in reply to PerlMonks XP Value

I wonder why the initial developers of this voting system didn't separate votes you get from other users voting for your posts, and your own points you get while voting for other posts. It seems to me that these two numbers are very different in their nature. The former is the quality of the material you write (and which could be, eventually, considered by third parties interested in one's abilities) while the latter means that you can recognize good post, but it doesn't prove your ability to write similar (or better) one.

So, if anybody in the future seriously considers to change the XP or the voting system, I think this is the first direction to be examined.

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Re^2: PerlMonks XP Value
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Oct 09, 2006 at 17:13 UTC

    Perhaps the initial developers of this voting system have never believed that there was a strong correlation between XP and the quality of any given post.

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      Whether the correlation exists or not I still think that these two numbers should/could be separated.
      Then, those interested in "how good the monk is in Perl" will care about the votes given to monk, and those interested in overall XP will see these votes and how the monk participates in voting other peoples posts.

      Personally, I think that nothing should change and the present system is good to me, but it still confuses too many people.

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        Do you have a solution for people voting up posts that contain demonstrably incorrect information? In the past month, I've replied to a good half-dozen posts, saying "That's not true!" In most cases, the parent posts have greater scores than my replies.

        Fix that, retroactively, and you might have something that works to evaluate the quality of any given post.

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