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xongsmith Member  Posts: 1888 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.6
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 Modulous blesses my hopeful bottle in the ocean with:
indeed. But, to get back to the point. I think something has to be done. I am *blank* now. Anyone with any ranking at all is now a 10.0. Something needs to be done, as Catholic Scientist said in Message 178:
- xongsmith, 5.7d
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Modulous Member (Idle past 301 days)  Posts: 7789 From: Manchester, UK Joined: |
Each post is worth 1 1 cheer makes it worth 1.5 1 jeer makes it worth 0.8 Cheers and jeers cancel each other out. A score of 8 or more required for POTM nomination. Whichever nomination gets the most net cheers is POTM. This gives you an ever increasing number, if that's your thing. This system could work with just Cheers too. To add an interesting wrinkle, you could limit the number of ratings that can be cast per day based on your total score (so more experienced, or well regarded posters get more power).
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xongsmith Member Posts: 1888 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.6 |
okay. are these multipliers? e.g. i make a post. 1 pt. someone cheers, 1.5 pts. Someone jeers o.8 or 1.2 points. another cheer, 2 pts or 1.2 points or 2.2 points? WTF? - xongsmith, 5.7d
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Modulous Member (Idle past 301 days) Posts: 7789 From: Manchester, UK Joined: |
No the cheers/jeers cancel out. Basically, work out the net cheer/jeer amount and then apply the value. So when someone jeers in your example, it goes back to 1pt.
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ringo Member  Posts: 16851 From: frozen wasteland Joined: Member Rating: 3.3 |
As I see it (today - I didn't bother to go back to remind myself how I saw it yesterday) Percy needs to make the rating system generic - all things to all men, not just tailored to this forum. It would be nice if it was as sophisticated as some of the suggestions but in the end the vast majority of (other) people are just going to use it as a popularity contest. No matter how complicated it becomes, I don't think you can measure quality. Keep it simple: like or dislike, maybe a running total of likes and dislikes for all posts.
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Admin Director  Posts: 12614 From: EvC Forum Joined: Member Rating: 4.4 |
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herebedragons Member  Posts: 1513 From: Michigan Joined: Member Rating: 10.0 |
HBD Whoever calls me ignorant shares my own opinion. Sorrowfully and tacitly I recognize my ignorance, when I consider how much I lack of what my mind in its craving for knowledge is sighing for... I console myself with the consideration that this belongs to our common nature. - Francesco Petrarca "Nothing is easier than to persuade people who want to be persuaded and already believe." - another Petrarca gem. Ignorance is a most formidable opponent rivaled only by arrogance; but when the two join forces, one is all but invincible.
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Admin Director Posts: 12614 From: EvC Forum Joined: Member Rating: 4.4 |
rating = (total votes) / (total messages with one or more votes) This raw rating is then normalized with all other member ratings on a scale of 1 to 10. Members with less than 5 messages with votes receive no rating.
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xongsmith Member Posts: 1888 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.6
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?? Kindly, - xongsmith, 5.7d
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NoNukes Inactive Member
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My rating seems a lot more volatile under the current system. It seems like every time I cheer for a Son Goku message, and for some reason I cannot resist doing so, my own rating drops 3 points. Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846) I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass
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Tangle Member  Posts: 6954 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 5.1 |
It used to be the case that a newcomer to the site would know the creationists from the sane just by the score, now you have to do it by reading what they actually say - which seems fair. But I'm buggered if I know how Faith's score has moved from 1+ to 5.6 whilst everyone else is sinking from 8ish to 6ish. It's like everything is reverting to the mean. Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
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AZPaul3 Member  Posts: 4268 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 3.7 |
I'm gonna whine and complain just like everyone else. I been done needlessly dirty and I protest. My member rating is less than a perfect 10, which is where it should be ... and stay there! At one time I had a perfect rating (well deserved, of course) and my rating remained at 10, as well it should. But now my rating is not just not 10 but is wondering into the nether regions below 9 and changes hither and yon like I'm not consistently the best there could possibly be! Oh good god! Now it's a friggin 6?! This is outrageous and needs to change! Write your massive modules of convoluted code around your tortuous theorems to rate everyone else as you so wish, but I insist, nay, I demand that my rating be pegged at 10 ... for all time to come!
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ooh-child Member  Posts: 232 Joined: |
I would like to see these ratings go to eleven. One louder, y'know?
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ringo Member Posts: 16851 From: frozen wasteland Joined: Member Rating: 3.3 |
I remember the good old days when I could work my rating back up toward 10 by saying something clever.
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Thugpreacha Member  Posts: 12587 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
Does a higher rating make you feel more profound? (Or just funny?
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