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mindseye: [quote author=Pecker link=board=meetgreet;num=1067816010;start=0#18 date=11/02/03 at 17:01:56]Excellent idea!
Mindseye?[/quote]
Well, it's possible to do this if there's a strong enough consensus.
I'd like to argue strongly against doing so, however. YaBB, being only a 'dumb' computer program, can only rank people by the quantity of their posts, not their quality. We've already seen cases of people intentionally posting substance-less drivel just to drive up their total number of posts. I know that if something were to happen to me, I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy at the top of the List Of Sheer Volume. I'm not sure he'd have wanted that either.
In addition, people have thoughtfully posted their remembrances of him as they passed him on the list -- and, frankly, that's a pretty cool way of honoring him. If his position were 'fixed' at the top of the list so that he couldn't be passed, that particular way to honor him would no longer be possible.
Mindseye?[/quote]
Well, it's possible to do this if there's a strong enough consensus.
I'd like to argue strongly against doing so, however. YaBB, being only a 'dumb' computer program, can only rank people by the quantity of their posts, not their quality. We've already seen cases of people intentionally posting substance-less drivel just to drive up their total number of posts. I know that if something were to happen to me, I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy at the top of the List Of Sheer Volume. I'm not sure he'd have wanted that either.
In addition, people have thoughtfully posted their remembrances of him as they passed him on the list -- and, frankly, that's a pretty cool way of honoring him. If his position were 'fixed' at the top of the list so that he couldn't be passed, that particular way to honor him would no longer be possible.