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I agree that your suggestion is certainly workable...and, yes, it's certainly more likely to happen in a small community. I, too, live in such.
Already, I've had three notes boomerang on me; I've made note of them...when I first entered them...and when they returned. I haven't entered them yet in my profile; there's no question, though, that I can and, to some extent, that covers the situation. However, by going that way, the only time that someone will realize that a note boomeranged is if a tracker happens across that tidbit in my personal profile.
I would suggest that the site be altered in such a way that the boomerang effect would get recorded in the "hit history" of the particular note but in such a way that future trackers who hit that note could quickly and easily "see" that the note had previously boomeranged.
It seems to me that the boomerang effect is, at least, as interesting as some of the scenarios that the site is already recording. (How, for example, could some of the entries for the 2004 $20 note EYG81***23 or the 2002 $5 note HNN58***90 be justifiably worth recording?)
I suppose there's always the chance that someone will consciously falsify his/her own records...but, I suspect, there's some degree of that, in some form or other, going on any way. (Who could create a system so fool-proof that there was absolutely no way to "get around" it?)
I don't see recording the boomerang effect much different to a note being entered multiple times in the same community. (Let's face it, that COULD [and please understand that I am not implying that I think that that is going on] simply be some buddies passing a note around among themselves; couldn't any, so-called, "hit" be created by buddies in different communities?)
If we're working on the honour system (and, it seems to me, that that's what this site operates on) I'm probably less likely to consciously create a boomerang effect than I am to consciously create some fake "hits" (since, as suggested, the boomerang effect wouldn't affect the CMT score).
Well, BD (if I can call you such, Mr. Kingston), my apologies for unloading on you like this...but, if this topic is to be discussed, it has to get discussed somewhere.
Respectfully,
Roger eroom29
[ message was edited on: 2009/10/01 ]
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