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suggestion to reduce existing reputation for upcoming season
At this point, it seems that there are about 75 people who have maxed out their reputation dots. When one compares the list of those 75 people with their join dates, only about 10 of them have joined since the reputation system started. This brings up the question as to what the purpose of the reputation system is.
If the reputation system is designed to reward older members, it is doing exactly what it was designed for. There is an inherent bias against new members that will only get worse as the years go on and people build up more reputation and more reputation altering power. I wouldn't doubt in 2 or 3 more years that JVN (assuming he keeps posting) will have a reputation exceeding 100,000 and would be able to give 1000 reputation points to other people. I think that it's time to reduce the existing reputation (and probably do it once a year). One way to do that would be to divide everyone's reputation by a constant, say 5 or 10. I kind of like the idea of indexing this constant to the amount of reputation of the highest member (for example divide everyone this year by a constant that would leave JVN with 1000 reputation points). This would preserve the existing reputation strata, while allowing new members to move up more easily. If this were done each year, someone who amassed a lot of reputation but stopped posting would within a few years see themself with the same reputation as a new poster. Another idea would be to set an amount of reputation, and set everyone above that level to that level once a year. Somewhere between 500 and 1000 seems good to me. This would allow the highly regarded poster who stops posting to maintain a certain amount of reputation while still allowing newer members the ability to get recognized. What do people think? |
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Re: suggestion to reduce existing reputation for upcoming season
I take the reputation system about as seriously as I do a "What team will win the championship?" thread on the first week of the build season. It's all a popularity contest and I can't see it intended for anything else.
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When I was running the Fantasy FIRST draft before the championships and everybody was drunk with excitment over the whole idea and kept showiering me with oodles of reputation just because I put two and two together and came up with a game anyone else could have easily came up with. There is little to take seriously about the whole thing nor should there be. |
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Re: suggestion to reduce existing reputation for upcoming season
I sure do miss the old days when you knew who knew their stuff on CD just by reading posts. I speak my mind, and don't worry about reputation. I think it is more important to stand up for your beliefs and say what you think than to be intimitated by someone who has more "green dots" than you do. They are, after all, just dots.
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Re: suggestion to reduce existing reputation for upcoming season
I have to kind of agree with Ed here, and at the same time, I also think the rep system could just be left alone. While it does seem a bit of a popularity contest, looking at the people with the highest rep, they also have the most experience relevant to helping people on CD FIRST and presenting useful postings. You know that people with high reps can generally give you the advice you need, while people newer to CD are more in the "unknown" category. If new people are in fact intimidated by the rep system, then perhaps we need to explain it better off of the main section. I dont know that I even know many of the details of it (for instance, is there a max limit?). So maybe its time we explain it better before we try changing it.
I will be honest, I found it fairly useful, coming into CD just this year myself, and not knowing who to be able to ask for help. I've been heavily involved in FIRST since 96, but I had never really been on CD before, so it was fairly useful to figure out who had "good reps" in the community, while at the same time noting that it can at times be similar to winning prom king/queen. Just my thoughts ![]() |
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Re: suggestion to reduce existing reputation for upcoming season
I feel it is somewhat a good idea to do something with the reputation system. A member of a rookie team contacted me for some help regarding their robot design because saw I had a high reputation and thought I'd be a good resource. I was to a certain extent, but then I directed him to a better suited person for his question. So all in all, I think the reputation system does count. Some people do look at the reputation system and judge a person. And if Brandon feels that there are people with high reputation who do not deserve to be, then maybe we can do something about it. And I agree to Koko Ed too, some of my reputation points are just useless. They've come from the most stupid things ever. And I personally feel that some members with high reputation just do not deserve to be there, they're there just because of friends or just talking sweet and not meaning anything.
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I just think people read too much into the rep. It's like looking good. What you see is what you get. You want more? Search thier previous posts and see what makes them tick. The proof is in the pudding and you'll find out if they're the real deal or full of it pretty quick. |
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Re: suggestion to reduce existing reputation for upcoming season
(Full disclosure: I have eleven dots.)
I see the rep system as a non-issue. If folks want to rep someone for something silly, that is their call under the system. If there is one thing I would love to see change about the rep system, it would be to create some sort of half-strength option, for when I don't feel like giving someone a full-on red dot. There are several times that I've wanted to give someone a negative rep, but decided against it because I'd be screwing them up far beyond what it was worth. And sometimes neutral just doesn't say it. ...but like I said, I'm fine with it right now. <edit>Somewhere in the FAQs (too tired to look it up right now) there's a mention that if you feel a rep is unwarranted, PM Brandon. He can take those things out.</edit> |
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Re: suggestion to reduce existing reputation for upcoming season
I've spoken many times about how we shouldn't be too serious about the reputation system, but since the decision was to keep it in this forum, I think there are ways to improve it. Otherwise we might as well take it off if it does this forum nothing. There is no reason we shouldn't make it better just because we don't take it seriously.
As mentioned above, the problem with the current reputation points system is that new members will never get enough points to be any where closed to the current reputation leaders. In other words, the current system isn't very good at demonstrating the reputation ranking of the current season (whatever that ranking might mean to people). The only benefit right now is showing the top ranked people since the beginning of time, and that has its ups and downs. The suggestion is to reduce the current ranking so new members have a chance to catch up, and there are ups and downs for that, the biggest concern being that older members who used to contribute a lot (and received big reputation points because of that) will drop away from the ranking because they might be temporary unavailable to participate in the forum in the current season. In other words new members will not know to look for these members' posts because they never heard of them before and they are no longer on the top of the list. Here is my suggestion: We restart the reputation count, but we don't erase the old rep points. Have archive pages of reputation points for each individual season and the overall count. This way we have an accurate rep point of recent participation, as well as the overall ranking since the beginning of this forum. We might not like the system very much, but it was likable enough to stay around, so we might as well make it better. |
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Re: suggestion to reduce existing reputation for upcoming season
this has already been discussed before....nothing has come of it before.....they are just dots we aren't electing anyone with them don't worry about it....
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...4&page=1&pp=15 |
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I agree. I used to worry about my points when I first started. I found that as I made posts that people thought were good I would get points. If they didn't like them then they took them away. I still speak my mind but I try to be careful on how I say things. That is not bad. As time goes on every one will slowly get up to 11 dots if they contribute. If there was a wish list I would say no rep for Chit Chat and allow anyone to see who gave rep to you and why. I am NOT trying to give Brandon more work. He does a great job and he really doesn't need more hassles (nice kiss up eh). |
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Re: suggestion to reduce existing reputation for upcoming season
I personally think its a good idea (if we dont put much pressure on Brandon). Brandon has an outside life too other than taking care of us on this forum. and as far as the high reputation goes, we all know pretty well who really helps us on the forum and who doesnt. i think reputation was a good idea. but if it takes a lot of work just to change it, then i wouldnt bother asking brandon to add this on his "To do list".
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