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What I've wanted to try but I have never had the opportunity to was having karma be accumulated on a per-topic basis. I think any time you've got a wide set of
by JeffJenkins 17y ago
What I've wanted to try but I have never had the opportunity to was having karma be accumulated on a per-topic basis. I think any time you've got a wide set of topics this is necessary to avoid the issues of people being treated as credible outside of their domain of expertise, and it could help mitigate the issue on Stack Overflow where people who answer lots of easy questions can get much more karma than those who answer a few much harder ones.
- yannis 17y agoJeff Thanks! What you saying is very true of stack-overflow and although I visit occasionally their whole karma formula does not appeal for the reason you mentioned. I was thinking in similar lines and have introduced the groups concept for example when you belong to the 'lisp circle' you will be able to earn additional points when you answer or solve lisp problems. My concern is not to let the users focus too narrowly, I was thinking that joining groups should be limited i.e, when you accumulate 100 points you can join a group and as you earn open up more groups... To link the whole thing in a sort of 'PageRank' algorithm to stop people from gaming the system is what is puzzling me.
- barmstrong 17y agoThis is a good idea. It's be cool to see a user was an "expert in...X, Y, Z" or something like that. You'd need real critical mass for something like that. Most new sites are happy just to get users with any reputation, much less divide it amongst topics. Maybe it would be a good feature to add after a site matures.