in reply to Gaining & Losing Experience?

It's "XP" not experience ;-) it's made up, like mana. Think of it as karma if you prefer.

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Re: Re: Gaining & Losing Experience?
by hossman (Prior) on Feb 10, 2002 at 11:07 UTC
    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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        What do you mean by "A loss of XP is getting your name on the board"?? TIA
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