Why don't user points go down?
Ok, this doesn't make sense, someone explain this to me:
Blogs have points, users have points, this is good. Blog points appear to be a total for only the past 30 days, anything before that isn't used for the total and only shows up when people ask the blog nicely.
In other words, only the blogs that are good (popular, read, whatever) recently will have points. The ones that are bad (unpopular, unread, whatever) won't have points and will therefore sink to the bottom of the list.
This makes sense, this looks to be a good idea, I even like this idea. Without effort of some sort any given blog won't stay very high in the rankings. Not a perfect system, since points don't necesarily mean best, but all in all I think it's a good way to tell which blogs are good. Won't tell you if blog number 12 is really better then blog number 13, but hopefully blog number 7 is better then blog number 97.
So here's what I want explained: Why don't user points do the same thing?
We have so called 'exiled' users that are above current bloggers in the user chart. As far as I can tell, a user can really only lose points one way, getting trolled by another user.
Take Wisefawn for example. They are number 18 in the user chart, yet they have been banned for almost two months. Am I the only one that finds this odd? Nothing against Wisefawn, I'm not trying to pick on them, it's the point system I find odd.
Now I'm not saying all banned people cause this sort of effect, last time I checked we had someone with a rather high negative score. But it would seem me that it would be better to use the same general scoring system for users as is used for blogs. ie, if you don't keep posting your score drifts towards zero.
Considering that the code exists for the blogs points, it shouldn't be that hard to convert it to the users, but then again, I'm not a programmer. That it wasn't setup this way originally implies a reason, although I can't see it.
So if anyone knows the reason, I'd like to hear it. If anyone thinks it would be better changed, well that would be nice to hear too. Or if you think it's great the way it is, well that's fine too.