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Suggestion: vBexperience system

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    As the title states, it's an experience system to level up by posting, being active, giving people points and earning points. And this will be the fun new "abused" system which people can show off who they love more! I don't see any possible way this system could be abused in any way

    For more information about this check out the thread here
     
    Sounds good to me. I'm all for it.
     
    After reading the thread, doesn't this put emphasis on post count when one thing of this forum has been "oh it doesn't matter at all?"

    The 3rd party addons look cool. Maybe for a get-together or something.
    I dunno.
     
    Oh no please no. I've never hated a vbulletin add-on more than this. I think it really does nothing and it looks ugly - especially in the postbit. Maybe if you could just make it in a tab, like the Emblems then it'll be okay. I'm against this though.
     
    I was against this until I read cookie's post. Maybe it's worth a shot?
     
    That's cool! Now if it's implemented I can pretend pokecommunity is a MMO and that will kill my urges to get addicted to Ragnarok again.
     
    Taziko said:
    Oh no please no. I've never hated a vbulletin add-on more than this. I think it really does nothing and it looks ugly - especially in the postbit. Maybe if you could just make it in a tab, like the Emblems then it'll be okay. I'm against this though.
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    haha, same here. Based on aesthetics alone, I'm giving a definite no. :(

    Though even if we found a way around the ugly postbit, I'm not so sure. What would we even offer as shop prizes? Most "perks" we have to offer are already used to entice donations.
     
    I'm not sure about this. On one hand, it seems like a good thing, but on the other hand, I know there will be more spam. Don't get me wrong, it sounds like a nice add-on, but it seems useless.

    What would we really do with the points other than trade them in for prizes? And as Lightning said,

    Lightning said:
    Most "perks" we have to offer are already used to entice donations.
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    If you ask me, it'd just deter donations, by members possibly getting supporter perks, which means less money for the forum. It'd make the supporters mad because people are getting what they paid good money for, for free.

    It seems more work than its worth, because either:
    A) We don't install it.
    B) We install it, and the staff might have to adjust the supporter perks in order to get more donations, which is good for the already-existing supporters, but would be a lot of work for the staff, due to them having to converse over what perk should change to what. Multiply that for 6 tiers, and that's a lot of work.


     
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    I say its worth it. Doesn't Audy have something like that in his posts? And it really would be the extra oomph PC needs right now IMO. And a shop and all would be nice.
     
    Lightning said:
    haha, same here. Based on aesthetics alone, I'm giving a definite no. :(

    Though even if we found a way around the ugly postbit, I'm not so sure. What would we even offer as shop prizes? Most "perks" we have to offer are already used to entice donations.
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    A shop sounds a lot more reasonable, but still I can't get round the feeling that most vB addons are pointless. If there were a system that could benefit us, then I would love to see is introduced - probably as a supporter perk. Even the shop would get boring after the first two months, I would think.
     
    Why not just use it without any "perks"? Crazy idea I know.
     
    After supporting bringing rep back and having the general member populace abuse it for a second time, I'm going to have to give a hearty no here. You can argue spam'll only happen at first, and over time less and less people will abuse it, but those are all arguments we used for rep abuse when we decided to bring it back. We need to learn from history, and as history shows: introducing something that separates members further into "ranks" is not a good idea.

    Doesn't Audy have something like that in his posts?
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    Trust me, that doesn't make it right. XD
     
    Pretty much agreeing on the reasons why this vBexperience system won't work here, at least on a big forum like this. The donators are already getting the perks for contributing to PC, so not sure if there's any more perks. Another reason is I see some people are going to abuse this system like the rep system. True the staff can look out for spam posts and such, but if this system is put in place then it might make them do more unnecessary work. I can see this system working better for a smaller forum though as it can bring some activity.
     
    The problem I have is that all of the ways to earn points seem to be quite easily exploitable:

    - Days online: there areplenty of people who join, disappear for years, and then come back much later

    - Social group members: I can see a lot of "everybody join this group to get loads of points" groups forming

    - Friends: plenty of people already send random friend requests to EVERYBODY they see and most newbs will accept them.

    - VMs: people could spam their own profiles

    - Album pictures: i see lots and LOTS of uploading random pictures for no reason other than to earn points.

    - referrals: ...hmm...I'm not sure if that could be abused much, actually. Unless people referred themselves under several different usernames

    - completing profiles: similar to pictures, people would just spam every section with one or two random letters and cash in their points.
     
    I've been to forums that use similar point systems in lieu of postcount, and one thing can be said for a system like this: It does reward members that actually get involved in the forum community...creating thought provoking threads just to get their thread views up, hanging around their analog of our CQ&F forum waiting for the chance to help a n00b so they can receive positive reputation, and generally being cool and friendly in order to expand their friendslist. :P

    Not saying that the bulk of PC members nowadays aren't helpful and friendly, but a system like this would let the most helpful and friendliest PC members get recognized, because, I'll be honest, postcount is a worthless barometer of a member's activity, especially if half their posts are in the DCC.

    the only thing I worry about is if the points my old account has earned can be transferred to this account. XD
     
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    Screw the rules said:
    The problem I have is that all of the ways to earn points seem to be quite easily exploitable:

    - Days online: there areplenty of people who join, disappear for years, and then come back much later

    - Social group members: I can see a lot of "everybody join this group to get loads of points" groups forming

    - Friends: plenty of people already send random friend requests to EVERYBODY they see and most newbs will accept them.

    - VMs: people could spam their own profiles

    - Album pictures: i see lots and LOTS of uploading random pictures for no reason other than to earn points.

    - referrals: ...hmm...I'm not sure if that could be abused much, actually. Unless people referred themselves under several different usernames

    - completing profiles: similar to pictures, people would just spam every section with one or two random letters and cash in their points.
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    ^This. It would just create a whole new dimension of spam, if you think about it. :T
    I also agree with Erica and https://www.pokecommunity.com/members/93177非常に高いレベル. The add-on just looks complicated and kinda...icky. xD It's just ugly, really. What I like about Pokecommunity is its sleak design, how it doesn't look like all those other forums with the annoying looking...stuff. I don't know, hard to explain, really...

    Mitchman said:
    I say its worth it. Doesn't Audy have something like that in his posts? And it really would be the extra oomph PC needs right now IMO. And a shop and all would be nice.
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    lolwut? Audy has a few special priveleges, he's allowed to do annoying things. xD And, like Parallelines said, just because Audy does it doesn't mean we should all jump on the bandwagon and create a wall of condensed WTF, you know?
     
    I really like this idea.. I mean I've seen this used on other forums and it tends to work out fine...


    OMG Ausy is working on something... What is it Ausy?
     
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