in reply to Yet Another Post on Experience

I like the idea. Perhaps you should also include the zeros in the equation.

A poster who consistently receives positive votes is (?) more readable than one who rarely has a voteable post, even if the few posts which do receive votes get lots of them.

(sheesh, what a terrible sentence construction, please interpret...) ;-)

I would like to see 

$Rating = $SumOfAllVotes / $NumberOfPosts

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A poster who consistently gets positive votes on most of his/her posts should be rewarded for the quality of the submissions. We already reward volume in Saints In Our Book, lets add a way to reward quality.

Russ

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RE(2) Yet Another Post on Experience
by neshura (Chaplain) on May 22, 2000 at 21:41 UTC
    That would put vroom and merlyn's rating at something ridiculously small. But still, this is an interesting idea. Positive reinforcement is good -- can't have fewer than 0 stars (I hope). As opposed to XP -- Worst Nodes makes me a little ill, actually. It's not really mean-spirited, more like tough love, but I still am not a fan.

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      That would put vroom and merlyn's rating at something ridiculously small.

      Why? Most of vroom's and merlyn's posts get a good number of positive votes, from what I have seen, so they would be rated high. Or am I missing something?

      The problem with such a scheme is that it would discourage posts like this one, that are not likely to be voted on, because they are just part of an ongoing discussion. Such a post is good for the discussion, but it would damage my rating.

      --ZZamboni

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        Ack! Basic math! Beyond me! Ignore!

        hangs head in shame

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        That's why I think that if something like this were implemented, zero-rep wrtiteups would be ignored in the final calculation.

        That way, you can still comment on something without yer "stars" being affected.

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        True, that would discourage posts like these...

        Although, if you have one good post (with lots of positive votes), it will "make up" for a bunch of these zero vote posts...

        My thought is this: when Thaddeus Thoughtful (who posts once a month, but always gets a gazillion votes) posts, I want to notice it immediately. There are some names we recognize, simply because we see then often. I'd like a way to emphasize the infrequent, but high-quality poster.

        Russ

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