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Old 01-25-2013, 08:32 AM   #87
Caveman Techie
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Re: Important: Merging of the Baseball Forums

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Originally Posted by Unassisted View Post
I'd like to see a system that highlights quality posts, rather than issuing points to quality posters.

IMO there's no benefit to the community from knowing that Poster X got 1000 upvotes over the course of the season.

The community might benefit from seeing that a particularly good reply in a 100-post thread got 50 upvotes. Some of us might otherwise miss it while reading the thread, or we might go back and think about it again with a new perspective after seeing that it got so much appreciation.
This is kind of what I was thinking of when I suggested the rep system again. I was at first thinking of the accumulation of rep to set an auto-ignore rule, but the discussions here has changed my mind. Each post stands on it own and the author does not collect rep for himself, I think that would remove alot of the "gaming the system" that used to go on.
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