VBExperience system update.. Loss of Points
Dec 13, 2011 | 09:33 AM
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VBExperience system update.. Loss of Points
Hey everyone!
First I want to thank each of you who took the time to report your experience with VbExperience. There were two active threads that have become very long with many questions and observations that have been buried with time. The goals of the system are to encourage positive contributions and add some fun while here. Neither appear to being met and in fact having the opposite result. I monitored the VbExperience roll out on two other IB automotive communities before we brought it here. The community experience there was substantially different and I apologize to those who have seen point loses seemingly without a reason and have become understandably discouraged.
Additional changes were made to the system today and if we continue to see inexplicable large point losses we will have to request tech support to see why. Please continue to report anomalies going forward from today or large point losses. Thanks.
Bob..
First I want to thank each of you who took the time to report your experience with VbExperience. There were two active threads that have become very long with many questions and observations that have been buried with time. The goals of the system are to encourage positive contributions and add some fun while here. Neither appear to being met and in fact having the opposite result. I monitored the VbExperience roll out on two other IB automotive communities before we brought it here. The community experience there was substantially different and I apologize to those who have seen point loses seemingly without a reason and have become understandably discouraged.
Additional changes were made to the system today and if we continue to see inexplicable large point losses we will have to request tech support to see why. Please continue to report anomalies going forward from today or large point losses. Thanks.
Bob..
Last edited by Speedlimit; Dec 13, 2011 at 09:51 AM.
Dec 13, 2011 | 11:18 PM
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Hey everyone!
First I want to thank each of you who took the time to report your experience with VbExperience. There were two active threads that have become very long with many questions and observations that have been buried with time. The goals of the system are to encourage positive contributions and add some fun while here. Neither appear to being met and in fact having the opposite result. I monitored the VbExperience roll out on two other IB automotive communities before we brought it here. The community experience there was substantially different and I apologize to those who have seen point loses seemingly without a reason and have become understandably discouraged.
Additional changes were made to the system today and if we continue to see inexplicable large point losses we will have to request tech support to see why. Please continue to report anomalies going forward from today or large point losses. Thanks.
Bob..
First I want to thank each of you who took the time to report your experience with VbExperience. There were two active threads that have become very long with many questions and observations that have been buried with time. The goals of the system are to encourage positive contributions and add some fun while here. Neither appear to being met and in fact having the opposite result. I monitored the VbExperience roll out on two other IB automotive communities before we brought it here. The community experience there was substantially different and I apologize to those who have seen point loses seemingly without a reason and have become understandably discouraged.
Additional changes were made to the system today and if we continue to see inexplicable large point losses we will have to request tech support to see why. Please continue to report anomalies going forward from today or large point losses. Thanks.
Bob..
Dec 14, 2011 | 11:05 AM
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I've lost more points than I have gained. LOL today I made what I thought was a valuable contribution to a tech thread and lost over 6,300 points. I'm currently deployed to Afghanistan so logging on each day and making posts isn't going to happen, but I am trying to continue to be a contributing member of the community. Talk about a kick in the nuts when I make a post then lose more points than I have! When the system was first implemented I noticed that it gave me over 10,000 points, I thought for past contributions, but then it took almost everyone of them back. I think the positive reward theory has been lost. LOL Thanks for looking into new ways to invigorate this community but I feel this one has failed miserably.
Josh
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Dec 14, 2011 | 07:38 PM
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I agree completely! If the point system were easy to understand, fair, and offered some benefit to users, it wouldn't be a bad thing, but it isn't any of these things.
Last edited by drb; Dec 14, 2011 at 09:23 PM.
Dec 14, 2011 | 09:45 PM
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Gifted 10 points to Bob as thanks for re-tweaking the system, and requested as friend.. maybe I'll get 5 back 
Willing to bribe for another 50 points if you can get the mobile EvoM site back up and running
Willing to bribe for another 50 points if you can get the mobile EvoM site back up and running
Dec 15, 2011 | 05:29 AM
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All we ask is you have fun and share your knowledge and experiences with our community. Hopefully learning things along the way. Thanks.Bob..
