I was thinking of a potential change to the way the leaderboard is calculated, and I wanted to see what you guys thought. Here is my idea:

Lets say a user gets first place in a game. He gets 20 points for that score on the leaderboard. Now, someone else beats him, but it doesn't take away his original 20 points, it just gives the new guy 20 points.

This method will reward people who have been at your site for a long time, by allowing them to accrue more points. This method will also make people want to jump on new games and play them, so that they can quickly get a good score in it so that they can grab some points.

This method would also allow us to track how many first places a user has gotten since the beginning of their account. A user might have 100 first places over 3 years at your site, or something like that.

What do you guys think?