Spreading XP around

mach1.9pants · Jul 13, 2014

Do we have to? I mean when we have [MENTION=9849]Echohawk[/MENTION] putting out such awesomeness as the ENCyclopedia, I think the spreading of XP is a bit annoying. Not many posts deserve the XP like those, so I find myself giving XP for lesser posts. Can the numbers be tweaked? Or can that be turned off? How many do I need to spread before I can XP again?

Umbran · Jul 13, 2014

There's an unfortunate tendency for folks to form cliques that consistently give each other XP repeatedly. We are using XP to demonstrate how broad an appeal a person's posts have - a second and third and fourth XP from one person doesn't mean as much as a second, third, and fourth from other people. Thus, the need to spread it around.

mach1.9pants · Jul 15, 2014

Fair enough

Echohawk · Jul 17, 2014

Umbran said:
There's an unfortunate tendency for folks to form cliques that consistently give each other XP repeatedly.

While I sincerely appreciate [MENTION=55946]mach1.9pants[/MENTION] 's kind words, I'm not terribly fussed about XP.

However, I am now interested in how to go about joining one of the above-mentioned cliques. They sound like they could be fun, and I'm clearly missing out! Is there some sort of application form?

Thaumaturge · Jul 17, 2014

Echohawk said:
While I sincerely appreciate [MENTION=55946]mach1.9pants[/MENTION] 's kind words, I'm not terribly fussed about XP.

However, I am now interested in how to go about joining one of the above-mentioned cliques. They sound like they could be fun, and I'm clearly missing out! Is there some sort of application form?

Today's your lucky day! There is an application and interview process in the /ragequit thread right now!

Thaumaturge.

Dannyalcatraz · Jul 18, 2014

This is always a good place to spread the love around.

http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?299244-Operation-Power-Level-Gary

Echohawk · Jul 18, 2014

Dannyalcatraz said:
This is always a good place to spread the love around.

http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?299244-Operation-Power-Level-Gary

It appears that the links in Wik's first post in that thread to Gary's old posts no longer work

Dannyalcatraz · Jul 18, 2014

I up didn't check them all, but I KNOW some of these are still viable. Thanks, Mark CMG!

Mark CMG said:
Q and A with Gary Gygax Part I
Q and A with Gary Gygax Part II
" " Part III
" " Part IV
" " Part V
" " Part VI
" " Part VII
" " Part VIII
" " Part IX
" " Part X
" " Part XI
" " Part XII
" " Part XIII

Nagol · Jul 18, 2014

Another simple way to find his posts is to use the functional board search -- go advanced search, choose posts and enter the user name of Col_Pladoh.

Echohawk · Jul 18, 2014

Dannyalcatraz said:
I up didn't check them all, but I KNOW some of these are still viable. Thanks, Mark CMG!

Nagol said:
Another simple way to find his posts is to use the functional board search -- go advanced search, choose posts and enter the user name of Col_Pladoh.

Sorry -- I should have been clearer! I had no trouble at all locating one of Gary's posts to XP, but thought it still worthwhile to point out that the initial post Dannyalcatraz linked to now has broken links.