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I would also be interested in seeing a ranking in terms of articles read by the user. While h-index and karma are great to measure, well, measurable contributi
by djfm 10y ago
I would also be interested in seeing a ranking in terms of articles read by the user.
While h-index and karma are great to measure, well, measurable contribution to the community, it fails to capture the contribution to the community that consists in (and this is true of a lot of other if not of all "karma policies" too):
- sharing what one sees in this community, and spreading it through
other channels
- or even just using the knowledge gathered here
- or, in the best case, using the inspiration found in this community
to help build a better world
I for one read HN articles and comments about 2 hours a day every single day even now at 5am on a Sunday morning after a party. This made me a better programmer, dreamer, and probably a slightly better person too.
Yet I speak little and have only a little under
300 karma. I believe, though, that I contribute somehow more to the community than what my karma shows (e.g. by spreading the word about a cool and useful technology at work - say functional reactive programming for instance - and seeing it being adopted or experimented with).
I think attendance matters, too :)
EDIT: list formatting
EDIT2: added bit about FRP cuz, you know, redux
- signa11 10y ago> While h-index and karma are great to measure, well, measurable contribution to the community, it fails to capture the contribution to the community... i really don't know how any of the stuff that you have mentioned is empirically verifiable or in other words, as you have so rightly indicated, measurable. how would you rank things based on stuff that you cannot even measure ? e.g. if 'sharing what one sees in this community, and spreading it through other channels' is something that is looked at as a measure of contribution, how would you go about doing it ? i could probably think of couple of ways. none of which will not appear 'creepy' e.g. one very obvious approach might be that we start linking up things like facebook/reddit/g+ etc. accounts here and start tracking things ? thereby, generating over a period of time, metrics which measure node (that's you !) centrality etc...
- holri 10y agoWe have just discovered that rankings are useless. The world is not only what is measurable.
- ktRolster 10y agoThat reminds me of the weekly metric emails I get from Slack. I have no idea what to do with the information they give me.
- signa11 10y ago> We have just discovered that rankings are useless. The world is not only what is measurable. may you please elaborate ? thanks ! i don't really understand, sorry.
- signa11 10y ago> We have just discovered that rankings are useless. The world is not only what is measurable. may you please elaborate ? thanks ! i don't really understand, sorry.