Yay, first post, I just hope I can catch up to the "featured bloggers" on the left.
But first, I'll just say it: I don't really agree with the point system and how this site works.
It seems that the people who post and comment a lot will get the most points, regardless of how good the content is. People will also get points for other people reading their posts, this could be used as a quality rating but it would more likely be a rating of how sensational a post is.
The rating system seems to force people to post many contraversial posts and comments in the hope that they will get many readers and accecpted posts. While this is fine for a normal blog maybe a better way would be to give readers the ability to rate posts for their content but this is tricky also because people with an unpopular viewpoint but excellent posts won't get as high a rating as someone with a more popular viewpoint. Maybe the post could have two ratings one for writing and style and one so you can agree/disagree with the point of the post.
Also, with the current system I'm directly competing with the other posters for "reads" which encourages me to not read other peoples posts so that they get less points. Even with a rating system there is the incentive to go around giving everyone zeros.
And how are people chosen to be a "featured blogger"? It seems like that would tip the scales a tad.
I'm not exactly sure how the scoring would be done but there has to be a better way.
Read this post so I can get the money please!
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