Making Boyah Great Again: Controversial Opinion #2

[strongbad]

Abstract

Lüts are under-utilized and need to be revamped. By implementing a lüts 2.0 alongside Boyah 2.0, we can successfully raise member satisfaction and even influence the overall activity of the site. lüts 2.0 requires a restructuring of the current wealth and implementation of new lüt/member policies.

We all know and love our lüts. They are a consistent source of humor and sometimes even a bargaining tool. Some people even use them to access Boyah's Aracde! However, as the climate of Boyah has changed, the lüt as we know it has remained the same, despite inflation kicking in at dramatic levels. Currently, the top 5% of Boyah is in control of 95% of the forums lüts and because of this, users with a lower posting frequency are less interested in our beloved currency. Members such as Kaz and Zidone have so many lüts in their respective banks that many members don't even attempt to join their ranks. The lüt has effectively become meaningless and is often laughed at.

I will outline my lüt 2.0 proposal in a few simple steps:

1. The purge

Lüts will be reset and lüt 2.0 will become the new currency. For all intents and purposes, lüt 2.0 will still be referred to as the lüt. New criteria for acquiring lüts in terms of lüts per post or even per character will be set in place (said criteria is TBD). The bank will also be purged.

2. The quota purge

Another essential system to Boyah, quota displays a members recent activity and determines what members are keeping Boyah alive. However, quota has no tangible meaning and is used merely as bragging rights. Under lüts 2.0, the lüt pool will be reset every month. This has a few advantages. First of all, Boyagers will have less of a reason to hoard their lüts like the likes of Kaz and Zidone, which will encourage more lüt exchange, creating a healthy economy. Second, members will receive something tangible in exchange for their posts. Having both lüts and quota is redundant overall. Eliminating one of them will make Boyah 2.0 cleaner and more appealing to the new Web 2.0 generation. Lüts can then be displayed as a part of a total (x/total, where x is current lüts and total is amount acquired over the past month), so spending your lüts will not take away from your image of being an active poster.

3. Incentives and uses

Currently, the Aracde is the only tangible use of the lüt. Rank images will be taken away, and instead the highest lüt earner each month will have a special rank image showing that they were a high earner for the prior month. Having only one user with a rank image will highlight the effects moreso than having everyone having. Because there will be no tangible prizes, it is important to come up with more uses for user's lüts. The Aracde pass will remain under the proposal, but it will need to change. I think that resetting the scores or replacing games could be a good idea, but more about this will come in my next proposal.

The shop will also need to be revamped to stay appropriate with the new system. Make purchases only achievable within a month's posting limits (certain things will require you to be a power user for that month), and keep a static inventory. This will make the shop more interesting instead of everything being easily affordable or definitely not affordable except for select members.

Thank you for your time,

strongbad

[Daddy]

but a lut per character system discourages shitpostin

[strongbad]

yeah but does that actually do anything at all

like i said, luts are so inflated that they are essentially meaningless

[Daddy]

Luts are meaningless because SMFShop was poorly written and many of the items have serious security flaws. I've gone through and rewritten some to fix them but others are too much effort for me to deal with.

I've fixed SQL injection on some, but others like Change Name have XSS, which lawlz and felt have demonstrated through annoying methods.

This is why the items are so expensive and don't get restocked.

[C.Mongler]

we should be able to spend lüts on visits from JMV

[Socks]

you guys sock, if you fuck with luts and arcade i might just have to join tec. shop is useless so that you can mess with.

[Daddy]

we should be able to spend lüts on visits from JMV

You can spend dollars to buy me plane tickets or bus tickets and ill do that

[C.Mongler]

you guys sock, if you fuck with luts and arcade i might just have to join tec. shop is useless so that you can mess with.

no, u sock

[Hiro]

you guys sock, if you fuck with luts and arcade i might just have to join tec. shop is useless so that you can mess with.

no, u sock