FriendFeed Point System: My Proposal
The Internet is serious business, as I’ve been told. 
It is very competitive and we’re all out for blood, right? In order to be able to keep track of this fact, we need a point system and it looks like one has been informally developed over at FriendFeed.
The exchange goes like so:
[blah blah] posted a message on Twitter
“Bush sucks. Obama walks on water. Palin. Lipstick. Pigs. Neocons.”
+1 blah blah - [fellow blah blah]
[Sorry, I had to get in a jab at the leftie vibe over on FriendFeed 
]
So, “blah blah” gets a point. And we see this all the time. I don’t rack up as many points as some mainly because I don’t go on there and bash conservatives all day. Some people on the site have racked up lots of points, assigned by their fellow FriendFeed hounds. And this, of course, means they’re winning the game, I guess.
Where do we keep the scoreboard?
And how do we determine how many points a person gets?
Usually, it seems to be +1. Has everybody ever gotten a +5 for a particularly juicy post?
I propose the following point system for FriendFeed:
- -10 for saying something extremely hateful or disruptive, as determined by the community
- -1 for saying something somebody else disagrees with
- 0 for run-of-the-mill crappola
- +1 for saying something somebody else agrees with
- +2 for saying something notable, something with contributes to the conversation (regardless of people agreeing with it)
Here is the beauty of this point system: This is SOCIAL media, right? And regardless of whether there is a community bias or not, when you go the way the wind blows, you score. When you piss against the wind, you lose score. Hey, its social. If you say something noteworthy to get people thinking, to raise a good point, to be a thought leader - you get points regardless of whether the community agrees (only seems fair). And, lastly, if you say something very disruptive and hateful, the community is going to backlash and you lose major pointage.
To be fair, we would need a “pointage committee” to act as judge in the event of a dispute. Nominations?
[Disclaimer: The previous commentary was obviously written completely tongue-in-cheek. If you don't like it, -1 for you]
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Comments
I don’t know if you’ve read much of Tara Hunt ( http://www.horsepigcow.com ); but what you’re proposing sounds very much to me like Whuffie (Pronounced “woofie”). I’ll leave you to research that. (Tip: look it up on Wikipedia.)
My question is why only +2 for saying something notable while -10 for saying something extremely hateful? : That appears to give a lot of power to the negative.
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I'm ready for the point system. What can I spend them on, though? Sorta like a Wheel of Fortune thing, where the ceramic cats are 15,000 dollars?
p.s. Are there any conservatives to bash? Would you please name one?