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I agree, not sure how easy it would be and if it would upset the people at the top.

If they receive permanent awards. They get recognition AND they get motivation the next season to say interesting things.

fair enough, I have worked hard for my massive 96 score and if I lost it I would be a little sad :p

good point. i only have 70pts so i feel for this.

maybe the total accumulated points of all time are also kept. YC doesn't erase any data. its just writing a new database query.

old query: Points = "select count(votes) where user.id = 123"

new method: "select votes, date where user.id = 123" and do some heuristic magic in the model or results datastructure.

or they could just keep it and add this months top users etc and we are all happy :P