In what is possibly our best kept secret - the staff at GBAtemp are proud to announce the launch of the GBAtemp Experience Points system![prebreak][/prebreak]

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GBAtemp Experience Points

Before today, you were able to Like a post on our forum to show appreciation for a helpful post by another forum member, but ultimately the Likes gained by members didn't account for anything.

Now, with the GBAtemp Experience Points system we are introducing a levelling system that is powered by your content.

With the XP system we are pushing to encourage a more positive forum experience by providing more incentive to those who contribute to the GBAtemp community!

Gaining XP

XP is gained whenever you post helpful and constructive content - such as by posting a helpful reply; creating a popular thread; submitting a review or tutorial; getting a User Submitted News article promoted to the front page among many other ways...

To see a full and maintained list of ways to gain (and lose) XP please follow see the XP help page.

Every time your content gets recognised your current XP count will increase by a certain pre-determined value depending on the content.

Level Up!

When your XP count reaches a certain threshold you will be promoted to the Next Level. Just how many levels are there? That's for you to find out!

You can keep an eye on your current XP and level in your Account Menu or thread-side postbit, as shown in the image below.

When you level up you will receive a forum notification alerting you!

What treats are there in store for high ranking members? Besides bragging rights, the GBAtemp staff are working on perks so stay tuned for more information...

Leaderboards

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If you wish to compare your current standing with other GBAtemp members you can do so by following the link to the XP leaderboard below.

On this page you can see detailed statistics on other members such as their current XP and level and when they will level up next.

Is this a fresh start?

No. We value all our members previous efforts in making GBAtemp a successful and bustling resource of information and have taken previous contributions into account. We have assigned all members a current level based on previous contributions and activity. To see a detailed explanation of how this was calculated, please see the XP help page.

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We hope you enjoy using the GBAtemp Experience Points system and hope you find it a fun way to take part at GBAtemp.net

Please note, we are still fine tuning the system so don't be surprised if you see any sudden changes to your XP count - we are also working on many other ways to gain XP and these will be rolled out as they become available.

For a complete rundown on the new system please see the XP help page linked below.

As always with the launch of a new feature, please do let us know if you encounter any bugs or issues with the XP system in the thread below.

Most XP Leaderboard
XP & Levelling Up Help page

 

[Quantumcat]

I'm proud to see how many users have embraced the XP system and all the positive and constructive feedback we've been given

Note that this is only the start and we have more ideas in the future, such as rewards, more ways to earn XP, extra XP events and more.

Maybe have a list in the OP about what ideas have been proposed and maybe their state (will do, maybe, and won't do) so people don't post the same ideas over and over.

That being said, some more ideas and one I already said:

• Your post being liked by higher-ranked members has more of an influence on your XP. Not absolute - the bigger the difference between your rank and the rank of the member that liked your post the more it influences XP. This means it becomes harder for higher leveled users to level up so there's a growth curve (there's fewer people above them) and there's little incentive to make new accounts because they'd have little to no affect on your XP.
• Being put on a user's ignore list is negative XP (revoked if they take them off)
• Posts tagged with Release have a bigger influence on your XP. ie a smaller barrier to getting the bonus XP from having a lot of likes or views.
• Mods have the ability to invisibly tag posts as useless and the likes don't count (someone posts something controversial that gets a lot of likes but is very unhelpful)
• The ability for new members to post images etc are tied to XP not post count (so spamming doesn't work). You'd only need the tiniest of XP of course.
• Your ratio of likes to posts counts somehow - if you have say over 500 posts and you have more likes than posts that means something. Not sure how to count it though. Edit: what about if you reach 50% ratio you get a 1% XP bonus, 75% ratio 2% XP bonus, 100% ratio 3% bonus, 200% ratio 10% bonus

 

[Jonna]

While this is a cool idea and a good implementation, I'm really worried about how it goes down the line. Almost every one currently is positive and endearing/joking to each other, but it feels like eventually these levels are going to become slightly hostile or becoming elitism that leads to more ignorance.
I'm not saying this is their attitude or personality that they would do this, but due to the human nature of this sort of system, I feel as though if I had done everything on this forum the same way after the levels had been implemented, higher level members like @VinsCool and @TotalInsanity4 wouldn't have even looked at my profile, never mind post on it. I have high respect for them, and again, not saying they would actively ignore lower level members, but might subconsciously do it.

At the same time, I used to be admin of a popular forum a few years back and know that trying out new things will take time to see if it performs well or not, so I think I'll be cautiously optimistic... or optimistically pessimistic, if that somehow makes sense.

 

[mudassirul]

Bach! member for 8 years and only level 3.

 

[SonicfanCEMUTesting]

Oh cool, it's like playing a fully functional real video game-like web browser RPG game!

 

[TotalInsanity4]

While this is a cool idea and a good implementation, I'm really worried about how it goes down the line. Almost every one currently is positive and endearing/joking to each other, but it feels like eventually these levels are going to become slightly hostile or becoming elitism that leads to more ignorance.
I'm not saying this is their attitude or personality that they would do this, but due to the human nature of this sort of system, I feel as though if I had done everything on this forum the same way after the levels had been implemented, higher level members like @VinsCool and @TotalInsanity4 wouldn't have even looked at my profile, never mind post on it. I have high respect for them, and again, not saying they would actively ignore lower level members, but might subconsciously do it.

At the same time, I used to be admin of a popular forum a few years back and know that trying out new things will take time to see if it performs well or not, so I think I'll be cautiously optimistic... or optimistically pessimistic, if that somehow makes sense.

Not true at all, if I catch an alert that someone's followed me I try to take the time to look at their profile, and I usually follow back if they look like cool people

I honestly don't think this will become elitist in nature; before this, there was total likes, and that didn't lead to much other than a few on-the-nose jokes here and there. I feel like the only people that would use this as a "gatekeeping" tool are people who would have found another way to do it, anyway

 

[Jonna]

Not true at all, if I catch an alert that someone's followed me I try to take the time to look at their profile, and I usually follow back if they look like cool people

I honestly don't think this will become elitist in nature; before this, there was total likes, and that didn't lead to much other than a few on-the-nose jokes here and there. I feel like the only people that would use this as a "gatekeeping" tool are people who would have found another way to do it, anyway

That is true as well. As I've said, new features need time to see how they progress, so if this remains positive with the majority of every one, then I will be quite happy!

 

[GameSystem]

• Mods have the ability to invisibly tag posts as useless and the likes don't count (someone posts something controversial that gets a lot of likes but is very unhelpful)

I laughed out loud at this one. Here, have a like. I can't see it working though because you'd pretty much immediately notice if you got 10 likes on a post, but your EXP didn't go up at all. You'd then think all the mods are out to get you, and things might get hostile/stupid.

 

[Yepi69]

Maybe this will discourage shit posters from staying off EoF due to not gaining any experience for it

 

[TotalInsanity4]

I laughed out loud at this one. Here, have a like. I can't see it working though because you'd pretty much immediately notice if you got 10 likes on a post, but your EXP didn't go up at all. You'd then think all the mods are out to get you, and things might get hostile/stupid.

If your life comes to the point where you're concerned that you aren't "leveling up" quickly enough on a social media forum you really might need to consider reevaluating your priorities

 

[Heran Bago]

Thank you very much staff. Something like a Karma system is something I've wanted to see on here for a long time.

 

[bradzx]

Is this some kind of joke? Who care about level up thingy on site? It seem someone is really jealous from other website have exp feature on site and decide to make one too in here. Sorry but I don't buy it. I know this is real, but only I can say this is it is a joke.

 

[VinsCool]

Is this some kind of joke? Who care about level up thingy on site? It seem someone is really jealous from other website have exp feature on site and decide to make one too in here. Sorry but I don't buy it. I know this is real, but only I can say this is it is a joke.

Doesn't seem like a joke to me.
Cannot please everyone ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[bradzx]

Doesn't seem like a joke to me.
Cannot please everyone ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Soon or later, they will remove it. I promise you that. It won't stay forever.

 

[Jonna]

Soon or later, they will remove it. I promise you that. It won't stay forever.

So how will you compensate us if your promise is broken and it stays?

 

[bradzx]

So how will you compensate us if your promise is broken and it stays?

Then why this site keep changing and not stay like it always do? They never keep it or stay forever.

 

[Scarlet]

Soon or later, they will remove it. I promise you that. It won't stay forever.

No need for the pessimism friend ♪ The system in itself isn't exactly any different to likes. Just think of the levels the same way you think of the medals. All this really does is add extra events to incentivise using underappreciated areas of the site, such as user reviews, user news, tutorials, and the Ask section. Tell me what part of that will lead to it being removed? lol

 

[bradzx]

No need for the pessimism friend ♪ The system in itself isn't exactly any different to likes. Just think of the levels the same way you think of the medals. All this really does is add extra events to incentivise using underappreciated areas of the site, such as user reviews, user news, tutorials, and the Ask section. Tell me what part of that will lead to it being removed? lol

I will not say it front of anyone. I see enough. This is not first I notice something change and removed. Facebook and PureZC are similar as this site.

 

[Scarlet]

I will not say it front of anyone. I see enough. This is not first I notice something change and removed. Facebook and PureZC are similar as this site.

I mean if you have genuine feedback or criticism, let your voice be heard. The admins of the site care about what users think. Simply saying "this will fail and I'm not going to tell you why" is useful to nobody and just makes you seem irritating to a lot of people.

 

[bradzx]

I mean if you have genuine feedback or criticism, let your voice be heard. The admins of the site care about what users think. Simply saying "this will fail and I'm not going to tell you why" is useful to nobody and just makes you seem irritating to a lot of people.

I wish I can give them my feedback, but I rather not push my limit for my opinion for this feature. I just give them small bad attitude for my feedback about this feature. So that why I don't want to get trouble.

Let it say, I have bad habit for using bad language on this site in the past. I am sure some of staff on this site know I am talking about.

 

[Jonna]

Then why this site keep changing and not stay like it always do? They never keep it or stay forever.

That didn't answer my question, man.