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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5147329" data-attributes="member: 4937">Personally, I'd rather that they didn't show up.  I don't necessarily intend them to be secret, but considering the posts I've given XP for I can definately see them starting a turf war within threads, especially when the capacity to give negative XP comes online (and speaking of, I hope it never does).  The last thing I intend in giving XP is to cause ill-will toward the person I'm giving a sticker to or myself.  Putting XP comments into the public arena directly also expose my observer status and side of the argument I'm backing in contriversial threads that I'm otherwise keeping my mouth shut in, and given that I know my posts already spill over to be discussed on other boards its going to very much surpress the willingness I have to give XP.   I don't want my approval to itself become a source of contriversy.Really, I think the XP system should have minimal impact on the life of EnWorld.  The more public you make it, I think the more you are going to see grudges, etc. There are only about a dozen posters active enough and opinionated enough to get more XP than me, and if this continues I'll have to disable XP.  I don't need a bunch of approval comments in a thread bolstering my esteem or anything.  Some of you may consider that a double benefit, driving me from the system, but considering how many posters nerves I trample on, if giving me XP becomes a very public affair it just won't be worth it to get it.  I don't want to start creating teams, cliques, or factions.Why do we need a system to display when someone likes our posts anyway?  Are we that insecure?  I liked XP for being able to give a quiet and unobstrusive aside when I liked what the poster was offering, but when it becomes more than that I think its going to be bad for the community.</blockquote>

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