How is posting an interesting link 'xp whoring'? I mean, if lots of other people have already seen it and its old, then no one will ++ them right? You are even free to -- them. That being said, what about those people who dont check 20 different news sites every day? I personally, generally find articles that are 'reccommended' by someone to be atleast mildly interesting, rarely are articles that are really boring recommended, think of it as kind of an 'editors choice' type thing. Making broad assumptions about all the other users, (possible) to their detriment, is bad.. That being said, i have two views on the idea of xp for sending in articles, one being that xp will encourage people to scour the web to find interesting and insightful articles to share with their brethren. The other view is that people will attempt to 'xpwhore' and post lots and lots of non-interesting articles (from whereever).