But if you did that, then every troll who got negbanged would get a bunch of responses that would derail a thread, which is exactly what they want.
Take us home Blake
March 29th, 2011 at 12:55 PM ^
I actually agree with you. Posbangs are nice and fun, but from a community functioning standpoint, negs are actually useful. Plus, if someone with, say, 31000+ points (just to pull a number out of nowhere) needs a good negbanging for some odd reason, that's a lot of banging to get to Bolivia.
Everyone (myself included) should still have accountability. If we can't get more than 1,000 points, negbangs can potentially matter. They also would mean that can't just dish them out willy-nilly.
If you have a large point total, you've proven yourself to be a good poster. You should be encouraged to make your point toal even more insane.
In general that's true, but I can think of a couple high-point posters who've gone through meltdowns, and negbangs could not do much to rein them in.
Isn't that also a Mod responsibility, to rein them in?
There were also some high-point posters who got docked into the negative range because the mods saw how ridiculous they were being. I don't really see that as a big issue.
I never had as many points as some, but I did get hammered pretty hard for some inappropriate jokes.
Maybe - a large point poster may have proven themself to be a frequent poster, which I differentiate from a poster who writes something of substance and not merely a "true that",
true that
If all you do is post "+1" or "Snakeoil!" you'll eventually earn a bazillion sissy points.
Or have negs scale with the amount of MGoPoints someone has.
1,999 and under, negs count as -1.
2,999-2,000, negs count as -2.
3,999-3000, negs count as -3.
4,999-4000, negs count as -4.
The list goes on. If someone has 31,000 points, negs would count as -31.
And if you neg someone, you get negged for the amount of points you have on the same scale as above. So if you neg someone with 19,000 points while you have 3,000 points, they get negged for -19 points, and you get negged for -3 points. This way, it's a fair system for everyone, no matter the amount of MGoPoints you have.
