Rivem
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Confirmed on the rep points (not power):
Absolute max is signed long integer (32 bit) with 2.147 billion cap as Curtis and I had said. Reaching this point will apparently freeze your rep counter with no rollover.
Presumably, the Rep power could be the same cap or higher since it's unsigned, but every situation vBulletin allows puts it at a much smaller number. Here it's divided by 100. If there isn't a freeze of the reputation power at 65,536, the max is almost definitely going to be 21,474,836. There may be some odd programming though. Look at the discrepancies between rep power and rep points.
As for the main issue, I'm still in the "change it" camp. Not sure exactly how would be best though. Most of us are sharing opinions based in our biases as longer-term users, but the effects on newer members are arguably more important for the health of any online community.
One other option that hasn't been discussed is to remove both the rep stats from the sidebar and just have it in the user profile.
The green bars are also absolutely worthless with reps regularly as high as they are. They're pretty much a visual representation that somebody is over some now small number of rep points. It's not going to show anything different for pretty much any member that isn't deep in a negative rep hole. Look at the member that was recently hit hard by neg reps.
Absolute max is signed long integer (32 bit) with 2.147 billion cap as Curtis and I had said. Reaching this point will apparently freeze your rep counter with no rollover.
Presumably, the Rep power could be the same cap or higher since it's unsigned, but every situation vBulletin allows puts it at a much smaller number. Here it's divided by 100. If there isn't a freeze of the reputation power at 65,536, the max is almost definitely going to be 21,474,836. There may be some odd programming though. Look at the discrepancies between rep power and rep points.
As for the main issue, I'm still in the "change it" camp. Not sure exactly how would be best though. Most of us are sharing opinions based in our biases as longer-term users, but the effects on newer members are arguably more important for the health of any online community.
One other option that hasn't been discussed is to remove both the rep stats from the sidebar and just have it in the user profile.
The green bars are also absolutely worthless with reps regularly as high as they are. They're pretty much a visual representation that somebody is over some now small number of rep points. It's not going to show anything different for pretty much any member that isn't deep in a negative rep hole. Look at the member that was recently hit hard by neg reps.
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