the only part of the system I don't like is the inflationary nature of the punch power that skews the rep meaning that our rep totals effectively double every four weeks.
This means that all of the rep you have accumulated in your entire time on the board, will now be achievable in just a month. Then within say 16 weeks all the rep you had just 4 months ago over 3 or 4 plus years on the board you could get in a single rep click.
It's a bit silly I think but the actual rep idea I really like. I do love reading my rep comments and sending them, and overall it's a good system.
The cc/sc system wasn't really open to abuse as there was no inflationary aspect to it.
If you got a coolclick 3 months ago it's still worth the same today.
With this new system you basiclly have to be repped every day else you'll fall hopelessly behind.
Take Wacko, under the old system he had so many coolclicks he could have left for two years and only a couple people at most would have caught him, such was his contribution to the site.
Under this new system he left for 3 months and we had people who had only joined the site in the last couple months with a higher rep than him.
That's what forces the repping in the first place, if you don't give out rep and make sure you recieve rep you fall hopelessly behind as your rep total diminishes in worth with every successive week.
We are now at the stage that a new member could join today, recieve one rep click from myself and have more rep points than the most senior member on the whole site had when we started out.
In another couple months we'll be handing out close to 100,000 rep per punch, and around 100,000,000 by Christmas. I know by then you'll have changed things around though![]()
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