Originally Posted by jcoolkatzerg

I think that the points system needs some modifications. My biggest problem is the lottery. The whole idea of the points is some sort of self-modderation, and being able to have a million points defeats the whole purpous. Yes, I know I played the lottery, but for what? A user title change. Cost:1,250 points. So, I suggest that the lottery should be once every week (maybe every 2 weeks) and only for about 1,000 points, not every hour and for 10,000 points a pop.

The prices of user name stuff should be lowered a bit, and thiefery should be much higher. If someone pisses you off, it must be worth the 30,000 points it takes to ban them from a forum, yet 500 points for a user title is quite resonable and fesable.

Another flaw is that the system hasn't been flowing well. A few people (me being one of them) have a lot of points, and will gladly donate to good posters. But most people only have a few points. 5 points do not go far enough to reward a good post. The only way to solve this is to wait for more people to have more points to spare. A lowering of the price of user flashy stuff will alow most poeple to get the basic stuff that they want, and then help spread the wealth.

[post-post addition]:Think of this as our post count. When we all just joined, we wanted to get member, and then senior member. Once we had achived a satus higher then n00b, we stopped trying to make flimsy and artificial posts just to raise our count.[/addition]

There are a few more bugs in my point of veiw, but I'm not going to post them unless they become more pomanate to the topic of this thread.

[Lazy Reader's Summary] I feel that points could lead to a better forum that is cusomised and partly self-moderated, but there are a few bugs in the system, and it needs to be given more time for a basic accumulation of points by the adverage user. [/summary]