kittiejenn Posted:

Perhaps only have recent posts and friend requests count?

Bling Fling Posted:

Kittiejenn’s idea of having only recent posts/requests count, seems like a fine solutionan improvement. It makes the E-Peen and the boards more available, without giving out pityPeens to people who don’t meet the criteria to top them. To me at least, “Most replies in the past three months” makes a lot more sense as a criterion for E-Peen than “Most replies… except for an ever-growing number of characters who actually got more replies”.

I think “recent”, in both cases, should be about three months: that way the flamebate board gives an indication of “successful” posters (as it should), and inactive posters don’t stay up way high forever. Make that period much shorter and actual good posters will have zero chance to build up a competitive score.

I like this a lot. It’s not a solution to the whoring in flamebate/spamming of tubmails…

Maybe the whoring is OK; it’s part of the game. Giving out BPs as a means of whoring, though (and I’ll confess here to being a guilty party with one of my alts), is perhaps a little unfair, as it’s another example of RL money buying people a game advantage.

As for TM spam, I haven’t noticed enough of it to be bothered, but one solution for people who really hate it might be to have a setting whereby only people on your friends list can send you TMs (plus in-game NPCs, of course).