@Seedfork and
@dave - re the acorns, I think I understand what you're saying. Well, some of it.
I'm trying not to name names so I'm going to make up a hypothetical.
UserA gives UserB 9 acorns for 1 lonely post made by UserB. (Apparently UserA really liked that post.)
UserB sees that UserA has given her 9 acorns. She sees this in what she thinks are 3 different places: in her profile, in her system messages which state that UserA doled out the 9 acorns for the post, and on the post itself.
Later (days later to be a little more precise) UserB notices in her profile "Items given special acorn tips: 1 received". Aghast, she thinks that UserA has 'revoked' the acorns. And it occurs to her that maybe she didn't thank UserA for those 9 acorns. So UserB hightails it to the post which prompted the gift of 9 acorns. Sure enough. The post still shows that UserA gave her 9 acorns. (But wait. Maybe memory is not serving your narrator on that last bit.)
Scratching her head in confusion, she posts on the Site Talk Forum that there appears to be trouble right here in River City. (Sorry. Couldn't resist. It's a favorite phrase in a favorite song.)
So . . . from
@Seedfork's reply, it sounds as if UserA could give the 9 acorns and then regift them either in total or individually to others. Or even squirrel them away. Can this be true? Can anyone give out any number of acorns even if they haven't accumulated any? If true, than there's going to be a lot of acorn giving by UserB b/c everyone has been so nice, not to mention tolerant.
And if she understands what
@dave has said, there's apparently some kind of
law rule whereby giving too many acorns at one time to one user for one post is bad b/c it's akin to 'gaming the system'. Since UserB is new at this acorn game, she scratches her head again (habit, not lice) and skeptically takes comfort that per
@Seedfork or
@dave her total number of acorns has not changed. She admittedly does not remember the total in her profile where it says "You have X number of acorns in your account." And she sheepishly admits that she probably didn't read the "(What's this?)". But what's up with this prohibition about gaming the system? (indirect quote)
Did I get this right?
