Cookies represent a member's popularity in the forum. If a member does a good thing to you, you give him a cookie. If he does the opposite, you can eat a cookie from him.
I won't list the bad things cos that's up for you to think... Meanwhile, good things are pretty easy to recognize like contributing helpful links or news.
Eating a cookie doesn't mean you get the cookie. It just gets lost in your stomach!
Cookies can be traded for money to be used in the shop that will open here in the forum in the future. I'll announce when you can trade cookies for money.
There's a
time limit between cookie-giving and eating. I've increased it to
5 hours. Let me give you an example...
SLi has 1 cookie. He posts fresh news about Tsubasa so I give him 1 cookie. SLi now has 2 cookies. 
Later, I found out that the news wasn't about Tsubasa after all! 
Just useless stuff and he even posted it in the wrong forum.
So what can I do? I eat the cookie I just gave him and eat one more to punish him for the wrong deed. Basically, if you've just given him a cookie and then within the time limit you clicked on his "Eat a cookie" link, 2 cookies will be taken from him. The forum will assume that you made a mistake of giving him a cookie and that you really meant to eat a cookie. So two cookies will be taken from him instead of just one. 
<-- SLi
So, if you accidentally clicked on the "Give a cookie" link, don't eat a cookie from him right away cos it will take 2 cookies not just one! Wait for the time limit to pass then after that you can take back the cookie you accidentally gave him. It's a lot of hassle so better yet forget about it. Anyway, it's just 1 cookie. Just be more careful next time. 
So what's with the time limit?It's there to prevent abuse. You can't keep on giving or eating cookies to/from a member without waiting for the time limit to pass.
For example,
after eating a cookie from Member A you could do the following:
1. Give a cookie or eat a cookie from any other member
except Member A.
2. Give a cookie to Member A
within the time limit. Reverses your previous action and gives 1 cookie to Member A. (means you made a mistake and you really wanted to give him a cookie)
3. Wait for 5 hours (the time limit) and give/eat a cookie to/from Member A again. It will add/subtract a cookie to/from him normally.
I hope everything's clear now. The forum logs all the giving and eating of cookies so I can find out if anyone abuses the system. That's why I hope everyone will try to be reasonable with their cookie decisions.
Happy cookie-giving and eating! P.S. Don't eat too much...Â
-Little Wolf's edit-
You need to have
300 posts to be able to give/eat cookies. But please don't spam the forums to achieve that post count. The forums will be closely monitored for abuses. We won't increase the post requirement anytime soon... not at least until most of the members have high post counts.
