Most repped members on The Student Room: Nov 2014

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Reply 260

Kaiju

oh
wow

Reply 261

Everglow

Joint 13th. :cry2:

This is simply not good enough.

Reply 262

-Rainbow Drops-

No one reps my helpful posts. :frown:

They only rep me for the dumb **** I say :frown:

My life is so hard rn.

Reply 263

Balloon Baboon

Original post by -Rainbow Drops-

No one reps my helpful posts. :frown:

They only rep me for the dumb **** I say :frown:

My life is so hard rn.

Boo hoo!

Reply 264

-Rainbow Drops-

Original post by Balloon Baboon

Boo hoo!

You really need to stop stalking me. :erm:

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Reply 265

Balloon Baboon

Original post by -Rainbow Drops-

You really need to stop stalking me. :erm:

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I think it's the other way round :wink:

Reply 266

-Rainbow Drops-

Original post by Balloon Baboon

I think it's the other way round :wink:

Reply 267

Balloon Baboon

Original post by -Rainbow Drops-

Come on now, Raindrops. Play nice! :biggrin:

Reply 268

CJKay

Original post by -Rainbow Drops-

You really need to stop stalking me. :erm:

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You can use your ignore list to stop seeing his activity. :smile:

Reply 269

Snufkin

Universities Forum Helper

Original post by shooks

Have we? I'd agree that we've established some people think that is the case - but if you look at the posts getting repped, that doesn't stand up.

I am looking and it very much is the case. Just how are you measuring quality? I don't think memes, inane chatter, posts with just smileys, one-sentence posts or witticisms are quality posts. I don't have anything against them, but they don't contribute anything meaningful to the forum. Posts like that get a lot of rep, especially if they're in the Chat forum or in the first page of a discussion, but that isn't an indicator of their quality. Perhaps you should do a comparison with posts in the universities/study help forums and see just how many posts there get rep, the answer might surprise you. Even the very detailed and helpful guides with thousands and thousands of views get miniscule amounts of rep.

Original post by shooks

No, I don't agree. How many of the top 50 regularly post in the university/study help forums? Very few even though they are arguably the most important parts of TSR. I'm not sure what you think those links prove. All they’re telling me is that outside of the academic forums, as long as you post in the top half of the first page you will get rep no matter what you say. Couldn't you find examples where posts in say the 8th or 9th page of a discussion received sizeable amounts of rep? I bet you can't.

Original post by shooks

As I mentioned earlier, I definitely agree with the point people have made about better highlighting the contribution people make when they provide good answers to study help threads. In those cases, they tend to get only one or two reps because they're answering one specific person's question. That's something we're definitely going to look into a bit more, but it's outside the scope of this month's competition.

That's not to say they're only helping one or two people. Who's to say how many people who view a question thread find the answer helpful? And anyway, most people who ask questions never rep the people who answer them and if they do, it usually counts for nothing as they have no rep power because they're new users.

Reply 270

Arkasia

Original post by Samual

I think we have established that great posts do not get repped. Doesn't it bother you that almost nobody in the top 50 has posted anything helpful or even vaguely interesting recently?

Speak for yourself, unless you have read every post of every person in the top fifty?

I climbed that table so fast. I am ashamed :frown:

Reply 271

Four Queue

Where am I? I demand a recount. :fuhrer:

LOL

Original post by Samual

No, I don't agree. How many of the top 50 regularly post in the university/study help forums? Very few even though they are arguably the most important parts of TSR.

That would be based on the opinion of what's important by the user.

Reply 274

Snufkin

Universities Forum Helper

Original post by Balloon Baboon

That would be based on the opinion of what's important by the user.

This is a student website. Universities don't pay TSR for advertising because there is a big Chat forum or because the Religion forum is a hoot. It is the large academic/university/careers sections which distinguish TSR form other online forums and make it what it is.

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Reply 275

Balloon Baboon

Original post by Samual

That being said, not everyone here is a student or looking for acadimia or even careers advice.

Reply 276

Snufkin

Universities Forum Helper

Original post by Balloon Baboon

That being said, not everyone here is a student or looking for acadimia or even careers advice.

Of course and I fully accept that not everyone uses or likes the academic forums, but they are the heart of TSR (or at least they used to be). I mean, how did you find TSR? I found it through researching university and I suspect that is true of most users.