vbExperience!

Had some time today so thought I'd add a new mod that I'd heard quite a bit about called vbExperience.

You will see some new info (bar graphs/etc) under peoples names or when you click on their name in the postbit area. A summary page is available below:

Gamers Underground - Ranking

What is it?

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vBExperience is an advanced Level and Activity System with Shop and Awards. It will calculate an activity and experience score for every user based on their activites on the forum. Now your users will see how their level is increasing by participating on your forum.

This mod was developed by me because I was never satisfied with the post count. Communities are not only defined by post count, they need much more parameters: Are the postings the user creates helpful? Are his threads frequently read? Does the user participate on the community by posting pictures, attachments, leaving visitor messages, tagging threads? All this can be answered with this mod.
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There are mainly four things visible for the users: The users score, his level, his next level up in %/points and his activity in %.

Calculation of the score
Taken into calculation are these things:
Threads
- Created threads
- Thread views of own threads
- Thread replies of own threads
- Thread votes of own threads
- Thread tags (vBulletin 3.7)
- Replies to own threads
- Sticky threads

Posts
- Created posts
- Views on attachments

User
- Days since registration
- Referrals
- Received infractions
- Reputation / Use of reputation system
- Visitor messages on profiles (vBulletin 3.7)
- Members of own social groups (vBulletin 3.7)
- Albumpictures (vBulletin 3.7)
- Friends (vBulletin 3.7)

Misc
Additionally there is support for 3rd party addons:
- Post Thank You / Use of Post Thank You
- thanks via vS-Hide Hack Resurrection (Expanded Edition)
- LDM Links and Downloads Manager
- DownloadsII
- PhotoPost Gallery
- vBulletin Blog
- Who Downloaded This Attachment?
- Cyb Paypal Donate
- AWCoding-Donation System LITE and PRO (via addon)
- ibProArcade Highscorer Points (via addon)
- v3arcade Highscorer Points (via addon)
- PhotoPlog 2.1 (via addon)
- QuoteIt! 3.16 (via addon)

Additionally you can install these modifications:
- Thread Necromancer: Gives (minus-) points when a user is posting in old threads. Contains also Thread Necromancer Award.
- Scrupulous Poster: Gives points for editing posts. Award users that are editing own posts instead of doing double post.
- Deletion Addicted: Gives points when an user/nod soft-deletes post, thread, visitormessage, groupmessage or picturecomment.

I'll be playing around and tweaking with it so any suggestions let me know.

OD

hah cool :)

now everyones e-penis is on display?

milenko will probably love it

... because you know, he loves penis.

bleh

how the shit do you score points

Quote from paladin;355420:
how the shit do you score points

Gamers Underground - Earn Points

From above link ;)

(FF3.1b1 ftw btw)

ah awesome. time to start redcarding everyone until i win.

Woot i got the social award :P

I got the 'hyperactive geek' award.

Makes perfect sense.

:P

whore-yay for new random stuff

so GU has now become a mamorpager (See Zero punctuation for spelling)?

sweet. who wants to dual?

Edit: Some cool facts

"Anonymous" is 3rd and max level

Coco is max level and hasnt made one post in a year and 3 months.

The system went back and calculated everything from day 1.

Yeah i figured, and the man does deserve awards, just thought it was interesting :P

forget coco, mortar rates a mention on the statistics page... second in 'per day'.

how the **** does that work?

Kinda wanky, but kinda cool. I like it. :)

Although too many people are too close to max level, or max level. Need to up the requirements!

hmmm... i can see now that i really don't contribute much to the GU goodness (I abuse GU... I feed upon your GU'dness, yet seem to refuse to contribute in return)... time for me to start adding random stat padding comments....

hey, we couldn't get an user cp option in the settings to disable it from showing?

test

woah, prepare for incoming spam!

Just recalibrated the levels of everyone to make getting to the top just that little bit harder.

I barely exist, I'm devastated.

man, all this has done is make rec start spamming out useless threads with attachments...

Pfft, I do that all the time anyway.

yeh, but after this thread your amount has increased to uberGMuselesslevels.

Interesting you lose ponts for thread necromancy - cool.

hmmm can there be a option to disable it in user CP.. Good to see we trying new things tho.. :)

It appears that I am the only one who HATES it.

Its too distracting from what the main focus of the pages should be i.e. the posts.
Can users turn it off so we don't see em?

Made it a lot smaller and cleaner now - that suit everyone?

Heaps better Dan. You are hax master (either that or just really good at changing settings). :P

Quote from ResLo;355538:
It appears that I am the only one who HATES it.

Its too distracting from what the main focus of the pages should be i.e. the posts.
Can users turn it off so we don't see em?

your definately not the only one who hates it, it will turn into a big spam and banter fest like gotgames did when they bought in the rep system

Quote from insidious;355571:
your definately not the only one who hates it, it will turn into a big spam and banter fest like gotgames did when they bought in the rep system

It's simple - anyone who spams I add to the "Ignore User" part of the config - problem solved. Let's not look upon new things as negative unless they actually become that way.

Can we win a prize where we can turn off the profanity filter in the control panel?

Quote from OverDrive;355573:
It's simple - anyone who spams I add to the "Ignore User" part of the config - problem solved. Let's not look upon new things as negative unless they actually become that way.

fair cop, i will gove it a chance, but i dont dislike it coz its new i dislike it from experiance

dragons poster thread is this forums version of bradmans stats. everyone else can only dream

yeah, you obivously get heaps 'o' points for uploading pics, and that motivational thread is huge.

yay im on the list.

We've always encouraged attaching rather than linking anyway - it means the images are here to stay forever, even if they're removed from the original source.

It also means people have to be registered to view it, which means they accept the forum's terms and conditons. Ie; an unregistered stranger can't stumble across something potentially offensive or otherwise "illicit" without entering into an agreement regarding the use of the website.

I'm sure if a lot of you attached instead of using img and media tags to embed them you'd have a heap of points from it too.

Moral of this rant? Attach images fucen.

Quote from OverDrive;355545:
Made it a lot smaller and cleaner now - that suit everyone?

Looks WAY better.

Quote from rec;355598:
We've always encouraged attaching rather than linking anyway - it means the images are here to stay forever, even if they're removed from the original source.

It also means people have to be registered to view it, which means they accept the forum's terms and conditons. Ie; an unregistered stranger can't stumble across something potentially offensive or otherwise "illicit" without entering into an agreement regarding the use of the website.

I'm sure if a lot of you attached instead of using img and media tags to embed them you'd have a heap of points from it too.

Moral of this rant? Attach images fucen.

you mean, when it works :P

It only stopped working for a few days - if I had made Dan aware of it earlier it would have been fixed earlier. :D

mm interesting, looks kinda cool :)