Mainly, I started this contest so my crytsals woudn\'t go to waste, because the only weapon that has any appeal to me whatsoever is the galkard (and there\'s no way I\'m going to get enough crystsals for that).

well... we could all contribute so that someone could get a galkard, just for that purpose. but then if we wanted just anyone to have a galkard just for the hell of it, Kada could buy two (26,233 rubies?, i think), swallowman(!) could also buy two (22,690) and Havena could get one (18930).

but anyway, if we wanted the winner of this contest to get one, I\'d give my (puny) stash of gems also.

Mogura\'s idea is alot like the Karma system used on http://www.Slashdot.org. (im looking for a link to a page that descibes the whole system, bare with me)

anyway, on this site we probally would only rate users, and people could chose not to see the posts of users that have negative Karma. problem with that is that its like banning users, because they would have no way to get better karma.  perhaps a simpler way would just be to vote on an individual post basis, and if enough people voted that the post sucked, it would be automaticaly removed, and the author would lose the points he had gotten from it.