All the new members are set to receive 10 points by default at sing up, and they will have a rep power of 1 at sign up, however all the imported users from the old forums were starting out with 0 rep, so 0 rep power as well.
What I’ve done is went through a thread and gave a base rating to every member in here, all of which I consider active members. That will give you a base line that’s higher then a new member and a bit of an advantage.
Some quick facts. (up for change if some items are undesirable)
You are set to give 10 reps a day max.
You have to give rep to 20 people before giving to the same person again, to prevent abuse.
Every 365 days on the forum increases your rep power.
Every 2000 posts increases your rep power.
Every 10 rep points (iirc) increases your rep power.
This is a good start and keep in mind nothing is set in stone.
this is shift, your logical methods are not welcome here.
srs though, if some rep happy homo gets neg rep then I’ll bet anything neg rep is returned and that defeats the purpose of the system. What if the rep happy homo has a ton of positive rep… then his lame retaliation will really effect the other person. I don’t think it’d work if it wasn’t anonymous