When the user reputation reaches 1000k, will it be shown as:
- 1000k?
- 1m?
- 1M?
Curiosity killed the cat! ;)
Well, that looks like it will take about another 8 years or so. Calculate the number of 6-to-8 week periods in that time frame for the number of opportunities for the dev team to deal with that oncoming problem.
Thinking that SO is a static chunk of software that is always predictable is a very wrong mental image. They update it daily. Very nice, I used to post to a forum site where updates were only permitted monthly. They invariably broke basic functionality doing so and it would typically take a couple of months to get them to fix the bug. Horrible.
MSDN forums btw.
I would suggest to introduce a new unit:
1000 k = 1 Skeet
The first place the 1 million reputation will be shown is on Area51 for the cumulative reputation of all the SE sites. Currently Jon Skeet is at 248k reputation for all the StackExchange sites.
If he was contributing to all the 21 StackExchange sites and reached the daily reputation cap everyday on all of them, in roughly 180 days he will be at 1 million reputation.
I think they have more than enough time to think about it.
I think this is a long way off, but sure it will be something reasonable like 1m as we currently have 1k.
Jeff is still only at 85.5k so I doubt something like this will be coming soon.
In the spirit of killiviews we have
To be followed by Supah King-Kong Mega MEGA rep
As for how it should be displayed - remember how Super Mario Bros would just show symbols for the number of lives you had after doing the infinite 1-up trick?
m
prefix would imply).The Cat
isn't dead, it just changed its name toGnome
.m
prefix means milli.