Indeed. I started playing on E2 a couple of weeks ago. I thought it was a brilliant stroke of genius for someone to have come up with the site, and was really happy. This week I'm seeing the flaws. I don't mean this as a specific attack on Everything (which I'm thinking about using one of these days) but about flaws that hopefully Perl Monks will avoid.

Everything's biggest problem is that it requires writeups to gain level. Also 2XP per writeup, but this is virtually trivial. This encourages people to write crap, since you gain XP just for noding. Perl Monks avoids this, and will hopefully continue to do so.

E2 (and PM) has reputation without qualification. I mean that you give it the same points for being funny or useful. Slashdot definatly got it right by giving meaning to the rep (Funny, Insightful, Troll) and we would do well to copy that. I'd like to be able to see the scores separatly (unlike /.), so a post could have a Funny-5 and a Useful-10 or something.

Getting to vote more than once on a node. I think we should be able to give a node as many points as we have levels. So, being level 2, I could vote something +2 points. This has the advantage that a REALLY USEFUL node would fly up as people tried to exhaust all their votes for the day. I imagine this will be difficult at around level 4 or so. This also allows our Saints to really bless something without actually blessing it, or whatever powers they might have here. People would be encouraged to post real quality to get people to spend more of their precious votes on their node.

This is good even for non-karma-whores. It's just nice to be appreciated. Writing a good node (sorry, I'm in E2 mode) feels good, and having it appreciated is even better. I don't know if this would solve the problem of people spending more votes for funny things or not, but if we separated Funny and Useful (and however many other names) then it would be better. OK, I'll add more as I think of it.

In reply to Re: Re: Step into the Confessional by Lexicon
in thread Step into the Confessional by OzzyOsbourne

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