Reputation

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What is reputation?

Every nextstopper has a reputation score (which is visible on their profile page) that measures what other nextstoppers think of their recommendations and guides. Its a way of quickly determining how helpful a nextstopper's recommendations have been to others. To see the nextstoppers with the highest reputation scores, take a look at the Leaderboard.

How do I increase my reputation?

Reputation is solely a measure of what other nextstoppers think of you, so the best way to increase your reputation is to make high-quality recommendations and guides. When other nextstoppers "like" your guide, or "vote up" individual recommendations, you get more reputation.

If you want to make sure nextstoppers who you think might like your contributions know about what you've done, leave a comment on their profile or guide, start following them, or like a guide they've made.

How is reputation calculated?

The exact details of how reputation is calculated may change over time, but at present, you'll earn:

• 2 reputation points any time someone "votes up" an individual recommendation you've made (by clicking on the up arrow)
• 15 reputation points any time someone "likes" a guide you've made.
• A number of reputation points proportional to the number of recommendations you've made to a collaborative guide any time someone "likes" a guide you've collaborated on; for example, if you add 5 recommendations to a guide to give it a total of 10 recommendations, you'll receive (5/10) * 15 points, or 7.5--which we then round up to 8 reputation points--when someone likes your guide. [Note that all fractions are rounded up, and you will always receive a minimum of at least 1 reputation point for every like your collaborative guide receives.]

Unhelpful or spammy contributions will cost you reputation. You'll lose:

• 1 reputation point any time an individual recommendation you've made gets "voted down"
• 5 reputation points any time a guide or recommendation you make gets flagged as SPAM or Inappropriate.

In order to prevent brand new users who haven't yet contributed to the nextstop community from overly impacting the reputation of others, certain actions in the system require you to have at least 5 reputation points to perform, or simply don't impact the other user's reputation until such time as they have 5 reputation points. Sounds kind of complicated, but its basically to avoid people gaming the system, and we think makes reputation really mean something on nextstop.

I tried to do something, and was told I didn't have enough reputation. What gives?

In the nextstop community, your reputation counts for a lot, so we want to make sure that new or malicious users can't overly affect the reputation of other people. Certain actions that affect another nextstopper's reputation or have larger impact on nextstop at large can only be performed when you've earned a minimum amount (5 points) of reputation yourself.

The good news — if you're not a spammer or malicious user — is that its easy to earn the minimum 5 reputation points. Just make two or more quality recommendations and we'll make sure you get enough up votes to earn 5 reputation points. If you feel like you've done this and still don't have enough reputation, send us an email at feedback AT nextstop.com