Imagine, when you get to 10k rep (obviously the point where you can comment, edit, vote to close and delete, have access to the moderator privileges).. instead of it showing an ever-increasing number, it just shows <blink>awesome</blink>
or something.
What would the ramifications of this be? (both positive and negative)
There's a similar idea of a logarithmic scale for reputation discussed in Podcast 26:
Atwood: And Jon I thought had a very nice considered opinion about this. And he's onto something because, it's like I said; until we have the reputation cap it was sort of a huge looming problem. So I would say that's the number one thing I would look at. That is you have to have really strong limits in the system.
[4:58]
Spolsky: Maybe they should be logarithmic or something like Richter scales?
Atwood: Ya, I thought about that but it just it gets... hairy. It just seems complex at some level versus the one man one vote rule. I mean there's some people who think that the more reputation you have the more your votes should count which I think is extremely bad, like I think that's totally the wrong way to do the system.
Spolsky: Wait wait don't answer that yet because that's a question we have coming up.