irokin

Trader Rating: Your trader rating is calculated from the ratings that others leave for you. The value ranges from -50 (worst) to +50 (best). Everyone receives a +0 rating if they haven't been rated yet. The value isn't a simple average however. When you leave a rating a weighting for that rating is calculated based on the amount of time you have been a member. When you are a new member you will have a very small weighting power. When you've been a member for as long as I have you will have almost the maximum weighting power. The reason for this is to combat people signing up fake accounts and rating themselves highly. In theory genuine ratings will outweigh the newbies rating. How is the weighting calculated? Well, up until you've been a member for about 154 weeks your weighting increases pretty much linearly (though it isn't 1 weighting point per week). Once you get to 155 weeks as a member your weighting power switches over to a log scale. This essentially caps your weighting power while still allowing it to increase slightly though not as fast as before. This prevents one person from gaining a weighting power thats excessively high. We store all the raw data necessary to recalculate peoples weighting in case we decide to make drastic changes to the weighting system. From there to calculate the rating is fairly simple: First we add up everyones weighting power. Then we calculate each submitted weighted rating: (weight*rating)/total weight And then simply add all of those together. I should also mention that theres some rating damping if someone receives very high ratings as their first few reviews. This goes away once you've had a few more ratings submitted. Risk-o-meter: Basically the risk meter attempts to establish how potentially risky it is to deal with this person. The key thing to remember when looking at this value is that it is just computer calculated. The computer has no way of judging the character of this person so we have to give it numbers to look at instead. The algorithm I've written takes a bunch of data from the forum and attempts to profile a person based on roughly the profile most scammers appear to take. Now this does not mean that a low value automatically means someones a scammer. It does mean that, to the computer, this account shows a profile that is possibly like a scammers account. Its not fool proof, at all. You should ALWAYS ALWAYS use YOUR judgement!! I cannot stress this enough. As a persons account profile looks less and less like a potential scammer account the system improves your Risk-o-meter rating. Things that affect your Risk-o-meter rating: The amount of time you've been a member. This is pretty much the biggest non-rating factors that will affect your Risk-o-meter rating. If you've only been a member for a short period of time the system penalises you. As the time you've been a member increases the penalty becomes less and even positive when you've been a VERY long term member. The only way to affect this is time, so don't stress about it. Your post count Yes you receive a small penalty if you have a low post count and a slight boost if you have a very high count. Hopefully this doesn't encourage spamming or I will have to warn you (see below). Your Warning level You receive a penalty of 10 for every warning you receive meaning that if you've had the maximum 10 warnings you get a risk rating of 100 (the worst). So, don't spam or be a dweeb. Your user group This only applies if you're an Admin, Mod, Bad Trader, Suspended or Banned. Admins and Mods get a risk rating of 0 because they're so awesome. Conversely Bad Traders, Suspended or Banned accounts receive a risk rating of 100 because obviously they've done something very bad. Your Rating This is (currently) by far the easiest way to improve your Risk-o-meter rating. Get good reviews from your trades and the Risk-o-meter will give you a good risk rating. If I find people consistently abusing the system I'll reduce the power of this to improve your rating. Future additions Bump penalty bot: This will be a robot that scans the for sale areas for breaches the bumping rules. It won't remove your post but your RATING (not risk rating) will be hit with a penalty. I haven't decided how much the penalty will be yet but it will be fairly hefty so something to avoid at all costs. ...

Goddamn I hate the ting tings!

ROH made a similar style as well. Not sure what they called them.

Heres the disclaimer while I'm working on an explanation of the system. How the ratings and risk-o-meter are calculated are relatively complex but how you leave feedback as an end user is pretty straightforward. Theres nothing you need to know to start leaving and receiving feedback aside from how to get to a persons feedback form. To get to the there you need to click on the persons info box which will take you to their overview page. At the top of the page you will see a link titled "Leave feedback for this user here" follow that and you're there. UPDATE: Juicy stuff in the next post down! http://www.rollaclub.com/rating/index.php?a=disclaimer

:y: Never stopped wreckers selling them though :dance:

http://au.sports.yahoo.com/motorsport/news...ned-f1-new-boys The sooner he f@$ks off from F1, the sooner it can actually do something to improve.

Just a settings mismatch from Members and Regular Members groups. Because your group changed automatically you got stuck with the new settings which were 0. Fixed now :dance:

Do you really think thats appropriate?

ROFL....thats never good

Can I suggest you don't get cross drilled. You really don't gain anything from it except for an excellent crack propagation site.

MMM I Looooove astroturf ...not Proprietors name: Graeme Fisher Registration email: fishersinoz@<removed> Astroturf probability: 99%

Mmmmm I could listen to that induction all day. Heres an E30 in its natural environment: I'd kill to drive that car!

I've re-hosted all the images in our gallery in case photobucket dumps them like they usually do. http://www.rollaclub.com/board/index.php?a...q=sc&cat=17

Its possible but I think an iphone kind skin would be easier. I know it does look like arse on the iphone.

I'd strongly encourage you to get a genuine one. Buying rip offs does not support the innovator and does not create new products. Besides you'll get a better product anyway. Companies that make their business in knockoffs are slowly killing the aftermarket performance parts industry.

Mr widescreen? :P Theres usually a banner there but its vacant at the moment. I think it'll look like arse if its centered but I agree it is rather barren over that side as it is at the moment.

Whoa hold the cavalry, who said I liked it? I just thought it was bullshit that a lot of them were flagged off compared to some of the other shite thats allowed. Fken fundamentalist christians are pwning youtube.

*sigh* network issues this time.

Should be fixed, hosts on the ball today!

Disk /usr/tmpDSK (/tmp) 100 % Disk /tmp (/var/tmp) 100 % Well theres your problem...

Interesting, I'll have a look into it.

Do they have wifi or are you still using the mobile network?

If you wanna email me a zip of all these images, I'll host them here for posterity. Photobucket is rather notorious for deleting them after 90 days of inactivity which is kinda lame. irokin at rollaclub dot com

:jamie: dangerous much?