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[Raven Crowking]

Personally, I wouldn't include negrepping on EN World. A better XP bonus for posrepping is as big of a boost (IMHO) without making things like edition wars worse than they already are.

If you are going to allow negrepping, why not call it "level drain"?

 

[Fifth Element]

Personally, I wouldn't include negrepping on EN World.

I agree with Raven Crowking. That should tell you something.

 

[Noumenon]

If you look at my XP in Jester's post you can see two things:
1) this XP feature allows inserting your opinion (positive or negative) right into someone else's post, allowing for piling on/popularity contest stuff. Big change to the tenor of the board.
2) the amount of text the XP box allows you to input is more than the inline box displays.

 

[Nifft]

Personally, I wouldn't include negrepping on EN World. A better XP bonus for posrepping is as big of a boost (IMHO) without making things like edition wars worse than they already are.

If you are going to allow negrepping, why not call it "level drain"?

I agree with Raven Crowking. That should tell you something.

I only ever use "neg rep" on people who beg for rep.

Calling it "level drain" implies that I'm Wight, and that's racist.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Raven Crowking]

I agree with Raven Crowking. That should tell you something.

Yes.

That you're insane!

 

[Raven Crowking]

Calling it "level drain" implies that I'm Wight, and that's racist.

Nah, you're the Wraith of Khan.

 

[Noumenon]

The top 100 XP page is interesting. Surprised it only ranges from about 50 to 150 -- I'd have expected a power-law curve topping out at 1,500. I'm sure it'll be that way eventually.

Is there also a page listing the people who give out the most XP?

 

[TheYeti1775]

Don't think I'm a fan of the inline comments of Exp.

 

[Jack99]

The top 100 XP page is interesting.

Where do you find that?

 

[Noumenon]

One cool thing about inline XP is you don't have to actually make a post just to say "I liked this." So it increases the signal to noise in the actual posts.

I went back and looked at some old threads -- it looks weird to see "I was the only one who liked that post." It will probably influence other people's XP behavior when they get used to thinking "That's the kind of post everybody likes to give XP to," or "He hasn't got XP for that yet? I'll give him one," or "Gee, I wish that guy would stop giving XP to everyone who comments on his thread when I give it only for heartbreaking works of staggering genius."