They're cool, they're interesting ... keep em up on a webpage and have em
generate automatically. Dont post it on the list every week or people will be
inclined to reply to it :)
Ranks can encourage posts but it's not really the same game as E2 XPs,
Slashdot Karma, SETI/Distributed.net etc ..
Parsing stuff rocks ! I want to see the script :)
Speaking of which, didnt some promise us a Slashcode-like BBS on slug.org.au ?
Regards, Matt
On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 01:27:34PM +1000, Matt wrote:
> > Well I haven't been following the discussions about the SLUG rankings very
> > closely .. but as I understoode (sp?) it from the last post by Aussie - the
> > amount of bytes you post is directly proportional to your ranking (excuse this
> > post if i'm off here) .. well anyway .. if this is true then the ranking script
> > (or whatever) will have no way of distinguishing (no I dont think by
> > having it cut out the > characters will do the trick) between the things you
> > have posted, and the messages you have appended to your replies (as you do when
> > replying) therefore I could reply to a 50k thread and the ranking script would
> > record a post of 50k. I suppose if everyone will do their share of
> > replying it may even out, but still it's not that accurate. Some posters also
> > trim previous posts to make it nice and pretty !
> >
> > Did anyone bring this up yet ? Not that I care about rankings, or anything :)
>
> quoted text is noise, not bytes but lines are counted; shall we play a game?
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