Recently two posters who had around 100 points rated up one of my posts (thank you by the way). And I got +3 for each vote up. Which I thought was weird. On the old site, a +3 vote up was because the poster had significantly more points than you. Not because you had a significant number of points.
Any chance, we can change back to the old way?
Did your actual total rating actually go up by +3, or does it only say +3 on your history?
A user's impact on your rating is effected by their existing rating, as far as I know. However, when they rate you, it always shows up as +3 on your rating history (due to a bug) and as +3 on the green pop-ups.
If I rate you up, you get +4, but it'll show as only +3. (+4 is the highest, as far as I can tell). I mentioned in another thread that when a user with zero rating rates me up, I get +0. Although, oddly, in that case, it actually shows up as +0 instead of +3. 
Watch:
I chose a random user who I know makes friendly and helpful posts:
I uprated that random user with +4 points:
But it shows up as +3 in his rating history:
(pardon the blatant and uncalled for flattery, I'm just trying to be humorous 
)
I think I got a +5 once but I'm not too sure. We should ask Hodgman to experiment once he hits 10k points. Which should be any second now o.O'
Thanks for the observation, Servant of the Lord...I kept thinking "wait...didn't I get more than +3 reputation for that?" and it made me wonder if I was starting to become obsessed with getting more reputation, causing reputation hallucinations 
logging in falls under "participation"
How does simply logging in fall under participation? All you're really doing is just viewing stuff unless you upvote/post something, right? "Lurking" isn't participating in any discussions.
logging in falls under "participation"
How does simply logging in fall under participation? All you're really doing is just viewing stuff unless you upvote/post something, right? "Lurking" isn't participating in any discussions.
I dunno, that's just the way points are broken down. I think the goal is that it (hopefully) encourages people to come to the forums more regularly (but yeah, you don't really have "participate" as you say).
(pardon the blatant and uncalled for flattery,
I think it was very called for, lol :D
I think I got a +5 once but I'm not too sure. We should ask Hodgman to experiment once he hits 10k points. Which should be any second now o.O'
Just ticked over to 10001 
damage is still +4 (and reported as +3)
