How exactly do users gain/lose Experience? I know gaining experience is pretty closely tied to having your posts recieve positive votes, but I didn't realize untill today that it was even possible for a person's experience number to go down.

From an abstract perspective, I find the concept hard to comprehend: How does one "lose experience" ?

(The (OBE) Voting/Experience Information section of the FAQ is a little vague on this.)

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Re: Gaining & Losing Experience?
by japhy (Canon) on Feb 10, 2002 at 02:38 UTC
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      BTW, why is it possible to ++ or -- an annonymous node... (back to sleep)

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      Zak
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Re: Gaining & Losing Experience?
by belg4mit (Prior) on Feb 10, 2002 at 02:39 UTC
    It's "XP" not experience ;-) it's made up, like mana. Think of it as karma if you prefer.

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    perl -pe "s/\b;([st])/'\1/mg"

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      It's "XP" not experience

      If people want to call it XP, or mana, or karma, or popularity, or "made up number that usually means you post a lot" that's fine by me -- but having it say "Experience:" to the left of "It" on your node implies that it has something to do with your "experience".

      Or am I just thinking crazy talk?

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        Well it's a form of experience. But roughly speaking what it really maps to is gold stars for participation &| good work.. A loss of XP is getting your name on the board.

        As for labels on the site, well you can find lots of interesting bits. stumbit, beans, link (more interesting for what it replaced), etc.

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        perl -pe "s/\b;([st])/'\1/mg"

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