Why Have You Disabled Experience Points?

[weem]

Usually in forums such as these, you set the XP value for additional box (or star, or mug of beer, whatever the image is) so in this case it is probably independent of the XP titles.

I could be wrong of course.


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EX:

<> 50xp
<><> 150xp
<><><> 300xp

etc

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[El Mahdi]

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[TarionzCousin]

Here's a question... What does the amount of green boxes next to our title/level indicate?

It is your "Relative Testiclosity Scale." The more green boxes, the more XP you have.

 

[Stormonu]

I don't want to sound like a meanie, but I have to wonder why there isn't something where you can award negative XP. Not something that actually takes away from your XP, but indicates a disagreement with someone's statement. Tracked separately from XP. It'd be a quick way for people to state "I don't agree with this" without having to throw out a whole post out. I guess some people might call them "troll points", but hey, it'd point out whose argumentative on the boards, if nothing else.

Maybe it would stop some of the threadcrapping that derails or get threads locked around here.

 

[jaerdaph]

I don't want to sound like a meanie, but I have to wonder why there isn't something where you can award negative XP.

Sorry, but I think NOT having neg rep is one of the things that makes EN World the best online gaming community, and I hope we never see it.

 

[Nifft]

Maybe it would stop some of the threadcrapping that derails or get threads locked around here.

Could you stop people from using it to say "I don't agree with this person, and I have no valid counter-argument, but UNGH DAMN IT SCREW YOU"?

Because if you can't stop people from using it like that, you won't get the behavior modification that you're looking for. You'll just get a new way for trolls to antagonize people.

Cheers, -- N

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

The only thing worse than have pos rep in a forum to me is having neg rep. The former just creates self-seving cliquishness. The latter openly creates (more) hostility. All IMO.

 

[Morrus]

The only thing worse than have pos rep in a forum to me is having neg rep.

Oh, I'm sure I can think of other things worse than having posrep!

 

[Hussar]

Yeah, I've participated on sites with negrep and it just promotes way too much hostility. I noticed when the posrep comments first started out here, people were using them to crap on someone's post rather snarkily. Fortunately, that seems to have stopped.

I have no problem with someone stopping in, seeing something they like, and saying, "Yeah, good point". It's positive and generally leads to people being a bit less hostile to each other.

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

Oh, I'm sure I can think of other things worse than having posrep!

Well, I was talking about the reputation system itself, not getting a positive rep point, if you were confused. Getting positive or negative points themselves, I really don't care either way, especially when they're private (the xp comments function annoyingly removes such privacy).

As for the system of having positive xp to give out, though? Sure, it's not the worst thing a forum could have. Diabetes is also far from the worst illnesses a person could have, I'd still rather not have it, though.