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Worse than the badges is that the more points you have, the more features you get on SO. Which could be a positive (it certainly makes sense that the most enga
by yifanl 8y ago
Worse than the badges is that the more points you have, the more features you get on SO.
Which could be a positive (it certainly makes sense that the most engaged people should be the community moderators), but when combined with how points are earned, it would naturally lead to weirdness like the swaths of downvoting, reporting and totally unnecessary grammar edits.
- wool_gather 8y agoThere's a (fairly low) lifetime limit on receiving points for edits. Once you've earned the editing privilege, you no longer earn points. And you lose a point if you downvote an answer.