Johnnyboi, on 24 January 2010 - 01:11 PM, said:
Yes, but you make a lot of short posts. Since there's a cap to how many points you can receive per post, it's really not fair to those who spend hours on a topic :T
John is right. If I didn't have the cap on, me and John would be winning by a mile. So technically you're not winning. For example: My
Why the Patent System Fails topic only got me 13 points because that is where the cut off for points was. The amount of characters in the posts, warranted for me to have 45.37 points from that instead of 13. In total, that is 32.37 points that I technically deserve. So if I just ignored every single one of my other posts which were long enough to go past the point cut off, I would still have more than you. My current points: 821. Current Points + 32.37 = 853 (rounded DOWN). Your current Points: 847. 853>847. I win. End of story.
AKA, I gotta make some changes to the point cut off.
But any day now I can make it so downloads cost points, the question just is what. What john suggested could possibly be done, but it's not so much expanding the marketplace as it is the points system.