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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5207132" data-attributes="member: 177">Shrug yourself, dude.&nbsp; If you want to be that 100% literal, rather than have a discussion in relaxed form, I can do that.It doesn't show the poster made many good posts or that they are liked - it shows the poster made posts that many people chose to give XP to.&nbsp; Maybe they did it because they liked the post, or liked the person.&nbsp; Maybe they did it because the post met some quality standard (which doesn't equate to &quot;liking&quot; - you can note quality without being pleased by the result).&nbsp; Maybe they did it to post a snarky comment, and were willing to up the XP total to do it, and so on.&nbsp; That's basically true whether under any rules, or none.&nbsp; There is never any guarantee that the XP denotes quality, either of post or of poster, unless the individuals of EN World choose it to be so.&nbsp; And if they so choose it, that's what they'll denote no matter what the particular rules - the specific rules are only a framing to make some voting patterns a little more difficult.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 5207132, member: 177"] Shrug yourself, dude. If you want to be that 100% literal, rather than have a discussion in relaxed form, I can do that. It doesn't show the poster made many good posts or that they are liked - it shows the poster made posts that many people chose to give XP to. Maybe they did it because they liked the post, or liked the person. Maybe they did it because the post met some quality standard (which doesn't equate to "liking" - you can note quality without being pleased by the result). Maybe they did it to post a snarky comment, and were willing to up the XP total to do it, and so on. That's basically true whether under any rules, or none. There is [I]never any guarantee[/I] that the XP denotes quality, either of post or of poster, unless the individuals of EN World choose it to be so. And if they so choose it, that's what they'll denote no matter what the particular rules - the specific rules are only a framing to make some voting patterns a little more difficult. [/QUOTE]

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