> 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 ... :)

°) well three, I forgot about choroba ;-P

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