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Leumas Dragonsword -> RE: Appreciation? (10/10/2010 3:32:24)
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This could stop flame wars, and spamming, and would give a competitive element to the forums.
I think it would enhance the complete opposite, It would increase the amount of flame wars, the spamming of the giving of 'Appreciation' would be excessive and the Forums themselves are not meant to be competitive.
Flame Wars would happen due to the massive amount of bias that could occur, one person could get his/her own friends to vote for themselves and boost their own position in the system. And others would find that unfair and might feel compelled to complain. Your idea of limiting the giving of the Points to 3-5 people would slow the process but with everyone giving each pother Points it is still a problem.
The Forums are supposed to be an environment where people can feel free to express themselves and their ideas. Adding a competitive element such as this to the equation would create more problems than solve them. There are ways of 'competing' within the Forums, the Official Contests are an example of this.
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People with more appreciation would be able to give more points (and deduct more too), while people with less points can give and take less points.
This would create a hierarchy pretty much based on how popular the the respective person is. The more popular the he/she is the better off they are within the community. This would mean unfairness and so, would not be providing an equal opportunity to other members. It would mean that you could control the system by first, getting a group of people to all give you 'Points' with a promise to give them larger amount of 'Points' when you are higher up the Chain. You repeat the process for any person within the Forums, and you will get to a point where there will be half the people on one end of the spectrum while the other half are on the 'Negative' side. You would have the power, to 'downgrade' anyone you wish with the push of a button.
I do apologize if this post does seem overly negative, I believe that this suggestion would cause more harm than good. =/
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