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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4411 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.4
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A vote (cheer or jeer) could be about content, style, quality, position, entertainment value, etc., and there's no way to know. Maybe there should be a row of jeer and cheer buttons. One set each for content, quality, position, etc. and maybe you could only vote for one attribute per post. It probably would defeat the purpose of multiple choice if there was an "all of the above" button. Almost always I voted on content and sometimes I wished I could vote more than once for really good ones. Some votes were for position or quality. I have to say thank you for the work you have put in to this site. It functions better than any other forum that I have used and has some great features to pinpoint who and what you are responding to. No other forum does that well. I like this community and feel like I know some of the members well from reading their posts over the years. Most of all this has been a great way to learn about science that is outside my own field.What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy
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Pollux Member Posts: 303 Joined: |
Hi Tanypteryx (or may I call you hageni?)
While we are talking about them, do all dragonflies have that little area of solid colour on their wing tips?
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Admin Director Posts: 13017 From: EvC Forum Joined: Member Rating: 1.8 |
It looks like your voice has been heard. Merry Christmas!
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Admin Director Posts: 13017 From: EvC Forum Joined: Member Rating: 1.8 |
A hoverbox of info will appear if you hover over your member rating. If you can suggest how to make it more informative I'll update it.
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Admin Director Posts: 13017 From: EvC Forum Joined: Member Rating: 1.8 |
Tanypteryx writes: Maybe there should be a row of jeer and cheer buttons. One set each for content, quality, position, etc. and maybe you could only vote for one attribute per post. It probably would defeat the purpose of multiple choice if there was an "all of the above" button. I'm thinking along the same lines. It would have to be customizable by board admins.
I have to say thank you for the work you have put in to this site. It functions better than any other forum that I have used and has some great features to pinpoint who and what you are responding to. No other forum does that well. Thanks, I like the response tracking features too. Before writing this software I was participating at bulletin boards that discussed bulletin board software, and I suggested such features, but everyone "looked" at me like I had three heads. It seemed like an obvious feature to me, but not so much to other bulletin board developers.
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Tangle Member Posts: 9504 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 4.7
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"Member ratings are on a scale from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest). They are a measure of a member's ability to draw votes for their messages over the past 90 days."
It doesn't seem to work in a one to one way though. I vaguely remember that soon after I joined my rating was 10, but then it plummeted to something like 7.5 for no reason I could see. It then climbed back up to 9.9 and stays around there depending mostly whether Faith is in one of her moods or not. Can you describe how it works, just for interest.Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android
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nwr Member Posts: 6409 From: Geneva, Illinois Joined: Member Rating: 5.3
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It looks like your voice has been heard.
Thanks to whoever changed it back. And a Merry Christmas to everybody, including those who give me jeers.Fundamentalism - the anti-American, anti-Christian branch of American Christianity
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Jon Inactive Member |
It doesn't seem to work in a one to one way though. I vaguely remember that soon after I joined my rating was 10, but then it plummeted to something like 7.5 for no reason I could see. It then climbed back up to 9.9 and stays around there depending mostly whether Faith is in one of her moods or not. Can you describe how it works, just for interest. If it only factors in the last 90 days, then it makes sense that the rating can fluctuate without having received any recent cheers/jeersas past ratings slowly fall out of the calculation whether they are negative or positive they will positively or negatively (respectively) affect the 90-day rating. Merry Christmas.Love your enemies!
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Admin Director Posts: 13017 From: EvC Forum Joined: Member Rating: 1.8 |
In addition to what Jon said, your member rating is relative to other member's. The member with the most votes gets a 10, the member with the least votes gets a 1. If you have the most votes you'll get the 10, but if someone else then receives additional votes giving them more than you, then they'll get the 10 and your member rating will decline. It's on a sliding scale.
--Percy Edited by Admin, : Change author.
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Tangle Member Posts: 9504 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 4.7 |
I assume the jeers and the cheers cancel each other out equally?
Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android
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Admin Director Posts: 13017 From: EvC Forum Joined: Member Rating: 1.8 |
That's right, but it's an interesting thought that they shouldn't necessarily have to.
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Phat Member Posts: 18298 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
I remember one time when you gave me a negative rating for a post that I made that I saw no problem with---I was soo mad that I went and gave you a negative on every post I could find that you made! I guess I need to take these things less seriously and personally...but among EvC members, Theodoric consistently uses the negative button...on me certainly. Otherwise very few people see me as either very good or very bad.
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Tangle Member Posts: 9504 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 4.7 |
What was the reasoning behind someone's personal rating varying as a result of someone else's?
That seems more like a competition to beat others than encouragement to grow an individual reputation. I would have thought a mechanism that developed something like a personal handicap would be more appropriate? (Although it seems to work out ok.) What would happen if someone with a score of, say, 7, didn't post for 90 days? Would their score revert to 10 or stick at 7 - or change because of other's scores have changed?Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9142 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.3 |
Theodoric consistently uses the negative button. Because a lot of your posts are nothing but crap. They are words strung together to sound philosophical and intellectual but are nothing but bullshit and word salad. In lots of your posts one can read the self satisfaction you are getting in trying to sound like a deep religious philosopher, when in reality all it is, is mental masturbation. If you took time to actual post cogent points I would not jeer you so much. Instead you seem to post mostly personal mental meanderings, that in reality say nothing. If that is what you want to post why don't you pull a Faith and post on a personal blog.Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.
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Percy Member Posts: 22480 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.8
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Well, that's one view, and I can see why you feel that way, but some bring us messages that aren't always in the words.
--Percy
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