(January 2, 2018 at 2:12 pm)wallym Wrote: What's interesting about this forum environment, is that there isn't really any practical purpose to want to collect kudos/rep. There isn't a chance to go viral. And with such a small community, it's not like someone is going to become famous in any way because they got 10 kudos on a post, or hit 50 rep. Everybody is a pretty known commodity.
In this specific situation, I think maybe the kudos/rep is a loose reflection of the responses one's posts receives, which is where the echo chamber effect takes place. So a kudos is a substitute for "I agree with Kevin" rather than posting "I agree with Kevin." So it serves as shorthand more than anything? But what it's shorthand for is the stuff about positive feedback.
There used to be an addon in the forum which showed the total kudos given to each member, ranking them daily, weekly, monthly and of all time.
Weirdly when I joined (as a noob) it was good to see me near the top of the weekly or daily kudos-meters because it meant that people were reading what I was saying.
The yearly one was a joke though. Turns out minimalist has been on here about 80 years and had tens of thousands more kudos than anyone. Lol
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