The general consensus of senior monks has been that letting people know the rep of a node before voting on it unfairly skews voting, in that it can lead to "bandwagon" voting.

Ah. As with Best Nodes -

By the way — Please don't upvote these nodes just because other monks thought they were good. If you do, their node reputations will increase — but then we won't really be showcasing the best nodes.

But then, if "bandwagon" voting, or "voting ad hominem" are such an issue, let's disable the "Highest/Lowest Reputation First" options in the "Order by" combo box on Perl Monks User Search, if the invoking user and the user param are different. That would be consistent. OTOH, that sorting feature has been in place for some time now, and if somebody is somehow driven to downvote lowest / upvote highest node in reputation for a user, they would certainly not constrain the search to e.g. meditations, but would look at all kinds.

Furthermore, I've seen some links in homenodes having "My best nodes" and "My worst nodes" linking to Perl Monks User Search with orderby=hr and orderby=lr respectively, and we would break that if we removed sorting by rep.

Why do you want to know the reps of a user's nodes?
I don't want to. I just want a way to constrain the type of nodes as you pointed out, for something like the following URL chain: I read a node, find it interesting, go to the Monk's homenode and read it; next I want to know what else she wrote and click on the link next to "Writeups:". Then, in Perl Monks User Search, I often want to constrain the search to the node type I've read in the first place. Sorting those by rep won't tell me what reputation a particular node has, except if I've already voted on its two adjacent nodes and those nodes have identical reputation. Of course, by sorting I'd know which node of that particular author is the most cherished by the general public.

I'll modify the patch. Ordering by Reputation will only be possible if there's no constraint on the node type (i.e. showtype is unset) except if getId($user) == getId($USER), as with $showrep - someone might want to have a look at their own meditations, and see which got highest/lowest rep.

--shmem 

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}

In reply to Re^2: constrain User Search with the "showtype" param by shmem
in thread constrain User Search with the "showtype" param by shmem

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