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That's an interesting stance. If a user "respected" enough to get into the top 100 is saying things that you don't want to read, there are only two real possib
by run4yourlives 17y ago
That's an interesting stance.
If a user "respected" enough to get into the top 100 is saying things that you don't want to read, there are only two real possibilities:
1. The community (or a large sub-section)is full of idiots.
2. You are the "idiot". (quotes for a reason - I'm not calling you an idiot.)
2. Can be clarified as: perhaps this is a message you need to hear/are not understanding. I always read these comments extra, in the view of bettering myself.
I find it interesting that your response is to ignore them. Why?
- ivankirigin 17y agoTrolls should be ignored. Generally, people who consistently spew inflammatory and poorly reasoned garbage rarely yield edifying conversation. I'd rather not waste my time.
- run4yourlives 17y agoBy that definition though, those people wouldn't be in the top 100 would they? Regardless, don't you as a member of the community have the responsibility to down-mod trolls? By simply ignoring them, you don't alter the S to N ratio any...
- ivankirigin 17y agoStupid people that post a lot will get in the top 100. That's exactly who I'm talking about. They aren't explicitly trolls, just de facto.
- pg 17y agoI wonder if the leaderboard should be ranked by karma x average comment score.
- riffer 17y agoThat makes sense; put differently it would be roughly karma^2/comments^1 And right now the settings are karma^1/comments^0 To generalize, one way or the other you have karma^x/comments^y which looks strikingly similar to points^x/time^y Why not tinker with different variations until you get a couple of (probably non-integer) exponents that generate a leaderboard you think best represents the ideal character of the site, the same way you tinker with time gravity to alter the frontpage and comment pages?
- ivankirigin 17y agoThat would heavily weight against simple comments, which might be a good thing. It might be better to hurt the leaders based on the ratio of <=0 comments.
- staunch 17y agoI don't think it's a bad idea to have more than one table on the leaderboard. Having one "overall" table is nice, but having a bunch more stats would be fun.
- pg 17y agoOk, the leaders page now shows both total karma and the average for recent comments.
- run4yourlives 17y agoIt would be cool if you could choose the column to use for ordering. Rather enlightening though... I found myself instantly hitting the comment threads of users with recent comment averages > 10.