Re^4: On the serious issue of XP devaluation and other tangentially related or unrelated passing thoughts

Trying to take you serious,

I enjoy reading daily bests and having threads sorted by reps.

The phrase "it's only a game" was phrased for people overreacting by thinking it's a serious measure of competence.

(And we all know nothing was better distributed over mankind than intelligence, everybody thinks he got enough. ..)

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)

Je suis Charlie!}

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Re^5: On the serious issue of XP devaluation and other tangentially related or unrelated passing thoughts by oiskuu (Hermit) on May 23, 2016 at 22:52 UTC
I'm sorry, you've kind of lost me there... Are you saying perhaps that there's no need for a feature such as highlighted answers, and there never will be? That you are perfectly satisfied with the way submissions on PM are scored and presented? That nothing can be further improved?¹⁾ FYI: I select my reading from RAT, sometimes from Sections. Best and Worst Nodes are like the last page of a magazine—comic panels and amusement stuff. 1) I think there are several biases in reputation; they've been pointed out before. Immediate gratification gets votes. More specialized topics get less. IOW, a node that helps a few people just a little outweighs a node that helps one a lot. That's what you get from having a single metric. Edit. Check the parent also, I've updated.	[reply]
Re^6: On the serious issue of XP devaluation and other tangentially related or unrelated passing thoughts by LanX (Saint) on May 24, 2016 at 10:41 UTC
Well that's all above me ... What I say is that introducing a completely new game like poker is like manipulating the DNA of PM, with a high risk of lethal mutations and raptures of the force. My primary source is RAT view, too. But I was talking about votes and yes ~~_reps_~~² XPs have biases! But XPs² are not really important, or do you think that BUK is better or more influential or (...fill in ...) than you? XPs² are meant to keep people interested and to manage certain basic achievable rights. I showed a way to find votes per reply-level, now you could bother to rank monks by "votes per level" by elaborating a weight factor a for a reply level, and thus compute a new (but alternative) ranking. (good luck!) Actually I think that's a rather academic discussion since we have more urgent problems. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :) Je suis Charlie!} update ²) confusion fixed updated most probably we meant different things, never mind.	[reply]

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