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RE: Experience System

by perlmonkey (Hermit)
on Apr 27, 2000 at 04:37 UTC ( [id://9353]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Experience System

Yah! Just like that lazy bastard merlyn!

(Um ... that was a joke)

Basically I disagree. Getting experience for voting adds just enough motivation to the process for people to actually participate. And the more participation the better! Otherwise it would be like US presidential elections where not even half the population votes! And voting on comments should be no where near as significant, so the incentive is fun to have.

Also having good ideas and recognizing good ideas are totally seperate concepts. A newbie might not have good ideas or at least not be able to explain them, but they should be able to recognize (and vote on) good ideas or good explanations. And they are gaining *real* perl experience for thinking about the responses. It makes sense to give monk XP for that I think.

It seems fair to give a 33% as btrott said, but definately keep some percentage.

Actually I think it would be good to increase the number of votes. I see a lot of people I would like to vote for that have very good ideas but I only get so few votes. But I guess keeping the limit as it is makes you think a little harder about who you vote for or against.

That is my 1/2 a cent.

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RE: RE: Experience System
by kryten (Scribe) on Apr 27, 2000 at 20:21 UTC
    I think experience for voting should be retained.
    It is nice to have a site that can value the participation of those who may not be so vocal, and allow them to feel more an active part of the site.

    I am not a great fan of the bonus for unloading all your votes in a day. Some days, I just do not read enough good posts. even with rewarding good questions as well as good answers. (not because there arent any but because I do not have time) In this situation it is tempting just to throw votes at anything just to gain more XP, but I manage to resist. It would be better just to give out the 75% per vote.

    While we are talking about the XP system, I don't like the inherent randomness of it. Just give .75 XP for each vote cast and be done with it. (Yay determinisim!)

    If anything I think the experience gained from posting is too much. Experience gained from a post should be soley tied to the reputation that it recieves. Thus useless posts that stay at 0 gain no XP for the writer.
    As it is I could go round posting "me too"'s to plenty of articles, which doesn't really add anything to the site, but each would gain me +1 XP.

    Overall I think it is good that this site has things pretty much under control, and we can just sit around quibbling about refinements. We probably should make the most of it before we have to spend all our votes -1'ing hot grits :)

    As a side point, it is interesting to note people's arguments and compare that to their number of posts :)

RE: RE: Experience System
by cciulla (Friar) on Apr 27, 2000 at 04:54 UTC
    I don't know about increasing the number of votes -- I find it hard enough to find five things worthy of my vote. :)

    However, the basic premise of granting experience for voting encourages new monks to seek out new nodes and to boldly go where... Ahem...

    But, then again, if monks just vote to vote...

    I better stop now -- this smacks of recursion.

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