I have not ramped up my forum yet,,, have not even finalized my categories!! I'm going with the slow and simple approach mainly due to being very busy but I have many plans and revisions to come. Contests and interaction at a few levels will be a part of the future gustoes.com forum! However, for now, one little thing at a time.

Last week I enabled the vBulletin User Reputation feature. I've always enjoyed this option on forums that I visit and so now the gustoes.com forum is user reputation enabled!

What is it?

"User Reputation in its simplest form is a ranking of your user's benefit to your forum. Its basis comes from the opinions of all of your forum users that choose take part in it.

Users gain and lose reputation based on how their posts are scored by other forum participants. Users with the ability to affect reputation, will either give or take aways points by approving or disapproving with a post's content.

User reputation can be a derisive element of your forum so great care should be taken before a decision is made to enable it."

Read more here:
http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/main/reputation

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