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<blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 5024796" data-attributes="member: 35909">I disagree with the OP.&nbsp; I didn't want them when they were implemented, I still find them detrimental at worst and insignificant at best.&nbsp; I sometimes give people xp for good posts, but that was mostly a habit borne out of guilt, because people were giving me xp for my posts they liked despite me using the hide xp opt-out option (and I'm thankful it's an option), and I felt like I was a jerk if I didn't give out the pointless things myself.Aside from my original objections, I also noted not far into starting the xp system that it &quot;rewarded&quot; (it's a pointless award, hence the quotes) people who had larger interest groups.&nbsp; The most noticable being that there's a larger group of 4E posters than 3E, so there's a larger group of people on the forum who agree with you, thus a larger pool of xp givers.&nbsp; Two posters who posted equally helpful posts with equal frequency would likely have different xp totals, probably by a large margin, based solely on where they happened to liek posting and how many like-minded people are also on the forums.&nbsp; Which destroys any semblence of &quot;merit&quot; a high xp count might otherwise mean.&nbsp; I wouldn't be surprised if the &quot;hive&quot; clique had similar xp groupings.&nbsp; Which goes back to one of my main reasons against xp: the reinforcement of cliques.Well said.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="StreamOfTheSky, post: 5024796, member: 35909"] I disagree with the OP. I didn't want them when they were implemented, I still find them detrimental at worst and insignificant at best. I sometimes give people xp for good posts, but that was mostly a habit borne out of guilt, because people were giving me xp for my posts they liked despite me using the hide xp opt-out option (and I'm thankful it's an option), and I felt like I was a jerk if I didn't give out the pointless things myself. Aside from my original objections, I also noted not far into starting the xp system that it "rewarded" (it's a pointless award, hence the quotes) people who had larger interest groups. The most noticable being that there's a larger group of 4E posters than 3E, so there's a larger group of people on the forum who agree with you, thus a larger pool of xp givers. Two posters who posted equally helpful posts with equal frequency would likely have different xp totals, probably by a large margin, based solely on where they happened to liek posting and how many like-minded people are also on the forums. Which destroys any semblence of "merit" a high xp count might otherwise mean. I wouldn't be surprised if the "hive" clique had similar xp groupings. Which goes back to one of my main reasons against xp: the reinforcement of cliques. Well said. [/QUOTE]

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