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...Replying in a thread that's two days old will hardly give you any XP, no matter how good it was...

Maybe you should only be given XP as a voter when voting on nodes that are at least 24 hours old? Maybe that would encourage looking through the Monastery for old nodes that may be applicable.

Similarly, maybe you should only be able to get XP as a voter on one node in a thread. As soon as you have voted once on a node in a thread, you will never get XP for a vote on another node in that thread.

Liz

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Re: Googlish approach to voting/XP?
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Aug 07, 2003 at 13:54 UTC
    Too artificial, and there's still an initiative to vote. Perhaps if casting a vote would cost you something. Money, XP, a pound of flesh, or something. Then only posts you really care about you would vote on.

    Abigail

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      I'd wager virtually nobody would vote. The only exception being if the benefits of receiving a vote outweighed the costs of casting it, in which case small groups would agree to upvote eachother's posts. You'd also have more problems with multiple account sign-ups just to upvote nodes.

      If you want to make vote's more valuable, simply decrease the supply, then most people would use them more carefully.

      Or you could just get rid of the whole silly system. Or make XP private. Or forget about the whole thing ;-)

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