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I'm wondering why the reputation table has the reputation column defined as Bigint(30).... I've added two +ve reps to a user on my test forum, and each entry in the reputation column is 1, it's not cumulative. I changed the value to 100 in the DB but nothing seemed to happen?

What controls the reputation points? Does a user's ranking/group/posts affect how powerful a reputation point is (+/-)?

Well, the max amount of reputation you can give depends on your usergroup. For normal users it's 1 for Admins it's 5 etc...

If you just change the tables, indeed nothing will change. The board counts all the reps and stores them in a field in the mybb_user table everytime a user adds positive or negative reputation. The reputation in that field is the one shown on postbits.

Ah thanks. I understand now