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How should points work?

Points are very serious: they should correspond to positive contributions to the forum, and every time they're given or taken away, a reason should be given by a mod
Points are business casual: mods will award good deeds and smite bad deeds, but may not tell anyone about it
Points are funhouse batshit crazy: Can be given and taken away at whim by mods who do so for their pleasure and their pleasure alone (current policy)
Points should not be used at all
Points should be part of a forum game with complicated rules
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Offline Caliban

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Re: Should points be significant? POLL INSIDE
« Reply #25 on: February 26, 2008, 03:11:19 PM »
Even so.

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Re: Should points be significant? POLL INSIDE
« Reply #26 on: February 26, 2008, 05:41:12 PM »
Speaking as a guy who used to mod at a huge forum, you don't want to give posters ulterior motives to suck up to/harass mods.
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Re: Should points be significant? POLL INSIDE
« Reply #27 on: February 26, 2008, 05:47:27 PM »
Perhaps points should only apply to stuff done in the funhouse?  Since most casual posters avoid the funhouse, the more community-driven members will know that the points don't really mean much of anything.

I strongly disagree with the idea of points giving access to various features, as then you'll have people crying for points so they can put crappy images in their signatures or something. Likewise, I'm not keen on rewarding people for the quantity of their posts... Just quality. SPAM shouldn't be rewarded.

And, finally, if points are clutter, so are avatars, signatures and titles... Can we get rid of those too? :)

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Re: Should points be significant? POLL INSIDE
« Reply #28 on: February 26, 2008, 05:55:01 PM »
the current way is fine, and since it would be for the mods pleasure, on the giving or taking of points, they can always make up crazy rules and award or take away points for following or breaking the rule if they wish and our game would be to see if we could ever figure out the rules.

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Re: Should points be significant? POLL INSIDE
« Reply #29 on: February 27, 2008, 07:46:22 AM »
Points have already destroyed the Funhouse, which was a shithole to begin with, so sure, make them do something! Like create dinosaurs!

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Re: Should points be significant? POLL INSIDE
« Reply #30 on: February 27, 2008, 12:59:25 PM »
Maybe we could trade points for stickers, to email to friends and family?
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Re: Should points be significant? POLL INSIDE
« Reply #31 on: February 27, 2008, 02:56:39 PM »
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Re: Should points be significant? POLL INSIDE
« Reply #32 on: February 27, 2008, 04:51:35 PM »
Points suck, I thought I should inform the staff.
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Re: Should points be significant? POLL INSIDE
« Reply #33 on: February 27, 2008, 05:28:44 PM »
Banana stickers?

At first I was like "hm, what does this remind me of...................... METALOCALYPSE!" of course.

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Re: Should points be significant? POLL INSIDE
« Reply #34 on: February 27, 2008, 05:37:48 PM »
Congratulations!

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Re: Should points be significant? POLL INSIDE
« Reply #35 on: February 27, 2008, 05:39:35 PM »
Hahahahaha.
I hope the strike isn't what's keeping the 2nd season of Metalocalypse from ending.

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Re: Should points be significant? POLL INSIDE
« Reply #36 on: February 29, 2008, 02:07:06 AM »
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Re: Should points be significant? POLL INSIDE
« Reply #37 on: February 29, 2008, 03:40:27 AM »
How do we take the forums (and Khush's complicated forum game) to the blue ocean masses?

Could the points be integrated into the game somehow?

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Re: Should points be significant? POLL INSIDE
« Reply #38 on: February 29, 2008, 03:42:55 AM »
All I know is that I've gained and lost more points than any other user, and I'll soon be balanced at "0."

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Re: Should points be significant? POLL INSIDE
« Reply #39 on: February 29, 2008, 05:57:37 AM »
COMPLICATED FORUM GAME!!!!!!

I agree. Anything less isn't doing it justice. Scrap it or bring it out once in a while for some fun.

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Re: Should points be significant? POLL INSIDE
« Reply #40 on: February 29, 2008, 02:41:56 PM »
All I know is that I've gained and lost more points than any other user, and I'll soon be balanced at "0."

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