Quote by BotFreya
Quote by missy1066As many people have said before, credits are like money, I
think we should be allowed to see how much we actually do have rather than only being shown the amount if it gets lower
than 128...
As was clear from some of the comments on the recent free download quota discussion
thread, many members have gotten into the habit of considering the free download quota as a literal download quota
rather than a freebie.
Regardless of how much you buy, as a little gift, the parlor management puts a juicy red cherry on the top of your ice
cream. That cherry is like the download quota. The staff tosses it in for free as a gift to members, but it definitely
is not the main event; the real substance of your delectable dessert is the ice cream you purchased with your
hard-earned credits.
If you have enough credits such that you can't even see how many you have, I really see no reason why you really
need to know how many credits you have left. Sure, you may want to know, but honestly, you're certainly not going to use it all up soon
(unless you voraciously devour gallery items for breakfast, lunch, and dinner). When you hit 128 credits, you'll
know that you should keep an eye on your expenditures, but even so, you're in no immediate danger.
Besides, I think hiding the figure helps to reduce any incentive for members to hoard credits. Credits are, after all,
meant to be spent, and if you have at least 128 credits, then by all means, eat more ice
cream!
I appreciate that we are given a free download quota of five credits every day, I'm not complaining about this as I
think it is particularly nice for those people that for various reasons are unable to earn enough credits to download
some of the wonderful scans and wallpapers available here, and I do not see this as being the "main event" by
a long shot. I am the type of person that believes that if you purchase something with credits (or whatever) you have
earned, you are inclined to value it more than something that is just given to you on a platter so to speak because you
had to work in order to get the necessary credits... personally I have never regarded the free download quota as a
right... I used mine mainly in order to blow up any gallery items I wanted to comment on, I don't believe you can
give a really fair critique of somebody's work by looking at the little picture that we are shown because you
can't see the finer details in it... even though I only blow these pictures up so that I can comment fairly upon
another member's work, I am still charged credits regardless of whether or not I keep the picture, you're not
concerned about what I do with that picture once I've blown it up with regards to saving it or not, it is entirely
up to me to begin with whether I want to blow this picture up or not, if we want to see a bigger picture, we have to pay
credits which is fine... I think it's very nice that you to give everybody five credits free in order to do things
like this because not everybody has the time to post, or read previous posts that have been made before them in their
entirety... it's especially nice for people who are new to this community etc
The point is, as you have stated yourself, "the real substance of your delectable dessert is the ice cream you
purchased with your hard earned credits" is that it shouldn't matter how many credits a member has, be it high
or low, the point is, I really do think each individual member has a right to see how much they actually have. From my
point of view it doesn't really matter what an individual member decides to do with their credits, whether they sit
on them or go on a spending spree... it doesn't matter if they have more credits than the Bank of England has
money... the point is, I really don't think we should be kept in the dark with regards to how much we have actually
earned... you may think that "hiding the figure helps to reduce any incentive for members to hoard credits"
but does it really matter if they do? What is the point in doing this? Who is actually the beneficiary if they do this?
It just means that they lose out on all the lovely things that Minitokyo has to offer... if you're like me and you
don't download a great deal in the first place, then of course you will end up accumulating more credits than you
use but seeing as the credits a member earns is only good to them, only worth any value here and they can't
transfer or trade them, what does it really matter?
I'm not saying that you should reveal exactly how much you give us for various things, but I think it's wrong
to keep people in the dark like this... you want to encourage more participation on the forums and yet you won't
let people see how much they have gained back in credits from you... people should be able to enjoy this site for what
it is, participate in the forums because they want to, not because they feel they have to earn credits... likewise,
people should feel free to write another people's guest books, participate in groups that they've joined
because they want to, participation in Minitokyo should for each member be an enjoyable experience... not doing just the
things that will earn them credits... participating in Minitokyo should never be a chore for anybody, if it becomes thus
then there's obviously something wrong with the whole system...
You yourselves are putting a lot of emphasis on these credits... for one reason or another, you have decided to
introduce a credit system, I think it is very wrong to withhold this little bit of information from the member to whom
the credits belong to, it is up to each individual member with regards to how they spend it, not those who have created
this credit system... I completely agree with what chingetscook had to say in the post above... hiding a member's
credit value from them sounds very sinister to me... this is meant to be a friendly community, a place where we should
be able to talk about things and have discussions, make friends and just have a good time etc by introducing a credit
system if you are more than willing to put a price on downloading things etc, you should be more than willing to show a
user how much credit they have... by not doing so, you are taking away information that I think should be readily
available to each and every member with regards to their own personal credit level, you are taking away something very
valuable by withholding this information from us... it should be our choice, not yours as to what we do with them... you
cannot control everything, this is a very restrictive move on your part and reduces accountability as chingetscook has
already pointed out...
