People still can't figure out how to use the reputation points system. What makes you think another points system will suddenly become meaningful? Here's what will happen: confusion, abuse, and bitching (which already happens with the existing rep).
John A
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If you really want to get points for your questions and answers head over to somewhere more suited to it...
www.answerbag.com - Wow, you can get points!!
Paul Thompson
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Maybe we could have a points system to grade questions on how stupid they are. Like "URGENT! My program's broke, please fix it, and be quick about it.". On a scale of 1 to 10, that deserves a 10 for one of the most stupid idiotic posts that occasionally come up.
Ancient Dragon
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experts exchange has a point system too. I like the reputation system better because the point system would put more of a burder on moderators to assess each question and score it -- and they would likely have to do that before the question is answered. Then this would be more code that the Daniweb team would have to merge with vBulletin updates when they upgraded versions.
How much do you want to bet that if users could assign a point value to their own question that it would always be a 10?
sknake
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Why change it? What daniweb has works. What is the benefit of the added labor in a point system?
sknake
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>I like the reputation system better
I personally feel that the reputation system is a complete fail and the point system introduced by StackOverflow is awesome. You get a vote-up if the answer is acceptable; a vote-down is not. The reputation generated for each vote-up/vote-down is the *same* irrespective of the number of reputation points the voter has!
Let's assume that you post a really good answer to some C# question and it's a hit with the C# developers on this site who completely agree with the reply but just happen to have recently joined Daniweb and hence don't have any reputation points to give. OTOH, someone else posts a so-so reply on the same thread with a bit of *cough* humor *ahem* in it and it gets a A-OK from one of the established members of this site. Viola, the person with a so-so reply now has 50 rep points while you have none.
Reputation should IMO depend on how many people agree with your answer rather than *who* agrees with your answer. The reputation system should focus more on avoiding blunders than trying really hard to reward acceptable answers. Lastly, as someone once said, rep system is more of a popularity contest. :-)
> because the point system would put more of a burder on
> moderators to assess each question and score it
Even normal members can vote-up answers, no? AFAIK, there is no burden on moderators whatsoever.
~s.o.s~
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