If a person gets 60 ratings, their posts start at their average karma, but until they hit 15 posts, this can be no higher than 3.00.
This way, let's say someone creates an account named Albergooooo and posts a "YOU ALL SUCK" thread. It gets rated with 20 1s, bringing the post rating to 1.18. That makes Albergooooo have 22 ratings, with an average rating of 1.18. (When someone posts a post, they "rate" themselves twice at their average karma)
Now if Albergooooo was to start posting informative posts, not getting rated again, at 15 posts Albergooooo would have 40 ratings, and an average of 2.2. This is the same as in the current system.
Now let's say after the "YOU ALL SUCK" post, Albergooooo posts a "GET **** HERE" post. This gets rated 1 36 times, bringing the post to 1.10. This would cause Albergooooo's post rating to 1.13 with 60 ratings. Under this proposal, all of Albergooooo's posts would start at 1.13 after a mere two posts, instead of Albergooooo having 13 more posts to spew filth over the board at 3.00.
Any thoughts about this?
Edit: Just realized that Albergo already created Albergooo, so changed it to Albergooooo
Edited, Thu Oct 21 03:05:30 2004 by Kesac