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a "give points" program

Discussion in 'Suggestions' started by johncarl, Jan 7, 2010.

  1. johncarl

    johncarl Well-Known Member

    when a friend is in need of points and you really have to give him some

    lets say

    i have 200 points only
    and i want to download a 400 mb file

    i can just ask someone to give me 200 points..

    and you can limit on how much one can give a day and such.
     
  2. johnx

    johnx Well-Known Member

    I was thinking about this.
    But I thought that many people would start topics saying if anyone can give them points.
    Which may be annoying and the mods would have to maybe move a lot of topics.
    If people don't post them in the correct areas.
     
  3. gettajob0007

    gettajob0007 Well-Known Member

    they could open a section called "point requests"
     
  4. johnx

    johnx Well-Known Member

    Possibly I guess.
    Also maybe people will PM heaps of users asking points.
     
  5. gettajob0007

    gettajob0007 Well-Known Member

    hmm that would be annoying.
     
  6. mds64

    mds64 Well-Known Member

    Prehaps the ability to share points via pm isn't a bad idea.

    Though I personally wouldn't give my 8000 points away unless I got something out of it-that's my policy.


    I do admit I never use mine simply because I got most of what I wanted already...




    But for the other download hungry members, this could be useful-BUT it may add strain to servers to say...one favoured user who keeps getting all the points.

    Or someone might some sort of scam like "plz my points don't regenerate plz send som more I really want just one game, 50 points isn't too much right?"


    If it works on the streets-it may work here.



    Just saying what i think is all-wether or not it could happen here depends on how stupid smart the users are.
     
  7. meganova

    meganova Well-Known Member

    People can abuse it.
     
  8. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    Not happening. it would just get abused. People would create loads of accounts and send all the free 500 starting points to one account.
     
  9. dedboy

    dedboy Guest

    As I saw the title of this topic, I offhand though of about twenty five different ways this could be abused. People selling their points, trading, even gambling. Too much to go wrong for it to ever work.
     
  10. theunderling

    theunderling Well-Known Member

    There is a simple solution-become a Premium Member.