A nice way to handle this would be to allow users to adjust the scores of their comments down when they post, or just post with the default score. That way if a user wants to post something that just says "me too" he/she can give it a low score. At the same time, users can't save up points in a pool for a few weeks, then give themselves a high score for a "first post" or something silly like that. Of course you'd have to make sure that voluntarily lowering a score before it is posted doesn't change the default score for the user, otherwise nobody would use it.
I'm sure you'll get this thing perfected eventually, CmdrTaco. I've been lurking on/. since it was just a section of your college homepage (what was it called? Chips & Bits?) and it just keeps getting better all the time.
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BiGGO, I think you've hit upon a good idea here.
/. since it was just a section of your college homepage (what was it called? Chips & Bits?) and it just keeps getting better all the time.
A nice way to handle this would be to allow users to adjust the scores of their comments down when they post, or just post with the default score. That way if a user wants to post something that just says "me too" he/she can give it a low score. At the same time, users can't save up points in a pool for a few weeks, then give themselves a high score for a "first post" or something silly like that. Of course you'd have to make sure that voluntarily lowering a score before it is posted doesn't change the default score for the user, otherwise nobody would use it.
I'm sure you'll get this thing perfected eventually, CmdrTaco. I've been lurking on
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