Reputation bottles?
 

What at those little reputation bottles on your right of the post? Plus how do you earn those?

Well, when you see someone who makes a very good, helpful, or thoughtful post, you go to the little exclamation mark next to the report post button. You can add a little comment in, and they get a few reputation points. As you get more reputation points, the amount of bottles increases. Basically, you will earn them if someone thinks your post was really good. A mod could probably explain it slightly better though.

Those reputation bottles are exactly as you said mate, reputation bottles. They're part of are reputation system here on POF, which you can read about extensively in this helpful guide. (Or below, as I have quoted the section pertaining to Reputation.)

A small change to what the guide says, you can add to a users rep by pressing this button: http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/f...reputation.gif Also, we only allow users to give positive reputation, and only Evil Kid Bugs has negative reputation... silly little rabbit. Lastly, it should be noted that there are a few rules about reputation, which although are rarely an issue, go for all of the sites.

Jack, I don't exactly understand the different types of bottles, other than the disabled rep one. If you don't mind, could you quickly go over what each type of bottle means in a little more detail, and how you can give a certain one?

Sorry :P Thanks in advance.

Wow, never knew it got put on a thread! I was wondering how you get these.

There is no particular way to give a certain bottle, but rather it all depends on your reputation and reputation power.

Your reputation determines which bottles will be present on your userinfo.

• After 5 positive rep bottles you will start gaining highly positive rep bottles instead.
• Likewise, if you are really evil like EKB, you will start receiving highly negative rep bottles after 5 negative rep bottles... but no-one else is that evil.
• If a users reputation balances out at 0, the user will have balanced reputation.
• If a user has turned their reputation off, it will show as disabled.

The more reputation you gain, the more bottles you will receive and the higher your reputation power will become. People with higher reputation power have a stronger influence when they give a user positive rep. Now, as for what the specifics are for a user to gain a new bottle and for their reputation title to change, those are shrouded in mystery... but really, I do not know.

Would it be perhaps after 100 reputation points that you get another bottle? /shrug.

Thanks Jack, that clears it up.

Here's a link to my old reputation thread where I asked a similar question.
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/f...883#post235883

Um.. quick question about rep again...

So, I noticed that when I hit 1,000 posts and I went to my recent rep gained chart, it showed something like this. It said +k and N/A for the thread. I think I got 50 rep from it. Do you get 50 rep points for every 1,000 posts then?

And yes, I know not to give spammy posts just for rep if this is true. :)

Also, is there any way to get negative rep bottles? Like if EKB were to give me rep? And if I got a negative rep bottle would that take away from what rep I have right now?

Sorry, I think I asked about 5 questions xD. I'm just curious to know.

There are ways other than having someone rep you, to obtain reputation points. Not something that we advertise for reasons like you stated above. Someone goes on a rampage posting spam posts and they could obtain additional rep for this, for example. But the more you use the forums, the more rep you can obtain..is all I'm going to say about this topic.:psmiley35:

Only POF staff members and evil bunnies can give negative rep. Negative rep is very rarely given. Begging for reputation from others, is one of the few ways to get negative rep points. Becareful of what you ask for..:laughks2: To obtain a negative rep bottle, your rep would have to be below -10. Right now, I'm sure you are in the positive points. So all those would have to be negated by negative rep before you could get the negative bottles.

Wow.....this is all good to know...thanks for asking Titanic!
I often wondered what all those rum bottles meant.

I also would like to know how you go about the number of postings?
How you get that number? And where do you post? Sorry for being stupid on this stuff...

Number of posts? I don't see a limit on that, and where do you post? Well you just posted right there! ;)

Ok so I got a reputation point but it came in the form of a Blue Bottle. I know that means balanced, but I don't really get what it truly means. Thanks.

EDIT: Wait, never mind. I figured it out. :D

http://i27.tinypic.com/rtjjno.gif Balanced = Didn't have enough rep or dereps to effect your reputation either way.