Re^8: Notification of XP increase has gone wild (maybe)

Ah, I understand. The intent of my earlier message was: changing the economics to fix one type of abuse will not stop the underlying problem that there will always be someone finding a way to abuse the system.

I assume also that only a very small proportion of users seek to abuse the system; in that case, every time you tweak the system to close down another possible route of abuse, the collective impact on non-abusers is far greater than that on abusers.

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Re^9: Notification of XP increase has gone wild (updated) by LanX (Saint) on Oct 26, 2022 at 11:30 UTC
> very time you tweak the system to close down another possible route of abuse, the collective impact on non-abusers is far greater than that on abusers. In general yes, in this case no. It's pretty easy to decide. The gods could do a SQL query to see how big the percentage of monks is with high proportion of archive votes. I bet this will mainly show two° groups, potential abusers who practically never post, prolific members who don't care if they loose the gratification factor after let's say x=40 archive votes per week (or 160 per 4 weeks). Just ask someone like eyepops - an outspoken "archiver" - if he would care ... :) Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the 𐍀𐌴𐍂𐌻 Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery} °) well three, I forgot about choroba ;-P	[reply]
Re^10: Notification of XP increase has gone wild (maybe) by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Oct 26, 2022 at 12:43 UTC
Just ask someone like eyepops - an outspoken "archiver" - if he would care ... :) I wouldn't care ... might even enjoy it, even if I lost XP (as sometimes happened in the good old days when casting too many dog-votes against you-know-who :). Generally, I agree with the approach being advocated by LanX in this long thread.	[reply]