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Noob, rate down! Just kidding...

As far as I understand it, the rating system is supposed to show appreciation of part of this community for some posts and thus for their posters. It works as follows: posts can be rated up or rated down if they are considered good or bad (you can see for instance that your post is currently on "Good", which means that at least one person has rated it up). The ratings of the posts of one poster are then taken into consideration to establish a more global rating for the poster. This is reflected as a numeric average (used to show on the profiles, but I can't see them right now, maybe it is not visible anymore) and various ranges correspond to various titles associated to corresponding colors. Here are the number I think are accurate:

Excellent = 5.0
Good = 4.0
Decent = 3.0
Default = 2.0
Awful = 1.0

Karma below 3 = user. Posts are in orange.
Karma between 3.01 and 3.65 = scholar. Posts are in light blue.
Karma between 3.66 and 4.34 = sage. Posts are in green.
Karma between 4.35 and 5 = guru. Posts are in red.
Administrators posts are in maroon.


One last important bit: you can rate people up or down only... if you've got a rank yourself (scholar or more). Some might wonder how the first person got rated, kinda like the question of whether the egg or the chicken was there first... hehe... :)

nostra

Edited, Aug 24th 2007 3:21:07pm by nostraaa

Another important thing to note is that every time you post it takes your current karma and basically rates you twice with that current karma.

I.E. last time I checked I was at 3.11, meaning that I've made ~1100 posts at 3.11 karma, meaning that I've been rated 2200 times as 3.11.

Which is why when I tell people to go ahead and rate me down, I mean it. 2600 posts at 3.00+ karma means that they have very little chance in moving my karma unless they camp me for the next year.