Kudos revised

[cyronarxes]

I may be wrong but last time i checked, it was possible to give yourself kudos. I think the kudos system should be improved so that you can not give yourself kudos. I just don't like it when people earn there way up through cheating. I want our wise leaders to base there power off of merit. Who knows when someone will begin to start giving themselves kudos. it could be happening right now. Anyways I just think it should be revised soon.

[Abramul]

Upon attempting to give myself kudos:

Just No

You're full of yourself aren't you? If I wasn't so nice I'd give you -1000 kudos points for trying to give kudos to yourself. You make me sick.

 

It's been that way since they were first implemented.

[cyronarxes]

Strange, when i accidentally pressed on my name, i was able to give myself a kudo. Don't worry, Im not a self loving cretin so I immediatly took the kudo away from myself. What do you take of it? Also, another flaw is that people can form groups and kudo each other a lot just because they like each other

[ninja_lord666]

Strange, when i accidentally pressed on my name, i was able to give myself a kudo. Don't worry, Im not a self loving cretin so I immediatly took the kudo away from myself. What do you take of it? Also, another flaw is that people can form groups and kudo each other a lot just because they like each other

How did you give yourself a kudo? :D Maybe I could "accidentally" give myself one, too... :rolleyes:

[Marxist ßastard]

I think he's talking about the "kudos a random member" link in my signature.

 

I've tried to add some protection, but the algorithm is still very rough, and thus there is a reasonable risk of giving kudos to yourself that way. I think that maybe 20% of the people who have ever clicked that link did so with the intention of giving kudos to themselves --- it's a real problem.

[ninja_lord666]

I think he's talking about the "kudos a random member" link in my signature.

 

I've tried to add some protection, but the algorithm is still very rough, and thus there is a reasonable risk of giving kudos to yourself that way. I think that maybe 20% of the people who have ever clicked that link did so with the intention of giving kudos to themselves --- it's a real problem.

If it's so random, then why is it every time I click it it gives/takes kudos from you?

[Marxist ßastard]

Well, look at it this way: when playing poker, there's an equal chance of 2 598 960 hands being dealt to you. That means that whenever you get dealt a hand, there was only a one in about 2.6 million chance that you would get it. Every single hand you get dealt in poker is thus an extraordinarily rare event. Playing a full game of poker, the odds are nothing short of astronomical --- it's practically a numerical impossibility that a game of poker should have any particular outcome --- but poker, mathematically improbable as it may be, still happens. Games of poker are still played every single day, around the world.

 

Now, we have what, three hundred thousand members? Versus 2.6 million possible hands in poker, it's actually much more probable that you'll pick me to give kudos to out of all the site's members. The way I coded the algorithm (people who haven't ever posted aren't included as possibilities), it's more probable still.

 

Before you say that your particular situation is less probable because I got picked as a random member multiple times, let me just say this is not how probability works! Probability studies things where the result of one trial does not affect any other trial --- a set which my random member selection algorithm falls quite well into. Getting a particular member for one selection does not make it any more or less probable that you'll select that member again. Thus, it's irrelevant that the algorithm happened to choose me multiple times --- that just means that it's functioning within normal parameters.

[Abramul]

And the fact that it excludes members whose member # is not 19308 has nothing to do with it?

[Dark0ne]

You never cease to make me chortle, MB ;D

[Povuholo]

Lol @ MB! :D

 

I don't think someone will create a billion accounts to give himself kudos. It doesn't give you any privileges or anything. And I think Darky over there can see if many accounts have been created and used from the same computer.