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BillH:

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I'm relatively new here, myself, having just joined about 6 weeks ago. And I have learned that votes are good. In fact, a few of us were just chatting about PerlMonk's experience point system in the thread A Cautionary tale for Newbies “Monks don’t bite”. (I haven't done a Super Search on it, but I suspect that there are just short of a few billion threads about the XP system. One day, when I get bored, I may look 'em up!)

I don't know how long I've been on Slashdot, but I've only done 5 posts in the last 5 years. Here, the voting/XP system makes interaction a lot more fun, and eminently worthwhile. With contributions like the PScheme stuff, you'll do quite well!

--roboticus

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Re: RFC: Almost a Book
by jonadab (Parson) on Apr 16, 2006 at 18:02 UTC
    I haven't done a Super Search on it, but I suspect that there are just short of a few billion threads about the XP system. One day, when I get bored, I may look 'em up!

    Do yourself a favor: don't.

    Most of them consist of newish users arguing, often quite strenuously, that their (sometimes rather harebrained) ideas for how to improve the XP system should be implemented, and the people who have been around for a while explaining why it either isn't practical or wouldn't be that much of an improvement. (Occasionally a good idea is suggested, in which case sometimes it is implemented (usually by tye), and sometimes not.)

    Most of the rest of the XP threads consist of people (presumably people whose nodes got downvoted) complaining that everyone should not downvote them, but reply or /msg them instead. If I never see that particular complaint again, I shall consider the PM reputation system to be a success.

    Sanity? Oh, yeah, I've got all kinds of sanity. In fact, I've developed whole new kinds of sanity. Why, I've got so much sanity it's driving me crazy.
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      There's also the occasional interesting analysis of the psychology of the voting system itself, which usually gets mistaken for a complaint about downvotes and, as a result, gets downvoted mercilessly. Those are pretty rare, though.

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