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Reputation on this forum gives you a great idea of what people like. However, as a high-rep earner (through many, many posts), I can say that it quickly becomes tedious to discover WHERE your rep is coming from.

Please not that these features I'm describing would be best in a table format, rather than full posts. Something like 50 rows, with post link, reputation amount, post date, etc. Possibly as 1 new "tool" that is in a new page rather than in the "reputation tab" (you would use this to get there, however). For simplicity, let's call it the "Reputation Analysis Center".



The biggest cause of this is that the rep chart is sequential to either when you first posted a post, or when you first got rep on it (I'm not sure which), but the point is that if you get more rep on an older post, there is no way to tell without drudging through a bunch of other posts.

Perhaps the most useful tool would be more sorting options for viewing gained rep, particularly sorting by greatest reputation. This is useful when you get tons of +1 posts and you want to see the posts that got you more rep. For the purpose of this feature and simplicity, this mode could discount +1 posts, or possibly a user-defined threshold (such as 5). This is because the entire point is to see the most repped posts, while the lower amount it is, the more you will have of that value.

Another useful tool would be rep gained this day/week/month. Given the time frame, it would show you not only the posts (linked to only) that you have gained rep on recently, as well as how much was gained. So say if you had a 20 rep post, and you gained +3 this week, that what it would say if you were in "reputation gained this week".



These features would be useful because it would allow users to have a better understanding of their positive impact of their own posts. This would allow them to see in much greater detail than the current system.

If it's too intensive on the server, this could possibly be limited to ONLY users using it for their own posts. Also, it could be enabled per-user based on reputation, such as at 100 rep theReputation Analysis Center itself (with greatest reputation sorting unlocked), at 200 rep "reputation gained today" is unlocked, at 300 rep "reputation gained this week" is unlocked, and at 500 rep "reputation gained this week" is unlocked. Or something to that effect. You could also make the feature opt-in, and then users who do this will need to wait a while (say, a day or two) the server sorts the users information (at which point they'll get a notification or something). If it is still too intensive, having the reputation requirements higher will ensure that less users are opted in, and thus less reputation needs to be sorted/watched.

EDIT: Also, it would be nice if all of the reputation numbers were links that show you who gave you the rep. Currently even now, in the "reputation received" place the numbers aren't clickable to see this, but if you go to the actual post you can click the rep number to see.