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I think that spending EXP could possibly lose the website's goal in mind. We're here to read and write.

Yeah, it said that it could be used to bring in more readers to your story.

yeah i agree

Awesome, glad you liked the idea 3J! :)

And deadly_sinner, I get that we're here to read and write, but isn't the purpose of any writing site also to get feedback on your work, ideally the sort that can help you improve? The main point of the suggestion is to encourage this. Also I think a lot of people at a site like this tend to primarily be writers, and it's good for us to have incentive to get out of our own little worlds for a little while and comment on what other people are doing...has the bonus of making us a little more critical of our own work too, which is always a good thing IMO.

Yeah I did. That's kind of a stupid question. Why would you want to give someone more points for reading a story? You already get one for rating a story. I guess it could promote more readers, but it seems like we have enough of it already. I don't know. I would have to see it in action to understand it better.

And I should have said in my first post "We're here to read and write, why do we need to paid for it?"

instead of spending the points the points, why dont give the right to "flag" a story every 100 points or so. allthough that increment may be vastly low.

thats another completly legitament way to do it, i like my idea better purly because its my idea. both would work just fine.

Yes but having to spend EXP points to do this might isolate new players who do not have Tons of experince points.

Well, experience points are earned through reading stories and rating them. So this is also a good method to encourage readers to read every story, no?

I hate to sound like a dolt, but I would have to see it in action to understand it. I'm not sure why I don't fully comprehend this.

JJJ you or maybe someone else specifically said a way to spend EXP points well I have only 30 so I do not want to spend any yet or I might have enough that is what I mean by isolating new members.

I'm neutral on this. I wouldn't care either way. But i am a little conserned that members with a low number of points would never get there stories 'Flagged'. The people like JJJ and active users would get a massive advantage and I don't think that is fair. People should Flagged for good stories not for being the most active. In a sense they already get flaged, by score not by points.

Actually on second thoughts I'm against the idea. It's just too biased towards active members, rather than good stories.

Yes, people who are active in the community will tend to wind up with more points. Obviously. That's a horrible downside again because why? Or is there some reason people who write good stories wouldn't also be reading and commenting as well? Reading and writing are literally the only two things to do on this site, and classically they go hand in hand.

One of the main parts of the idea is that you, as a reader and an active member who cares about the community, can flag any story you like. Is there some little gem somewhere you feel is being ignored, or a story that's great but unfortunately just not quite great enough to get in the top 5 where people will actually see it? Awesome, now you can make it more visible and give other people an incentive to read it and discover for themselves how good it is. Maybe they'll even go on to check out the author's other work. Maybe the author will be inspired by the feedback and advice they get to write an even better story, who knows? It's a win-win all around.

Honestly I don't get the resistance this idea is getting - it's not like a people who don't want to bother with it are being punished in any way, it's the exact same system you guys have always had, just with the added option to put a temporary spotlight on a story (whether it's yours or someone else's) and get the author a little extra feedback.  

I understand this better now, I read everything thoroughly.

I read it through the first time, sometimes ideas (or their usefulness) don't click right away with me. But yeah, being a broken record gets annoying, I understand. Apologies!