New Point System Launch

Posted by Dan Quinn

Posted by Dan Quinn posted in Run It Once Training

Posted 12 years, 2 months ago

New Point System Launch

As promised, Run It Once is moving to a "like only" point system.
All point balances have been adjusted retroactive to site launch to reflect the following structure:

Pro like: 5 points
Member like: 1 point

Hopefully this gives a better reflection of who the top posters in the community than what we have had in place thus far.

Note: A number of accounts that clearly were created only to accrue likes have been deleted.
In the future any member caught cheating the system in any manner will have their point balance reset to zero.
Subsequent violation will result in a permanent ban.
It makes me cringe that we have to say that, so please let's just keep it clean going forward.

Thanks!

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John Mackay 12 years, 2 months ago

haha gd work - how can i chk how many points i have earnt in the current month please?

John Mackay 12 years, 2 months ago

Also without coming across as a bit of a t**t (lol i obv am gonna but whatevers) i think that high stakes pro's who get about 20 "likes" per post b/c of who they are should be excluded from getting the free month since it constitutes a big blind to them

flatbreadpizza 12 years, 2 months ago

If I can offer my honest opinion, I think you guys made a bad system worse. I'm not talking about in fairness for those competing, but from your end for what you are trying to do with this (which is grow the site). The goal should be not to most accurately measure who the top 5 are. The goal should be to create incentive for participation in the forum. Afterall, creating an active forum can make all of us more money than the 100$ free membership in EV.

To me I don't really even get why you are trying to do this on a point system. It would be easier, more fair and uncheatable if you just had the instructors choose posters of the month subjectively. STill giving points is based on the old system is still cool because even giving people non monetary points is positive and the old one it was easier to get points. Also I think you accomplish more by giving 20 people half off their membership or giving 40 people a basic membership or 10 off than being so top heavy with it.

If I were trying to grow this site, I'd have a high stakes, midstakes, and lowstakes poster of the month who gets a free elite membership, honorable mention prizes of some kind for 3 other high stakes posters, 10 midstakes, and 25 low stakes posters. Also keeping a record of the month by month winners is cool too.