tip system?

[NixXSkate]

what if FFR had a tip system, where whenever you see a post in the forums you find helpful, interesting, etc., you can choose to click a "tip" button, that gives the poster a small amount of your credits. probably not gonna happen, but whatever, i think i'd be cool.

[Sephiroth28]

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Yeah but then people could just spam the button or multiple people tip them and it would lower the already near useless credits values.

[NixXSkate]

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maybe you could only do it once, and its taking credits from the user who tips the poster. plus, it would only be a small amount, like maybe 5 credits or something?

[Sephiroth28]

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Hmmm maybe but then there could possibly be a record of all the people you tipped and links to the post that you found helpful. Could happen but i doubt it.

[Sprite-]

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I really like this idea. I'm not a fan of customizing vBulletin templates, though. Let's see how much support this gets.

[Sephiroth28]

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I also think this could be a sort of encouragement for people. It might have a few people post more often in the forum. It also might build a little confidence if they see themselves getting a lot of "tips" from their info.

[MrPoptart]

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In my experience this just becomes a popularity contest and makes most people just beg for tips in every post.

[Zageron]

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There are certain ways this could work. It's a sweet idea, especially using credits.

[alloyus]

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I actually really like this idea as long as credits aren't given to the person being tipped...I just feel that that would cause too many problems xP Five credits to give a tip I don't think would be a bad idea, though. Not too much for people who want to tip but makes it less likely that people would just spam them.

[ScarletSky]

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In my experience this just becomes a popularity contest and makes most people just beg for tips in every post.

This.

But it's whatever. It's not a bad idea, and not like this damned board isn't already a popularity contest. =/

[xXAll-ProXx]

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I like this idea. As long as they actually indicate how much the OP has been tipped somewhere in the thread, to show how popular a thread is. And, when searching for threads, you could maybe sort it by "Most Tipped Threads" (?)

oh, and definitely 5 credits per person.

[devonin]

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If there's some kind of toplist for most tipped people or anything like that, all that happens is someone makes an alt account, plays a few games, and then tips their main, over and over and over.

[Xx{Midnight}xX]

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Bad idea.

[Sephiroth28]

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Bad idea.

Actually it's a good idea just the logistics of getting it to work well would be difficult.

[Sprite-]

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If there's some kind of toplist for most tipped people or anything like that, all that happens is someone makes an alt account, plays a few games, and then tips their main, over and over and over.

Easy. Just set a limit on how many times you can tip one user in a specific period of time.