thread starters get ICs for thread views

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 5:25 pm

Thought of this and it's pretty cool. When someone starts a thread, they get 0.1 ICs for each view. So if very good threads are started, there's more views so more ICs for the person who started it.

This will also encourage to start more new topics.

There's just a problem and that problem is the limit that php has for number values, in fact, that limit is in probably every programming language.

In this case, I think the limit is 2147483647 which is not that big to consider what the bank's total property is.

But I'm looking into these limits and see if there's a way around it. If worse comes to worse I'll make it so everyone has less, and just make ICs worth more. For example I can give 0.5 to start a thread, 0.01 to reply and a loterry ticket can be 10 instead 100 etc... but I think were ok according to the current numbers. Everything seems to be working properly.

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manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 9:55 pm

and thus the thread war began

j/k I don't think that would really happen here though.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 10:11 pm

haha no, here is not a problem. But if they had that on big forums, I bet everyone would rely on the fact that new threads go on the home page, so people would start posting stuff like "click here to view [something with a horse and a teen]" to try and get the most views.

I was actually chatting with kenshin on msn and as a joke he meantioned about getting ICs for this thread (the most popular one on top lol) and it gave me the idea to give ICs per view.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 10:16 pm

<loudspeaker> Don't view any of Red's topics! </loudspeaker>

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 10:21 pm

lol

That's the sad part I start them all. That's why I want to encourage people to start more topics. I mentioned this in another thread, I'll be getting a free copy of Halo...... and it will make for a nice Christmas give away.......

That's if I don't get addicted to it. But I think that's what I'll do is do a raffle or something and it will be based on participation.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 10:32 pm

Making threads is hard for me because I don't have a reason to most of the time.

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