I like the concept, but I think it's being approached wrongly.

Firstly, I'd be for adding the capacity to filter and sort nodes on reputation, if it were user-configurable to an extreme. Secondly, as you said, new nodes should be exempt from the filters.

However, there is one big issue: it would cause top-heavy loading on node rep. Better-rated nodes would increase in reputation because they are more visible. That leads me to say "nay" to the whole Node Rep filter.

If we're going to filter on reputation, perhaps we could add an option for users to filter out posters who have an average node rep significantly under $NORM (and who are not new, have made a minimum number of posts, etc.). By allowing new users (new by quantity, not time) to be unfiltered, it gives them a chance to build rep. If they can't post at least an average of half of $NORM on a regular basis, they aren't worth listening to.

However, even that filtering is a solution in search of a problem; they only thing I care about skipping would be spam and flamewars. I rarely see either, and serious spam is Reaped anyhow.

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In reply to Re: Filter by Node Rep by radiantmatrix
in thread Filter by Node Rep by edan

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