This week: Top 100 and Top 5 lists

Pretty sad eh? I'm actually getting excited over this stuff. I'm such a dork. LOL.

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I don't mean to be a jerk, but I'd just like to represent the other end of the spectrum. This will promote "quantity" over "quality". I believe that this was an issue discussed earlier. I'd also like to mention that in my opinion, this is more of a novelty than a promotional move.

Perhaps a fair trial is the best method. I am interested to see how many people catch on to the rating method and the abuse patterns that may arise because of it; hopefully there will be none.

The "best of" list will be a lot of fun in my book. I am anxiously awaiting the results. :)

Chris

As with anything in life, people will go to extremes to abuse the system.

I was actually discussing screwing with the new ranking meter for fun before the View All Open Questions link was available. Then I was given the backdoor link and the fun was dead.

I look forward to seeing what you guys have come up with, at least you are working proactively to improve and make changes now.

I still think the time frames are a tad short, even taking into account that you don't want to discourage people from going for the top. When you GET to the top, you have to do it all again next month or you will lose 'ranking', where's the motivation in that?

What about people who are actually the best contributors in all areas (certainly not suggesting myself here) that simply don't have as much time as they used to, even though they post less fresuently, they also may post some of the best help but they will not be rated fairly because some Yahoo.com has been on TR 24/7 offering nothing but garbage all over the site?

I think people should be encouraged to support TR and the community for at least 6 months or a year before they have the ability to knock out the top performers.

Then the community gets filled with genuine people who actually want to build a great resource and help others, as it sits now it is seems to be simply a posting game.

Will promote those who have inflated egos to go crazy to get into the top 100 and the higher up the better but over all I think it would be a good idea as there are enough real Peers here to contribute and most will quickly pick up on those who are all for show.

Col

Who else would, right? :D

I have a MAJOR problem with the top 100 list. There are MANY people who do not have an active (clickable) alias in order to view their profile. Now I KNOW some of these uys REALLY deserve to be where they are but et the alias active or you can't play.

I don't care if they want to acept peer mail, although it SHOULD be expected of top rated participants, but at least have it so you can click anyone's name and at least see their profile.

Though many would say I am, you guys have been going at it like rabbits on viagra, based on the 30 day scale, it should show you in the top.

My point isn't position but the LACK of TOP 100 members that do not offer contact info or even a profile link. If the CONTACT button is what decides whether your alias is a LINK or not, it needs to be changed. I don't care if people don't want contact outside of the forums, but you should be able to view the profile by clicking their alias.

As for you guys, well yes the 30 day scale is working for you, but people like Maxwell have been here longer than me, have worked countless hours helping people and aquired immense amounts of points. He is shown as joining AFTER me and is ranked evenly with me.

Sure it works for encouraging new users but I think it will kill off former die-hard TR peers.

No I am not suggesting Max is gonna leave at all, I simply used him as an example of many.

What is feasibility of a separate list of Top XX all time point leaders?

Doing so would help alleviate the "what have you done for us lately" of 30 day rolling scores that seem too close to current corporate culture.

Dalton

For the amount of "quality" feedback that you leave, you should be in the top three.

For back and forth communication within a thread, you should be in the top three.

Your posts are usually twice the size of mine, with real world examples and stories that are related to the topic. I noticed this initially in the "What role do tapes play" thread a while back when I began participating in discussions. It went from data backup, to power backup, to horror stories, and then to patient data. Phew. How many people could cover that many topics in so few posts? ...and with positive conversation to boot!

I was wondering where you went, and then I was drafted into TRI to find you kicking around in here.

Chris

Some silly person put my name forward but in all honestly lately I've been very busy and just have not had the time to relax on TR.

I was actually thinking about the last few weeks as I've only had time to check my personal and business e-mails at best once a day and sometimes even less. Things have just been so busy that I haven't had the time and even though people like Max will tell you I do not sleep I do at least try to get a few hours per day.

Col

Before we get a full-scale riot going on, let me just say that the meter and the Top 100 are just one of many features we are planning that will recognize our members.

We most definitely are going to have ways of recognizing members in a more qualitative way. We are also going to have ways to recognize the long-time members.

The meter was just the first thing we implemented and the Top 100 listing is just a way to display the results of the meter. It is definitely not the only way we're going to recognize our members. It just happened to be the first one we launched.

And we will also be adding more variables to the meter algorithm so that more types of interaction are counted.

Thanks for everyone's feedback so far, though.

Oz,
I totally agree with you. I think there will be much more interaction between our members once you can learn more about someone from their profile page.

Plus, you'll have a much better sense of who you are interacting with.

sm

I agree. I often check out a member's other Q&A and Discussion contributions. This ability is hampered by the fact that - without a proper profile, the link is not present.

If you want to have a good laugh, look up apotheon's discussions, and then look for a staircase pattern with his name involved. It is most often an argument with another member who is feeding us their input with an ignorant point of view. In any case, it is good for a laugh when you are bored. :p

Chris

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And I agree with all of the comments posted thus far -- even the ones that didn't agree with each other (huh?).

When you filled out your Peer Listing did you use your real name?

If so now well all see it instead of the few that you communicate with.

I can just see it now OZ & Maxwell rushing in to change their Member listings. Well it should be interesting anyway.

Cheers Col :D

Before we were allowed basic HTML tagging, the ponly way to emphasise something was to capitalize it. When you read a post, you had no idea how the persona tone actually was and it was too easy to misinterpret something and take it offensively. Now we can [b]bold[/b][i]italicize[/i] and [u]underline[/u] comments so as not to appear to be SHOUTING ALL THE TIME!!!

One that always kills me though is when someone gets offended by a post and comments on the TONE someone is using. What kind of cool computers do these people have? Is text recognition really that good now?

That their text to speech engines are working.

I can not help but wonder just what the voices sound like though. Maybe they can program their speech engines so that when a particular person replies they get different voices coming out of the speakers. Like Max and OZ sounding like a rabid Adolf and some one else sounding like a sex starved female or whatever they desire.

Col

[i]sniff... sniff... gulp... sniff...[/i]

...just don't forget where you are when you are in the open forums.

:)

Chris