The new clickies, a question (or two)

[The Coil]

2. You may change your vote for a member up or down as you see fit, but not add new votes to increase their #'s.

This to me makes sense, as to gain a large reputation you must influence a large number of members to vote for you. Rather than depend on a few friends to bolster your #'s, you must now convince those other fellow members as well that you're worthy of a reputation.

I think it suits well for the purpose now and abuse curbed to a point. it might make us think about those messages we leave a bit more since they'll be exposed now.

Umm, if you can stand it, one more clickie question/thought (and if you've had enough clickie talk, feel free to ignore me, I'd certainly understand).

I like the new system, and think it makes sense - as you noted, it limits the potential for abuse. Also limits the ability of one person to pile on clickies to another, either red or green. However, past clickies seem to still be cumulative. For example, consider the rep rating of Glenn Saunders - it's 84, but only because one other player has given him a skillion clickies. Seems a bit unfair. Here's my radical proposal: Delete all past clickies and have everyone start from scratch under the new system. Elegant and fair. And it'd be so fun to hear the stink Leto would put up. Think about it - it's a (semi-)serious suggestion. Of course, this assumes there's a giant 'clicky-reset' switch somewhere that can be flipped in a few seconds (in my mind, the switch is red, surrounded by a black and yellow striped border). If it took more than 30 seconds away from doing something more constructive and useful to the boards, it's probably not worth it...

Also, I still haven't gotten my 'Clickies for Prizes Redemption Catalog' in the mail yet. When did you send them out?