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For github, there's no point in scores. For HN, I'd rather it be hidden, something people can peek at if they really want to. For StackOverflow - a simple ran
by jariel 6y ago
For github, there's no point in scores.
For HN, I'd rather it be hidden, something people can peek at if they really want to.
For StackOverflow - a simple rank system would be nice, because you really want to know the cred of someone piping in. You get points (rouhgly hidden) and then a public badge for rank. Very simple, like 4 or 5 ranks max, that's it. I use StackOverflow but have never bothered to investigate the point system deeply I find it confusing and not hugely relevant and I am not alone.
For Twitter/Instagram/TikTok - there actually is something to likes. Perhaps they could flag content as being 'big' 'super big' and 'viral' or something so that people don't worry fret about numbers but at the same time we have some instinct as to how popular something is, even if we concede that it's a very crude measure of anything.
- teh_klev 6y ago> For StackOverflow - a simple rank system would be nice There is one which is based on your rank as a user against every other user. The problem is that SO has 15+ million users, anyone who's able to gain a reputation of more than a few thousand ends up in the top 0.1% or so because there's such a long tail of low/no-rep users. They should probably work on fixing this because it's a bit artificial. I'm one of 976 users out of these 15M+ that has a rep of over 100k (112k), I don't contribute much now, but still accrue points for upvotes on past answers (rightly or wrongly). Though there is a daily rep cap to prevent this getting out of control, but John Skeet :/, that said I did put a lot of work into these answers at the time, so why not keep accruing points, even if my participation has waned. I dunno, I don't really care much now.