I'll just clarify that the cap is the maximum amount of rep power that anyone can give. So if there was a starting value and we allow some +1's per something then the cap takes effect when the start plus all of the +1's add up to something more than the cap whereby it is capped off at the cap value.
so having "rep capped at 20 or 50 points AND you also get 20 or 50 points for every 100 posts" doesnt make sense. You can start with 20 or 50 points and have 20 or 50 per 100 posts capped at 100 or 200 but you cant cap at 20 and have any more extras to it. The cap is the limit.
Also for Azelor, yes the numbers are bigger but we have the situation where the current rep scores are in the tens of thousands up to 85,000 range. This is just where we are at this point and it would be very hard if not impossible to alter everyones scores to put them back down to small values again. So its a matter of awarding amounts of rep commensurate with the amounts of current scores we have right now to balance it all up. If we started it all again with everyone back to zero then we could easily have +1 to +3 but if some people have 52,000 or whatever then should we have everyone awarding only +1 and taking forever to get someone up one pip on the rep bar. The whole issue is how do we balance an amount of rep that makes people go up to nice values in reasonable times.
If people think that its alright to have everyone award +1 rep and also keep some members with many tens of thousands built up before we change the rules on how much rep is awarded, then thats ok if thats what we want. But the other option is to increase the starting rep amount and cap it off at some value so that newer members stand a chance of getting up a full rep bar eventually.
Bear in mind that the maximum number of posts that anyone has ever made is 11,000. If every post that member did was followed with a rep award then they would still only have half of their pips lit up. It would take a collossal effort for members to get any new person to a full rep bar with +1 only each time.
Perhaps the question to consider is how many times should a new member have to rep someone to fill their bar. And how many times should an experienced well respected member have to rep someone to fill their bar. The two amounts can be the same or different but right now they are about 1:1000 ratio difference and that is causing a lot of issues. I can be persuaded with a 1:1 or a 1:3 or 1:10 but beyond about 1:10 it feels to me to be a bit icky. If you want a new person to rep someone 1000 times to get another to full bar then thats 55pts per award. If you wanted them to take 5000 rep awards to get them there then thats 10pts per award. If you think experienced people should have 5x the rep award power than a new member and the experienced member take 200 awards then thats about 275 pts for an experienced member and 55 for a new member. So have a think about the numbers and vote accordingly.
Whats the starting award value, what kinds of things do you want to increase the award value by and by how much. And then whats the final cap / limit that nobody can exceed.
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