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Reputation is designed to show off and reward creator behavior here at XNA Creators Club Online. Specifically, we want to reward the members of our community that really contribute and make it work! Those with the highest reputation are the Creators who actively answer and ask questions on the forums and give constructive feedback in Playtest. Premium Creators who submit games to Playtest before Peer Review and who submit games that pass Peer Review are also rewarded.

We’ve been tracking your Reputation on XNA Creators Club Online for some time in preparation for this new feature, and that’s how you have the score you do today when we launched the Reputation system. If you’re a brand-new Creator who just signed up you start at zero – time to get to work!

You’ll see some new features on our XNA CCO Forums that can help (or hurt if abused) your reputation.

Questions and Answers in Forums

In all the forums, other than Playtest and Peer Review, you will now have the option to mark your post as a question. When you or a Moderator recognizes that someone has provided you with an answer to your query you can mark it as the answer. This button is accessible only to the starter of the thread, the moderators and the administrators.

This is what the thread starter, the moderators or the administrators see	Everyone else sees this

You can then mark the status of your thread as answered or not answered.

And it will be reflected in the forum list!

Feedback in Playtest

Now, Moderators and Forum Administrators have the option of marking feedback given in Playtest as “Good Feedback” You will see this reflected on the post like this:

Other Activities

These are just some of the things that will improve your reputation:

Forum Reply	You reply to a thread started by another member.
Forum Answer	Your reply is marked as the answer to a post.
Mark Forum Answer	You mark a post as the answer to your question.
Playtest Submission	You submit a game to playtest (initial submission only).
Indie Game Passes Peer Review	Your content is approved in Peer Review (initial submission only).
Peer Review Game	You approved or rejected a game which was ultimately approved or rejected overall.
Playtest Feedback	During Playtest you provide feedback which is identified as being constructive and helpful.

The following can result in your Reputation dropping:

Indie Game Taken down	Your game is taken down or revoked.
Approved Bad Game	You approved a game that is taken down or revoked.
Temporary Ban	You are banned for a finite amount of time.
Falsely Marking Posts	Misrepresenting/Gaming the system by marking things inaccurately
Forum Post Deleted	A forum post is deleted by a moderator, with decision to penalize the author of the post.

We can also award and penalize Creators due to behavior on XNA Creators Club. It is important to remember that most people here want to have fun and make great games. Keeping a healthy sense of humor is important and so is being respectful of everyone else.

Xbox LIVE Indie Games only works if you participate. Those with the highest reputations are those who are helping out in Playtest and Peer Review, those who offer sincere questions and share what they know with the entire community. As ever, the amazing MVPs will be out there looking to help. You’ll notice that some profiles now identify certain people as an MVP or a member of Team XNA. Your reputation will also show up with your profile so take care with it!

You’ll also notice the new box on our home page that says “Top Movers” – these five Creators are those that have been the most active and that updates every 24 hours. Note that it isn’t based on who has the highest overall reputation, but who has the most positive impact in the past week.

However, for the first week this feature is live (7/23/09-7/30/09) those top five in the first week are the Creators that have been the superstars since we launched. They deserve a bit of time in the spotlight! After the first week we should see the Top Five Movers change daily!

This Reputation system is brand-new for us – it will probably take some tweaking as we go. We’ve got a few ideas already on ways we hope to improve it, but it is your feedback that is the most valuable to us.

Feel free to share your thoughts and ideas in the forums or email us directly at creators@microsoft.com!