But what does noderep measure? Nothing useful. The largest correlation noderep has with anything is "number of times viewed". Just look at your own nodes, see which ones got a high noderep. I bet most of them are in threads that have been frontpaged, and are posts that you posted relatively early in the threads. Almost all the time when I look at my list of writings, and spot a node with high noderep, it's in a thread that was frontpaged, and that I had an early reply in a thread. Replying in a thread that's two days old will hardly give you any XP, no matter how good it was.

Another factor that plays in role in making nodereputation useless is the pressure to vote. People seem to eager to vote, get rewarded with XP to vote, and lots of people even use up all the votes they get on a day.

I can see merit in having somekind of node reputation. I don't seen any merit in the system we have now.

Abigail

In reply to Re: Googlish approach to voting/XP? by Abigail-II
in thread Googlish approach to voting/XP? by ajdelore

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