Spreading XP around ...

[Nifft]

Personally I would rather the Experience as it is now called Rep Points and have Experience be based on how much you actually post.

We do already have a measure of how much you actually post. We call it "Posts".

You have 934 of them.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Jdvn1]

We do already have a measure of how much you actually post. We call it "Posts".

You have 934 of them.

Cheers, -- N

Whoa, whoa, slow down there.

 

[jaerdaph]

I think we should be able to give XP to the XP comments. Maybe have them nest underneath the XP comments. Kind of like a message board within a message board.

 

[TheYeti1775]

We do already have a measure of how much you actually post. We call it "Posts".

You have 934 of them.

Cheers, -- N

How MUCH you post, not how often you post.

I.E.

I agree

Would get much less than:

That is a very wise point you bring up. Who could have thought in using number of posts to equate to experience.

It's more of a character count of a post vice a point per post.

Cause realistically someone could give a full homebrew module in one post, but it be thousands of characters in length and only have a few posts total. Whereas someone could have a 5,000 "Yup" or "I agree" posts.

 

[Jack7]

The experience of it all
By 50 can seem daunting,
The value of it all
By 10 can be quite wanting,
The numbers of our posts
By count may just be counting,
Yet measured by the most
May seem to be a'mounting,
Amounting though to what?
I daren't any notion,
And here we are again,
A going through the motions,
And yet a'motion is
How things get done a'for us,
So lay it out amidst
And join up with the chorus!
Who cares if keeping score
Is the only score worth keeping
Just give the man his due
And let him keep a'reapin!

 

[Maidhc O Casain]

A question revealing my ignorance:

How do I know how many XP I've spread around? I see the counter in my 'Settings' portion of 'My Profile/Settings' but that only shows the last 20.

I've found the list in my profile where it shows the total number I've received, but can't seem to figure out where to look for the total number I've given.

 

[LightPhoenix]

How MUCH you post, not how often you post.

That's also publicly available information. You post 0.44 posts per day, according to your profile (under the "Statistics" tab).

 

[Lanefan]

That's also publicly available information. You post 0.44 posts per day, according to your profile (under the "Statistics" tab).

Interesting, but I think the idea was to try and reward post content rather than sheer amount of different posts. The suggested method was by character count per post, which is of course flawed all to hell; but there's no other real way to do it that isn't subjective on some level.

Lan-"I'd rather reward posts with character than characters per post"-efan

 

[Jdvn1]

Interesting, but I think the idea was to try and reward post content rather than sheer amount of different posts. The suggested method was by character count per post, which is of course flawed all to hell; but there's no other real way to do it that isn't subjective on some level.

Lan-"I'd rather reward posts with character than characters per post"-efan

Hm, if only there were a mechanic to gauge quality content...

 

[Lanefan]

Question for those who run such things:

Would it be possible to add a time element to XP granting, such that if I want to give XP to the same person twice I have to either

a) give XP to 50 other people in between, or
b) wait a certain amount of time e.g. 2 months, or
c) some combination of these e.g. a 10-week gap reduced by a week for every 5 different people you give XP to in the meantime (this one's probably impossible)

I don't want to find myself having to give out a bunch of "spread-around" XP just to make up to 50; I'd rather they have some meaning behind them.

Lanefan