Your Reputation Score

The number beside your profile is your reputation — a running measure of your contributions to the FourFork community.

How you earn reputation

Reputation grows when you contribute things other cooks benefit from, for example:

• Publishing recipes that people cook, save, and review well
• Writing helpful reviews after actually cooking a recipe
• Contributing real-kitchen measurements and voting on ingredient conversions
• Adding step timings and other community data that makes recipes more reliable

What it's for

Reputation signals trustworthiness. Contributions from cooks with a track record carry more weight in community data, and your score is visible on your profile as a badge of participation.

Can reputation go down?

Removed contributions and reversed actions can subtract the points they earned. There's no penalty for simply being new — everyone starts at zero and builds from there.