At 5/30/09 04:02 PM, Coop83 wrote:At 5/30/09 03:50 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: How exactly would letting everyone know where their whistle stands be prone to abuse and put more work on the Review moderation team? That's something on which I am still not clear.It concentrates on the stats more than the actual purpose of the whistle. Much the same as people who post for the sake of getting a high post count.
Much the same as people who write tons of one line reviews to get their review count high
Much the same as people who visit the portal every minute of their waking lives to get massive B/P scores.
You see where I'm going here?
I fully agree with you, Coop, that the abuse will increase if we could see our whistle points. That won't stop people from making poor judgment calls on review whistles - in fact, it would probably make the more greedier ones sloppy, overwhelm the mods, and wind up giving them garbage instead of deity.
I see all of the competition on the NGLogs site, especially after adding the medal counts and rankings. It seems that many of the younger (well, from my perspective, MOST of NG is younger than me) crowd are more interested in being first in a list than anything else. We really don't need to give them another number to shoot for.
However, I would like to interject that just because someone "visits the portal every minute of their waking lives" isn't always doing it just for the B/P. While I am a stat-whore to some degree (alright, maybe a big degree) my whistle actions are slow and deliberate. It took me a long time to get to silver, and quite frankly, it'll be nice to get to gold or even deity eventually - but that's not important. What's important is that I vote fairly, review fairly and whistle fairly - or not at all. Yes, I'm cranking up B/P now because I am out of work, but that is actually going to slow down very soon, as I have a few interviews next week and may actually be working again - yay! But while I've been home, I've grown used to this place, and I do spend an awful long time online. It's fun looking at all the new flashes, and helping to keep the crud down. I take my post seriously here, and whether I get 500 B/P a week or 50, they are all done right. Not all stat-whores are bad. But unfortunately, many are.
My suggestion to all those who want to see whistle points: forget about it. Just keep whistling conservatively and fairly (when in doubt, don't) and in good time, you will be rewarded. Be patient. Some things do not need to be rushed.
And that's my two cents, sir!
*Salutes*