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Just an idea but howbout points per rating.

IE, everytime your story gets rated an 8, you get 2 points

a seven, you get one point

a six, you get half a point (two ratings = 1 point)

yeah there is the possible cheating aspect. You could even do, once per ip address though?

most people have dynamic ip addresses because a static one would be $5 more on their bill.

anyways, you get points for publishing a game, isnt that enough? and then points for featured....

No, I don't think so.

Considering (and I quote fleshy) this is a "writing site". 10 points for a game is rediculously low.  (I got 10 for Paraplaniacs). Since the majority of 6-7 rated games are not featured, we still need an incentive for those stories.

Omfg. Have you noticed that anytime someone can't properly refute an idea, the principle of "other stuff is more important" ALWAYS comes up?   IT's so irrelevent that it's just totally hilarious that it's so commonly brought up. IT DOES NOT MATTER!  I didn't say this had to be priority #1

So what your saying is that:

Excellent: 100 Points
Great: 10 Points
Good: 10 Points
Decent: 10 Points
Mediocre: 10 Points
Bad: 10 Points
Terrible: Unpublished

What I'm saying is that

Excellent: 100 Points + Lots of Extras
Great: 10 Points + Extras
Good: 10 Points + Some Extras
Decent: 10 Points + A few Extras
Mediocre: 10 Points + the possibility of a few extras
Bad: 10 Points
Terrible: Unpublished

And duelling was very easy to manipulate to get points unfairly.  It's still here. Actualy, points in general are really easy to cheap into.  That doesn't stop their existence.

jeez, i just want to see o ther ideas done first and i know until those are done, nothing else will get completed (unless theyu are very minor) so yes it is pertinent to include that something else will not get done, and this is the wishing well, so members are allowed to voice their opinions as to what they think should be implemented, however, its always ultimately up to alex and march, i just never really cared much for points, like i hardly get the daily point anymore ( i did in the past few days cuz i liked to see an even 2700 :P) what i think is needed instead of giving extra points for good games (since points are so volatile) have a trophy for it, or a recognition on your profile/game. i dont see points as much of recognition since they disappear or accumulate so quickly that you dont know why or how that person got the points.

so yes, i believe incentives need to be given, just not this KIND of incentive :)

It's fine that you want to see other ideas done first, but that does not mean that this doesn't deserve consideration.  So what your saying now is that because you don't care for points, that they shouldn't be used as an incentive? Even though, you just said that 100 points for a featured game is good enough incentive.  Girls these days ;)

basically i said 100 points is good, and we can ADD to that with trophy or recognition on profile/games, i was thinking just adding more points doesnt really do much...

I dunna, it's possible to accidently click buttons :P

Who knows.  Happened to me with the Tower II once.

except we already have those problems.  This doesn't effect that really.

Noooooooooooooooo , No No . This would be so bad. The points would influence people decesions and the voting system would become a points system . Nobody would honestly rate a game low even if it was rubbish because then if that person got low points then they would retalate and rate low on their game. I think voting should be voting only .

im going to have to agree with bradhal here.