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:''This is just a proposition, not policy. See the [[User talk:Alerante/Point_system|talk page]] for all discussion.''

After taking the [[Wikipedia:Wikipediholic|Wikipediholic]] test for the fourth time, I suddenly, for an inexplicable reason, had a brain spark. Why not use a point system to determine who can do what? Perhaps this was related to my browsing of [[GameFAQs]], which also uses such a system for its permissions.

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*Bureaucrats are not needed because sysops will be made by the consensus of contributors.
*More respected users are naturally given more weight, ensuring that one cannot simply create a bunch of [[sock puppet]]s to inflate their rating unfairly.


==Possible objections==

*Doesn't this create a [[caste system]] of sorts?<br /><br />Yes, but there is already some vestige of that in the titles of sysop, bureaucrat, etc. In my opinion, one's rating should be hidden from other users and only visible to themselves.⏎
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==Miscellanea==

I've held off on allowing [[Wikipedia:Developer|Developer]] privileges to be granted by this. The people who run the server should be able to protect its integrity.

<small>[ [[User:Alerante|alerante]] | [[User_talk:Alerante|&#x201c;&#x201d;]] 23:11, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC) ]</small>