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in thread Yet Another Post on Experience

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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RE: RE(2) Yet Another Post on Experience
by ZZamboni (Curate) on May 22, 2000 at 22:13 UTC
    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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        I thought your maths was right first time I read it. Basically I didn't see the error until someone pointed it out, we were both probably expecting 
        $rating = $number_of_posts / $XP

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        Which would indeed have given them a crap rating.
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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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      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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