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So yet another feature: the ability to search the language codex currently in the system. (No, that SkinSelector - SkinSelector is not a bug. It's the SkinSelector plugin, showing the SkinSelector language file.)

I'm not entirely happy with the layout but that's pure aesthetics, the actual guts works ;)

:whip: ?

It's not entertaining, it's kind of sad really.Karma's abusable because it's for the *person* not for the *post* so it's inherently fecked anyway. The only way it works is if it's per-post, but even then it still needs careful watching.Nah. We'd just want some other metric to judge on. Numbers, for their ills, are easily digestible - and a member with an obscenely high post count is usually not likely to be a troll or otherwise a pain because if they were, they'd have been dealt with and summarily ejected.

It's the middle ground, the 0-5k post ground to watch out for, by the time they're past that, they're almost certainly in it for the long haul.

That's the point, though, you're assigning a metric that doesn't necessarily hold up either.

Let's take something akin to a real world example: sm.org. Nao started the Aeva thread, it has something like 6000 replies to it which if I remember rightly is actually more than his entire post count there.

Then you have me, I didn't make that many threads (and it's screwed up because some of them aren't properly attributed to me, and I won't even get into the debacle of mod threads that are no longer attributed to me)... but I have 9x the post count, and of the topics I made, I suspect I probably merited a similar amount of replies *in total* to them. Hard to say but let's take it as a reasonable hypothesis. I don't know how many topics I started but including the private ones in the mod reviews board, let's say 100 threads in total. Vs the... 10? threads Nao made.

By that reckoning, my contributions to sm.org are 51k * 6k * 100 vs Nao's 6k * 6k * 10 = 30.6bn vs 360m - several orders of magnitude even with a linear scaling factor - and that's without distorting it based on size (since I wrote some pretty large posts too)

And that's being conservative in some areas. I like the idea in principle but the practice just doesn't quite work out. There are just too many variables to bring into a common field of statistical reference and too many ways to screw up such an algorithm.

It's essentially generating an assumed reputation out of computable metrics - and slightly naive ones.

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Revision: 2151
Author: arantor
Date: 05 June 2013 01:01:05
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! The notifier file I forgot to commit just now. (Move.php)
! The current contributors list. It's not 100% accurate at this point in time since we haven't updated getID3 to the MPL licenced version yet but we will be doing so shortly.
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Added : /trunk/Sources/notifiers/Move.php
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1.	Even the ASCII art in this file has attribution. Credit where credit is due.

It's basically called reputation for which mods already exist in SMF to do pretty much all this.

I'm reluctant to put them in the core however because it's a fairly niche thing and prone to abuse.