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Imagine No Points!

Once again one of my newer favorite voices on SCN has caused me to launch the ultimate response to his question: http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/20660 The post was about why have the number of active contributors measured by points dropped and do we care. My answer is I would love to see that number drop to zero. Whoa.. you mean no contributions on SCN? Actually what I mean is that points are no longer rewarded period. Y'all know if you are reading this how points evolved on SCN. The problem is that in order to move the community forward we need to grow beyond points for contributions. We must acknowledge to grow quality contributions we need to eliminate the point motivations. Now everyone is going to say points are a currency or points motivate people, or without points things would stop happening. Guess the sky won't fall if we got rid of the points and figured out a new system of exchange. What I propose is that you need to earn the right to ask b