Possibly because posts that are funny tend to get more experience points than those with high analytic or creative value (with some exceptions, of course). It's understandable that people who like to gain XP for the latter would find this disheartening.
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Possibly because posts that are funny tend to get more experience points than those with high analytic or creative value (with some exceptions, of course). It's understandable that people who like to gain XP for the latter would find this disheartening.
And those of us- ME, for instance- who like it both ways think it rocks!
Hmmm...I guess that makes me Bi-XPual!
Hmmm...I guess that makes me Bi-XPual!
IronWolf
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I feel like I get a good feel just by reading posts on a regular basis as to what gets marked up with XP and what doesn't. Just from that it seems pretty arbitrary as to what folks give bonus XP for and what they don't.
I think the XP has been a neat little feature, but not to be taken too seriously.
El Mahdi
Muad'Dib of the Anauroch
This is true, but I don't see it as a problem. And honestly, with the limitations on XP (have to give it out to a certain number of people before giving it to someone again), I think it gets mitiagated quite a bit. Without that, the "funny" posts would just be drowned in XP comments. But you're right, funny and controversial posts do get an inordinate amount of XP compared to thoughtful, analytical, and creative posts.
I think it evens out the cosmic karmic balance for comedy though. Especially as Comedy is so underrepresented by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Dog Moon
Adventurer
I know. I was kidding.
Actually, I think this sort of thing could be kind of interesting. While many posts, as some mentioned above are simply given XP because they are humourous or whatnot, others are given XP because people believe they add value to a certain topic.
Listing top XP posts and allowing each person to determine which are interesting and which are simply comedic, people might be able to find a lot of interesting posts/threads that they wouldn't have noticed ordinarily because maybe they aren't in a forum they check frequently or something.
Or not. Without doing this, no one will know if this may be valuable or not.
StreamOfTheSky
Adventurer
To clarify what I meant: In my experience (haha, I made a pun), it seems that while some helpful, thoughtful, analytical, etc... type posts do get a lot of xp, many of the ones that get extended significantly by comment boxes are either joke posts or flaming / borderline flaming attack posts. Maybe that's not the case and my perception's skewed by the threads I look at. If it is the case, that's why I'd find it disheartening, because (to me at least...) it wouldn't say much for the site.
*preparing to be told I’m wrong by everyone that replies to this*
*preparing to be told I’m wrong by everyone that replies to this*
I have mountains of anecdotal evidence, and even more stipulation and surmising to back me up (not to mention plenty of guessing). You're going to need more than some easily manipulated statistics to convince me I'm wrong.
Nifft
Penguin Herder
This was the crux of an argument I made in Meta a while back: it seemed to me that my most XP-attractive posts were not the posts of which I was most proud.
It was my hope that making comments public would curb this a bit, but I'm not really sure if it has had that effect.
Cheers, -- N
jonesy
A Wicked Kendragon
Yes, funny posts attract exp. And as people find different kinds of things funny, the exp seems to go randomly to pretty much anything. But the constructive/deconstructive posts get the exact same treatment of seemingly random exp.
What I wanted to know was: how does this apply to the posts which get multiple people voting for them? And when I say multiple I do mean whole shedloads. Is it still seemingly random, or does the ratio turn one way or another?
What I wanted to know was: how does this apply to the posts which get multiple people voting for them? And when I say multiple I do mean whole shedloads. Is it still seemingly random, or does the ratio turn one way or another?
