A Question About Reputation

[Farael]

Originally Posted by symestreem

My next question is, how well do you think the reputation system functions at distinguishing senior members, specifically those who would be able to answer a newbie's questions? Specifically, in your experience does a high reputation necessarily equate with being a good role model?

In this forum, with the WereWolf phenomenum the rep system has been... bent a bit. Usually, lots of green boxes show insightful posters, or at least well-behaved ones. Yet at this point in time the amount of green boxes does not exactly relate to how good of a role-model each poster is. For example, I'm still rather new around here and yet I've mounted Tanquetil again. While I try to be as good of a poster as I can, I'm still fresh in some areas.

But overall I think that as long as it is not taken as gospel, the rep system is a good starting point to see whom to look up to.