Experience Points on Forum

[DarkenedSky]

I'm sorry if this is somewhere on the site that I haven't looked, though I did use the search and even checked the FAQ.

My question is a simple one, and so I'm hoping that it's easily answered. Exactly how is experience handled? I ask because every few days I post, I get some experience points and then from no where, with no negative actions against me, I lose a large chunk of it.

Here's an example:

02-05-2010
09:18 AM DarkenedSky has lost 280 Experience point(s)
09:18 AM DarkenedSky has earned 7 Experience point(s)

02-03-2010
09:18 AM DarkenedSky has earned 3 Experience point(s)

02-02-2010
09:16 AM DarkenedSky has lost 275 Experience point(s)
09:16 AM DarkenedSky has earned 2 Experience point(s)

Now, I don't see where I did anything to lose points, let alone get an infraction of any sort (which I don't have, unless this is the new way to do it).

Can I get a little bit of light shed on this, please?

[KuRIoS]

it doesnt do anything so dont worry about it

[DarkenedSky]

Ah, okay. Thanks for the heads up.

[XanTheMan]

on a side note, how does rep work? "how to raise rep(utation)" searches on the forum doesn't provide anything helpful, or understandable

[Seriouskip]

http://www.mmowned.com/forums/genera...-handbook.html

Find the section on "Reputation".

In short, reputation is a system where if someone helps you, posts something useful for you, etc. you give them reputation by clicking the blue "+REP" button on the post that you thought deserved reputation. Reputation is sort of like a measure of how much a user is contributing to MMOwned.

Also, don't ask for reputation when you post something.

[Zantas]

Depending on how much rep you have your rank on the forum will increase.

0-4 rep = New user

5-1x = member

1x-79 = Established user

80-300 = Contributor

300-600 = Epic

600+ Legendary


Depending on what rank you have you can rep more, give infraction points and access different parts of the site.

[Reflection]

Elite (not epic) starts at 325, not 300, zantas. The rest is correct though.

[Zantas]

^^

I only thought of purple and purple reminded me of epic
anyway I always thought it was 325, but I saw people writing 300 so often that I got stuck in my mind.