- supertripon
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Stupidity, when sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic
Posted by: HOOBLA 911
Posted by: R3ACTlON
We're here to discuss things, not see who can go the longest without being banned while being super active. Titles don't mean anything, and I want the same ability any other user has.
I understand what your saying, but listen me out.
In all cases, there are two ways to encourage good behavior: one is to reward the good and the other is to punish the bad. On b.net, both are currently being used (titles and bans).
However, I think if we rewarded even more then we would get even better behavior.I don't think so.
No direct reward for good behavior is really feasible on these forums- the system punishes undesired behavior and rewards neutrality (that is, avoiding breaking the rules). Users who don't desire to break the rules will continue to not break the rules with these new incentives, which would change nothing for the better and unnecessarily increase the temptation for them to boost post count rather than just come here for the sake of discussion. However, users that don't care about breaking the rules anyway won't be affected at all by any new incentives.
All this would do is give more shiny, meaningless things to already rule-abiding members. I guess the title system is justified because all it does is label members who contribute more (in theory) and don't break the rules. But this system won't even give recognition, it's just meaningless. The only way this system would in the slightest influence those who intend to break the rules in the first place is by giving them material for troll threads regarding the policy.