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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 4476810" data-attributes="member: 1">That's exactly what we don't want it to be, and the largest reason for the one-month trial.&nbsp; If it turns into a positive enocuragement tool for quality posts and contributions, that's great; if it turns into a cliqueish popularity contesnt, not so great.We've tried to mitigate it by setting a spread of 50 points, so you have to give XP to 50 other people before you can give XP to that same person again (and you cna only give 3 per day).&nbsp; We hope that will prevent cliques awarduing each other XP continually.&nbsp; And as the month goes, we can adjust those settings - if the 50 needs to be increased, it can.It is an experiment, and one-month one only at that; we're under no illusions that the experiment will necessarily work; we just have some hopes.&nbsp; We cna spend the month making changes, and at the end of the month, if it hasn't worked out well, then it only takes one mouse-click to turn it off. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />[Ah, just seen Umbran already said all that!&nbsp; That'll teach me to press &quot;reply&quot; and then go play with the dog before hitting &quot;submit&quot;! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />]So, in short - we're acutely aware of that possibility, and that's the reason we've never used rep before.&nbsp; And it may end up being the reason we don't end up using it this time, too!&nbsp; But we'll see; hopefully, your fears won't come to pass, or we can tweak things to prevent it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Morrus, post: 4476810, member: 1"] That's exactly what we don't want it to be, and the largest reason for the one-month trial. If it turns into a positive enocuragement tool for quality posts and contributions, that's great; if it turns into a cliqueish popularity contesnt, not so great. We've tried to mitigate it by setting a spread of 50 points, so you have to give XP to 50 other people before you can give XP to that same person again (and you cna only give 3 per day). We hope that will prevent cliques awarduing each other XP continually. And as the month goes, we can adjust those settings - if the 50 needs to be increased, it can. It [I]is[/I] an experiment, and one-month one only at that; we're under no illusions that the experiment will necessarily work; we just have some hopes. We cna spend the month making changes, and at the end of the month, if it hasn't worked out well, then it only takes one mouse-click to turn it off. :) [I][Ah, just seen Umbran already said all that! That'll teach me to press "reply" and then go play with the dog before hitting "submit"! :D][/I] So, in short - we're acutely aware of that possibility, and that's the reason we've never used rep before. And it may end up being the reason we don't end up using it this time, too! But we'll see; hopefully, your fears won't come to pass, or we can tweak things to prevent it. :) [/QUOTE]

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