Re: How do you conserve votes?

Well, there's at least one saint with less than 10 posts. Now, that would mean an average of over 300 xp per posting. But, if you care to waste a few votes, you'll see the average is more around 5 xp/post.

Now, were did the other points come from? ;-) If you look at the lists of saints, there are a fair number of them with a relative low number of posts. You can do the math yourself.

Voting just because someone made the effort of posting seems silly to me. What's the point of voting then? The thrill of pushing some radio and submit buttons? If not, the process could be easily automated. Just give everyone X votes for each post they make, where X depends on the number of visitors.

I don't care much about XP, but I do see some validy in number of votes per article. Unfortunally, since most numbers will remain hidden, its usefullness is extremely limited.

Abigail

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Re: Re: How do you conserve votes? by benn (Vicar) on Apr 24, 2003 at 13:05 UTC
Well, there's at least one saint with less than 10 posts. Good on them - they've obviously been diligently attending the Monastery for well over the aforementioned ( You can do the math yourself I did-ish..) 18 months. Maybe they don't write perl - maybe they don't even program at all - there are many sysadmins / db designers who still contribute here. Maybe they don't feel that their written thoughts are worth sharing - but their opinion as reflected by voting is still important. Maybe they don't care at all about the fact that they've managed to accumulate sainthood over the years... Voting just because someone made the effort of posting seems silly to me... You missed my point, I think. I wasn't advocating anything of the sort. Voting is a way of encouraging participation, and hopefully improving the level of debate by indicating what the community finds helpful or not. Personally, I very rarely downvote, prefering reward to punishment (unlike yourself, who I presume was the downvoter of my previous reply, and will undoubtedly be downvoting this one too. If that's your style though, then that's fine...). I upvote nodes that are well written, that contain useful information, and occasionally (Poetry for instance, which I simply love the principle of), like Everest, for just 'being there'. I don't care much about XP... You seem to care about other people's though - complaining about saints-who-don't-post and downvoting...maybe you could organise a campaign to downvote all nodes of saints that are 'not worthy' - convince 1000 other monks, and you'll have them back down to initiate in no time. I understand that it must be nice for you to keep seeing yourself floating at the top of the 'Other Users' nodelet - you contribute extensively, if occasionally negatively, to the Monastery, and you obviously feel justified in your opinion of what a saint 'should be'. For others though, voting may be the most useful contribution they can make on that particular day, and so enjoy just being able to reward others and help them reach your dizzy heights :) Eagerly awaiting your --, Ben. PS - I'd upvote your reply simply for being thoughtful and raising the level of debate, but I've already used up today's quota - I'll have to wait until tomorrow now :) B	[reply]
Re: How do you conserve votes? by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Apr 24, 2003 at 13:32 UTC
I'm not complaing about saints. I'm just pointing out the limited value of the entire voting system. I don't have an opinion of what saints should be, but I know they are not necessarely what many people think they are. And this discussion only reconfirms that. I've always said that XP has no relationship to one's ability to program in Perl, and that it is therefore silly to give more weight to a post of someone with a high level that to one with a lower level. As for an "other users" nodelet, I don't have that nodelet turned on. Why should I care who has made a request to perlmonks in the last $NUM minutes? Abigail	[reply]
Re(2)How do you conserve votes? by Ovid (Cardinal) on Apr 24, 2003 at 16:25 UTC
Amen to that! I work hard, I push products out the door and generally do a good job, but I've had too many people think that my XP makes me some sort of Perl God. I tell 'em I'm not and they just respond that I'm being modest. I can't win. I like being here, helping people out and learning (I've had more than a few misperceptions corrected), but I do wish people would remember that my XP is a largely a reflection of people liking my writing style and not my Perl ability, per se. Cheers, Ovid New address of my CGI Course. Silence is Evil (feel free to copy and distribute widely - note copyright text)	[reply]
Re: Re(2)How do you conserve votes? by kelan (Deacon) on Apr 25, 2003 at 14:09 UTC
Re^$foo: How do you conserve votes? by benn (Vicar) on Apr 24, 2003 at 14:04 UTC
/me bows to the wisdom of St Abigail-II, completely misses the point and promises to upvote this one too, simply 'cos you're holier-than-me :) I never got round to tuning my "other users" nodelet off - personally I like it - it gives the site more of a 'community feel' - the whole "wandering the corridors" metaphor. For thine is the coding The bugs and the beauty For Larry and Larry Amen Ben Xxx. PS...Wayhay - my 100th writeup - I'm no slacker :) B.	[reply]