RE: RE(2) Yet Another Post on Experience

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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RE(4) Yet Another Post on Experience -- I suck by neshura (Chaplain) on May 22, 2000 at 22:23 UTC
Ack! Basic math! Beyond me! Ignore! hangs head in shame e-mail neshura	[reply]
RE: (5) neshura: Yet Another Post on Experience -- I suck by nuance (Hermit) on May 22, 2000 at 22:30 UTC
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` [download] Which would indeed have given them a crap rating.	[reply] [d/l]
RE: (4) Yet Another Post on Experience by Russ (Deacon) on May 22, 2000 at 23:45 UTC
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	[reply]
RE: (4?) Zero posts ignored. by cciulla (Friar) on May 22, 2000 at 22:57 UTC
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.	[reply]