Enable the Reputation System. @Pugz,@Noble
 

https://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/...ons_reputation
@Pugz @NOBLE
You gain rep by posting/being a member every month etc. Or by other users adding or subtracting to your reputation. Make it so that you can use ur reps 3 times a day to rep/negate other people then it has to recharge. The more rep you have the more influence you have on other peoples. Everyone starts with 0, give mods/admin a lot of rep power as they SHOULD be the most responsible people of the site.
It's not a flat value, e.g. if I have 20k rep and i give/subtract from ur reputation you gain/lose 200 points or something.

This would be cool for the new black market section but will also be dope for the site as a whole.

Make it so u get 1 point of altering power for
1. every month(s) of membership
2. every 100,200,300,400,500 posts (pick one)
3.Every 1k reputation points you have

Not a bad idea

A good idea, in fact. @Pugz @NOBLE please let us know what you think about this. We need fresh functions for LB, this place is stale as fuck and no one can deny that.

As far as I am concerned, adding new features to LB is equivalent to taking an ugly, fat, old hog and applying a thick layer of lipstick on it. This site is running on software that's... what... a decade old? Somewhere in that area. Some features are newer than that but the core is more ancient than those spirit masters in occult lodges.

The site is noticeably slower than most modern forums. It doesn't feel slick, new, or interactive at all. It's undoubtedly insecure. Many links and features don't work. Guides written in the mid-2000's about aspects of the site that no longer exist are still among the first things a total n00b will find.

If you take a Model T and install a luxury audio system, will that make the car run any faster? Will it make it more fuel-efficient, or more comfortable to ride in? Will it increase the engine horsepower? No...

What LB needs is a complete overhaul. Don't add any new features. Just hire a professional web design outfit to come in and create a minimalist design that does everything it needs to, but no more. I'd advocate for updating the vBulletin software, but the modifications used for things like battling and voting are so extensive that doing this is probably impossible.

They don't need to code it, they literally just have to set the settings and enable it lmao

approve

Won't work. Points and ratings are tied into the rep system somehow. I asked X about this a while back.

ok. how bout a thanks button?

I have a feeling the rep thing won't work because of our star rating system which is tied to battles. Well, it's more than a feeling because I've actually tried to enable it on our test site before and it didn't work. A lot of features on LB such as the star rating system are custom hacks...they're not plugins that you can buy or download from anywhere else, and I think the star rating system is actually an alteration of the rep system that's built into VB so we won't be able to have both systems at the same time. That's just my guess from having tried it before, but I can ask X or Pseudo to see if it would be possible to get them both to work. I know that simply enabling it from the admin control panel won't work because I've done it before. You will see the bars in the post-bit, but adding rep to someone won't have any effect.
As far as the like button, personally I think it's kinda gay and is not really suited for the type of site this is. It's more suited for a forum where people ask questions and give advice and you can like their answers etc. It would be easy to add with a plugin. However, I'm weary of adding any new plugins to the site right now for one major reason. We usually test out plugins on the test site which is an exact mirror of this site before we install them. The reason is that plugins can sometimes be incompatible with other plugins or hacks we already have running and installing the wrong plugin can ruin a site. But the test site is on VB5 right now because we are working on the upgrade there, so I won't be able to test any plugins there in the meantime. Alternatively, in the meanwhile, we have the facebook like button in the first post of every thread. We can make it so that it's on every post and like posts that way if y'all want.

why don't we get rid of the star system then? I mean stars are derived from the ratings you get in battle correct? They are very inaccurate and serve no other purpose imo than just looking good