clraik Rank

[Mama Bear]

The General Discussion and Real Life Situations threads can be good places for this as well. If you're making meaningful contributions that are well reasoned and respectful, that gets noticed. If it seems like a half-assed post count/rep grab, then people will recognise it for just that. But I'll often +rep people who I notice making intelligent input around the place.

[My name is Yoshikage Kira]

I've gotten rep despite mostly participating on the "Who/What grinds your gear" thread. I think being a respectful, participating active member goes a long ways that someone will notice when you least expect it.

Agreed!
Posting there is where I've gotten some rep from
There is a ton of potential in making guides. Guides don't always have to be neopets related, there are other discussion sections out there. You never know what someone is going to appreciate you making a guide for.

[Painwheel]

That's why I enjoy CK. It made myself a better person. I went here with the purpose of using programs, scripts and other kind of tools, but I ended up staying because of the community. The guides here are awesome and made me achieve things that I wouldn't imagine to reach, like Plushie Tycoon guide from Unown. Because all this stuff, I went to help other persons with their needs when I can and that's an awesome thing, because I'm helping someone!

The rep thing is important. It values your participation in the community. And even if you don't want or are shy, you can pay VIP, that will also help the community. After all, most of the communities has hierarchy and this one isn't different. Everyone can reach a higher hierarchy, it's just about being active without spamming and helping our mates. Surely someone will REP+ you one day. And as many said before, REP+ people that helps you, they'll be happy and further can REP+ you back if you do something good.

That's the purpose of a community: engage and help each other!

[BubbleBass]

This at least showed me I need to be Rep-ing more. I'm quick to hit the Thanks button but always forget that Rep exists. If anyone's worried about not getting enough, maybe we should look out for one another and remember to actually use it? Or it could just be me who always forgets about it and I'm talking to myself.

[Guil]

case in point, i just repped some people on this thread who i have seen around and have been having good convos on the neopets users that get under your skin thread. enjoy people!

i think theres a large group of people who a lot of thier clraik time is that thread, if we all just award people who are contributing, even with good screens/PSAs/general posts on that thread it can help everyone!

[♥ corazon ♥]

I will admit, although I am disappointed, as I will be among those who will go back to newbie rank... I do appreciate the safety measures this will provide to all of us as a community. I guess I will just have to earn my way back to rank. I’m kinda bummed I didn’t take advantage of some of the perks beforehand. I kept putting it off. Haha. That’ll teach me and my professional procrastination skills.

[BubbleBass]

case in point, i just repped some people on this thread who i have seen around and have been having good convos on the neopets users that get under your skin thread. enjoy people!

i think theres a large group of people who a lot of thier clraik time is that thread, if we all just award people who are contributing, even with good screens/PSAs/general posts on that thread it can help everyone!

Absolutely. I spend a lot of time there enjoying the bullshitting and memes and just forget Rep is a thing. You'll be seeing a lot more of it from me.

[MadameNova]

No, you're not (talking to yourself).

I've had problems with it in the past and I think I have to turn off my adblocker or something to use it, so I stopped thinking about it.

Plus, confession time: when I did two reps for two different people and got auto-directed to the repping rules the next time I logged in, I thought it was because I was repping incorrectly and quietly being scolded.

[Unown]

• Offer news and updates to any of our various forums; create an exceptionally engaging topic of discussion: it would have to be pretty spectacular news and I'd have to get there before several hundred members on this site.
  I've put up news that I've found on other sources of information (Facebook/Discord/Boards) which weren't huge main-page news and they've received rep before from people who found the information useful. And not everyone on our forums posts news.
• Provide support for programs and scripts created by other members: I can't code, so I can't provide support.
  Neither can I. But people have gotten reps before for testing/making suggestions for new scripts etc. It's all about if what you have done has contributed or helped someone.
• Amend or update a guide created by other members: (*looks at the guide page*) Can't provide anything new there.
  To be very frank this is just untrue. If you put in the effort to search for content not covered yet on ck and for the amount of content you can talk about on neo, this is just untrue. My guides didn't just come up because I'm good in those things - but I took the time to research on the certain topic, compile information and thereafter share this information with the members here.
• Code, design or draw something for another member: I have no coding or artistic skills.
  Neither do I, and have not tried in this so I can't comment.
• Lend any commodity to trustworthy member(s): I don't have any of those
  Neither do I, and have not tried before so I won't comment.

All the reasons that you've made are pretty much just excuses for being lazy to me. I created my account in March, and by June/July I had hit ocK and now I'm 5 rep points away from tcK (250 reps) because I've put in the effort to search the forums and look for various things that have not been covered so I can research on them and cover them through guides.

Let me just put it this way, I still have around 8 ideas for guides and content regarding neo that have not been covered on the forums as of yet. I haven't had the time to get around to writing those guides, but there are still ideas and opportunities out there if you actually take the time to look for it.


MAYBE, if I'm super lucky: price-check a commodity for another member, help another member with a problem, create a new auto-buyer list


When last I engaged with the community, I made a stupid decision, got banned and now the member in question won't stop talking about it three years later.

And now that I've admitted that I've been banned from here before, I'm probably going to be rebanned, so the problem of rep is going to be moot.

If you've rectified the problem for getting banned in the past, I don't believe you're going to be banned again (unless of course, what you did deserves a permanent ban.

That being said, contribute to the community because you want to. Because if you're contributing just for the reps, you're going to feel bad and get stressed up when you don't get reps. If you're really that hard up for the rank just to access programs/scripts, then shell up the $5. A month's subscription is cheaper than a meal at a restaurant.

I'd just like to say a few things with regards to your points above.

Points in red italics made by me.

[Da Plushee Boree]

The thing is to be a contribution to the forum and help protecting it, my paranoid ass has been watching a lot of new users that can't even reply their own "hi" board, but 100% trust that Joe and our mods are doing their best to make the comunity secured. And it feels. I love it here and respect the mods

I don't have code skills either, and barely take the time myself to draw a thing, but i know i can contribute. News don't need to be about neo, but about everything while in the correct topic and if i'm helpfull enough i could be +repped. I don't need to code to test programs and find important bugs or conditionant for them to work properly. Probably i would never write a guide unless it is for arts, but maybe it is fun/engagin enough. I mean, there's a wonderful guide about sammiches over there...
The thing is to participate... I mean.. I was full lurking from outside until a couple events ago (specially it hurt when i didn't get the 1mil ub and was online), then i got that mania of click in the 'new posts' link and see where can i help? what can i say to make this better? who can i welcome? etc.

This is for the wellness of our comunity so i think it's for the better... Without CK, Neo could be the most lonely place on earth for some of us..


I was so surprised i didn't rank down, thank you and kisses to all