Reputation Dots Enhancements

[Joel J]

Originally Posted by Jane

If you give me a logarithmic dot will you please issue a lesson with it so that I understand that which I have obtained?


sadly - I am not kidding about the lesson.

You have a certain amount of points.. lets say 12000. The amount of dots you get for that number would be (log10 12000)

10^x = 12000. x = the number of dots you get, which is 4 (rounded).

I think google does something similar with its PageRank number, to assign a number to a site (1-10).

1000 - 10000 points gets the same number of dots, is one problem I see, so maybe the log score would have to be scaled a little bit to make use of the remainder that normally gets thrown away.

Another thing that could be done is to get the mean and standard deviation of the rep points, and then based on the number of standard deviations you are away from the mean, you get a certain amount of dots. Those who have a negative some of rep points would have to have a seperate process to assign red dots, and their score would have to be excluded from determining the average rep point total.

Are you saying this is too complicated? Of course I'd have to agree, and doing any of this might be harder than just installing that plug-in Brandon is talking about.. but I dunno, I kinda liked thinking about possible enhancements to rep dots.