Re^4: Googlish approach to voting/XP?

Oh, I'm not saying it's measuring anything tangible. However, there's one case where noderep as by the current system is useful: nodes with rep < -1, esp rep < -4 or so.

It works quite well as a deterrent for "fluff" and a way to control the tone. While it doesn't prevent anonymous trolling, I've found that that is mostly ignored here. Overall, PM has a striking tendency to put out flames quite quickly. I've very rarely seen the tone go beyond heated debated.

To me, that's a big part of the appeal of PM.

Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re: Googlish approach to voting/XP? by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Aug 07, 2003 at 19:52 UTC
However, there's one case where noderep as by the current system is useful: nodes with rep < -1, esp rep < -4 or so. How so? I mean, it might be useful if you could skip the nodes with negative XP, but in the perlmonks I visit, I don't see the reputation of a node until I vote on it. And unless I'm snobbish enough to go to the page listing my write ups often, I don't see the reputation of my nodes either. So how does a negative node reputation help, as you have to put in quite some effort to actually see the reputation of a node?	[reply]
Re^6: Googlish approach to voting/XP? by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Aug 08, 2003 at 00:12 UTC
By the loss of XP, in the current system. If we got rid of XP, we'd have to have a different venue. Yes, I know it isn't flawless. The entire system isn't flawless nor attempts or even claims to be. But saying "I have a lot of nodes with high reputations" is a marginally more useful statement than saying "I have a lot of XP" which is completely worthless. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]