BryonD
Hero
I repeat my challenge. And you need to demonstrate that you could have found it under the old system. Remember, it "was just mildly inconvenient."
Heck, just link to my XP awarded list.
:( Who else is unhappy that XP comments are now showing up in the post?
- Thread starter frankthedm
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Heck, just link to my XP awarded list.
Nifft
Penguin Herder
Here's your XP awarded list:
site:http://www.enworld.org/forum/members/ BryonD - Google Search
However, I'm not going to sort it for most recent.
Cheers, -- N
PapersAndPaychecks
First Post
Russ, please could you put it back to how it was?
Alternatively you may be able to please most of the people most of the time by having it as a preference that can be set in the control panel (so we could choose from "Hide rep comments completely", "Hide rep comments in spoiler box", "Show rep comments", and "Show rep comments in highlighted box complete with annoying animated gif").
Alternatively you may be able to please most of the people most of the time by having it as a preference that can be set in the control panel (so we could choose from "Hide rep comments completely", "Hide rep comments in spoiler box", "Show rep comments", and "Show rep comments in highlighted box complete with annoying animated gif").
I'm fairly sure that both of these can be done reasonably easily.
Raven Crowking
First Post
catsclaw227
First Post
I saw an instance today where someone gave XP and commented, then in the next post, quoted a paragraph and wrote the same comment. About the same thing he/she gave XP.
Celebrim
Legend
Personally, I'd rather that they didn't show up. I don't necessarily intend them to be secret, but considering the posts I've given XP for I can definately see them starting a turf war within threads, especially when the capacity to give negative XP comes online (and speaking of, I hope it never does). The last thing I intend in giving XP is to cause ill-will toward the person I'm giving a sticker to or myself.
Putting XP comments into the public arena directly also expose my observer status and side of the argument I'm backing in contriversial threads that I'm otherwise keeping my mouth shut in, and given that I know my posts already spill over to be discussed on other boards its going to very much surpress the willingness I have to give XP. I don't want my approval to itself become a source of contriversy.
Really, I think the XP system should have minimal impact on the life of EnWorld. The more public you make it, I think the more you are going to see grudges, etc.
There are only about a dozen posters active enough and opinionated enough to get more XP than me, and if this continues I'll have to disable XP. I don't need a bunch of approval comments in a thread bolstering my esteem or anything. Some of you may consider that a double benefit, driving me from the system, but considering how many posters nerves I trample on, if giving me XP becomes a very public affair it just won't be worth it to get it. I don't want to start creating teams, cliques, or factions.
Why do we need a system to display when someone likes our posts anyway? Are we that insecure? I liked XP for being able to give a quiet and unobstrusive aside when I liked what the poster was offering, but when it becomes more than that I think its going to be bad for the community.
Putting XP comments into the public arena directly also expose my observer status and side of the argument I'm backing in contriversial threads that I'm otherwise keeping my mouth shut in, and given that I know my posts already spill over to be discussed on other boards its going to very much surpress the willingness I have to give XP. I don't want my approval to itself become a source of contriversy.
Really, I think the XP system should have minimal impact on the life of EnWorld. The more public you make it, I think the more you are going to see grudges, etc.
There are only about a dozen posters active enough and opinionated enough to get more XP than me, and if this continues I'll have to disable XP. I don't need a bunch of approval comments in a thread bolstering my esteem or anything. Some of you may consider that a double benefit, driving me from the system, but considering how many posters nerves I trample on, if giving me XP becomes a very public affair it just won't be worth it to get it. I don't want to start creating teams, cliques, or factions.
Why do we need a system to display when someone likes our posts anyway? Are we that insecure? I liked XP for being able to give a quiet and unobstrusive aside when I liked what the poster was offering, but when it becomes more than that I think its going to be bad for the community.
Nifft
Penguin Herder
The other way to remove the grudge-factor is to have XP stick to posts (like it does currently), but have it not stick to users. So you could freely pos-vote & neg-vote posts, without risking insulting the user himself.
However, that's rather drastic, and ought not be considered unless people really get bent out of shape about how many imaginary points they have pretended to accrue.
Cheers, -- N
