Confused on Rep Points

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FullerH

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I know that I'm color deficient, but I can tell red from green from grey and would someone explain to me why a Super-Moderator such as Cougar Allen would have four red negative dots on his Rep Points location along with nearly 8,000 posts? This business of the colored dots is driving me buggy.
 
Um ... apparently you can't tell red from green. Those are green positive chiclets. If there's something very wrong with your monitor then it should show up whenever you look at anything colored....

If you put your mouse cursor on them you'll see (for mine, at the moment) "Cougar Allen is a jewel in the rough (250+)" -- so even if you can't see the colors you can see what the score is....
 
OK, Cougar, if those are green, then what are the other six dots on Spark's bar?
 
Cougar, I'm not trying to be a smart-ass. When I look at Spark's ID bar, I see 11 dots, 5 red and 6 green. Just for a reality check, the :o icon and the :mad: icon to the right of the reply posting page appear very red to me.
 
:confused:

Spark has 5 darker green boxes on the left (same color as everyone else's green boxes) and six lighter, brighter green boxes to the right.

Jeremy

Edit- the brighter green color looks to be the same hue as the little green circle next to the usernames of those online.
 
JR42 said:
:confused:

Spark has 5 darker green boxes on the left (same color as everyone else's green boxes) and six lighter, brighter green boxes to the right.

Jeremy

Edit- the brighter green color looks to be the same hue as the little green circle next to the usernames of those online.
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Yup....dark green to lighter green. That's what I see.
 
Ditto, and my color vision has tested out as perfect numerous times. Confusing.

Maybe it only has ratings (famous soon enough, distinguished, etc.) for five boxes' worth (dark green), and then the light green are just added to show more rep points?
 
It's got to be you, or your monitor. Definitely all green. I'm not colour blind, I'm a pilot, I get tested for that sort of thing.
 
Are the rules for rep points and the "chiclets" posted anywhere? I have tried searching, but apparently didn't enter the right question, and haven't gotten anywhere.
 
People keep asking about reputation points, so I found the thread that I think has the most information in it and stuck it to the top of the forum.
 
K.V. Collucci said:
Yup....dark green to lighter green. That's what I see.
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Ditto! Dark green to light. 5 and 6. I think Spark is low on uh.....spark. Either that or the LEDs on the right side are fixing to die. Worst case is Hugh has become immune to Spark's mind control and has revealed Spark's dark side. :eek:
 
Hi --

FullerH, have you ever been checked for color blindness?

http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/Ishihara.html

All Reputation points I've seen are the darker green ones, then, if there are enough of those, it switches over to a lighter shade/hue of green, then gray ones, and then red ones, as I have, as I'm posting this. As I've recently gone from one dark green to a gray to a red, over this past weekend, it was really easily seen. :D

I hope this helps,
GeoThorn

(In no way am I trying to be insulting, my best buddy is color blind and always has troubles with reds and greens...)
 
FullerH said:
I know that I'm color deficient, but I can tell red from green from grey and would someone explain to me why a Super-Moderator such as Cougar Allen would have four red negative dots on his Rep Points location along with nearly 8,000 posts? This business of the colored dots is driving me buggy.
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For those who seem to have forgotten, I noted up front that I have a color deficiency. I am not completely color blind in that I can tell some greenes, such as a forest green, from red but it is apparent that I have problems with grass green and red, especially in small doses.

Geothorn, my parents had one of those Ishihara books that someone had given them. I saw numbers in those damned dots that weren't even on the lists. I do know of one fellow who passed his entrance exam into the Air Force Academy back in the early days of that school by memorizing the correct numbers for each plate and then being able to parrot them back at the doctor. He then ran into the Honor Code and decided that he could not continue at the Academy and withdrew. That was the honorable thing to do, he was, after all, living a lie that could get someone killed. BTW, I assume that they have corrected the system to prevent that sort of thing from happening.
 
Oh, and if you want to talk about frustration, try this one. My Grandmother, born in 1876, decided one summer in the 1950s that I could be trained to see colors. She had me sitting in her living room by the hour, vainly trying to identify and match skeins of embroidery thread. God, but that was frustrating! My Mother, her daughter, explained to her that the problem was a genetic thing and that I truly could not see the colors.

AFAIK, it is genetic. It is a gene linked to the "X" chromosome, but it is a recessive genetic factor, so that it never shows up in females unless they have it on both sides. It must run pretty strong in my Mom's family for my brother and I are both color deficient but neirher of my sisters are.
 
FullerH, it sounds frustrating, all around.

If anyone has multiple reputation images/dots, they are all green. After the first five dark/forest greens they become more of a grass/lime green. When people have a gray reputation dot, their reputation is neutral, and that is a single image/dot. I've only seen one person with two red reputation marks, so, apparently, the red marks grow like the green ones.

GeoThorn
 
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