Member Reputation System

The Code Project was created to enable software developers to help one another. The more members help one another, the more they help build and shape the content of The Code Project, the higher their reputation.

Our reputation system allows members to be awarded by the contributions they make.

Below is a list of the events that improve or diminish a member's reputation. How many articles, how many tips and tricks, how many questions answered, how many edits they do and, most importantly, how other members have voted for those activities. The more articles posted, and the more other members vote for those articles, the more a persons 'Author' reputation increases. The more a member's reputation increases within a given category, the more their votes count towards other members when voting on items within that reputation category.

For example, a member with a high Authority ranking (someone who answers a lot of questions) but a low Author ranking (they don't post many articles) will have their vote counted strongly when voting on answers, but not so strongly when voting on articles.

Some actions have a daily or total maximum number of times it will be counted towards reputation. Signing in, for instance, means you are visiting the site, participating, reading other member's articles or messages and generally being involved. This is important, but having this contribute to your reputation is limited to once a day. If you sign back in later in the day you do not gain further reputation.

Also note that some actions require a member to have a certain number of points before they can carry out the action.

Points are updated immediately after the respective action is performed. Some pages, however may cache points such as the reputation graph on the member profile page. This page in particular only caches the graph for as long as you remain on the same page, whether or not you navigate between the tabs. Navigating away from and back to the page should refresh the graph.

Member Levels by Reputation Type

The following tables describe how member levels (gold, silver, etc.) are tied to each reputation type. I.e. how many points are required to attain a particular level for a particular reputation type. We use these levels to grant certain priveledges on the site – such as the ability to edit or delete questions & answers.