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<blockquote data-quote="LightPhoenix" data-source="post: 5031913" data-attributes="member: 115">&quot;Me-too&quot; posts are always going to be a problem on any message board.&nbsp; The only way to convert the XP button to prevent that is to adopt a Digg/Reddit style system where XP actually has an effect on how the posts are read.&nbsp; That is (IMO) completely contrary to how a message board, and specifically this community, works.I think part of the problem with that may be a technical issue.&nbsp; That's additional data (possibly a sheet, not sure as to vB's system) you have to attach to every post, versus attaching it to every user.&nbsp; The latter is much less load on the system than the former.Aside from that though, I'm not certain I see a point to adopting a per-post XP system.&nbsp; That doesn't really solve the problem you've stated regarding on-topic versus off-topic posts getting XP.&nbsp; Presumably, there would be a way of monitoring high-XP posts in a per-post system.&nbsp; It would be impossible to separate the post from the poster, and such an index of high-XP posts would include poster information, even tangentially (say, by clicking the link to read the post).&nbsp; Of course, all high-XP posts could be monitored completely anonymously; that is, an index of high-XP posts has the user information (poster, thread links, etc) stripped from it.&nbsp; I would argue that defeats the purpose of any XP system, which is to reward good posting behavior.&nbsp; It still does nothing to change XP-granting behavior (on- vs. off-topic) while removing any positive benefits of the XP system.&nbsp; In which case, why even bother using it?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="LightPhoenix, post: 5031913, member: 115"] "Me-too" posts are always going to be a problem on any message board. The only way to convert the XP button to prevent that is to adopt a Digg/Reddit style system where XP actually has an effect on how the posts are read. That is (IMO) completely contrary to how a message board, and specifically this community, works. I think part of the problem with that may be a technical issue. That's additional data (possibly a sheet, not sure as to vB's system) you have to attach to every post, versus attaching it to every user. The latter is much less load on the system than the former. Aside from that though, I'm not certain I see a point to adopting a per-post XP system. That doesn't really solve the problem you've stated regarding on-topic versus off-topic posts getting XP. Presumably, there would be a way of monitoring high-XP posts in a per-post system. It would be impossible to separate the post from the poster, and such an index of high-XP posts would include poster information, even tangentially (say, by clicking the link to read the post). Of course, all high-XP posts could be monitored completely anonymously; that is, an index of high-XP posts has the user information (poster, thread links, etc) stripped from it. I would argue that defeats the purpose of [I]any[/I] XP system, which is to reward good posting behavior. It still does nothing to change XP-granting behavior (on- vs. off-topic) while removing any positive benefits of the XP system. In which case, why even bother using it? [/QUOTE]

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