A thought about awarding points

Hi!
If I'm understanding the new system correctly, if I ask a question, and someone gives me some useful assistance, I can essentially award them points...
Under the old system, I was able to browse all the discussions, and from time to time, I would find a real gem of information. It was nice to be able to award the poster some points for his effort, even if I was not responsible for generating the question.
Just a for-what-it's-worth.
Thanks,
Bob

This is very true: Most "newish users […] don't know and may not wish to know about the voting system". Personally as a Level Zero I spent two or three weeks reading and learning, without even knowing about all those plus, minus, subscribe etc buttons. Only after a long while I saw all this and started to reward my first helpers on their new posts to somebody else... (thanks again Duane, Kappy, Tom Gewecke, Gulliver, Radar etc..!)
Still, Lennart is right in that the voting system was perverted by "friendly voting" and "opinion voting", especially the use of negative votes. How many times I saw debates with up to 30 votes (negatives then "corrected" etc) or more, given to two or three participants for or against some questionable comments, while the one useful, simple answer was given only one or even no vote at all!
That is only if nobody were cheating, but then,
moderators also have been trying to limit the votes since Leonardo already, and you can be very sure there are at least ten different members who have two or more accounts just for the purpose of giving votes to themselves.
Also,
as a European (often posting at a time when Moderators are sleeping/not monitoring, GMT-6 or 7), I was earning an actual Point only every 20th Vote or so. It was not the same "20% chances" to be awarded, depending from where in the world you were posting useful answers.
Yes,
I'm with Bob, Sagesse, Brian etc, I would like to be able to "buy" a good tip, Terminal command, link, advice etc that I'd find in another thread, but I do not miss the idea of voting.
I agree also that regular users know better than Level Zeros, what is really useful and what is just a fast, incomplete or just "semantically interessant" reply.
That's why they should be given a word too.
Why not trying the "Positive Votes Only" solution?
The simple fact that there would be no negative votes would make it a Point System, not anymore a Vote System.
It could be very limited, like for example being able to give only 5 points per day, if to somebody else's thread.
And if it doesn't work, just change it again?
Moderators really are doing a tremendous work here, at addressing this kind of question that should not become too important but that takes too much work and surveillance...

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