5 posts being able to see files

yet I have about 200 and still cant see them

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Originally Posted by Tread

Some people wrote that they can't view movies (I guess the swf), cuz they have not enough reputation. Does that mean, if I post some swf, that not every member can view it? Is that true?
There are no previews of swf, is it better to post a previw gif, so everyone can see what the swf shows, or describe the swf?

I can't even view swf. It may be just my computer settings. If possible please post as gif.

[just102]

I think somthings broken

[Tread]

If I click the swf a little window open and ask me if I want to download it or open whith my Firefox. It works only with downloading. Have you tryed this? Or does the window don't come?

There is so much color lost if I make a gif.

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