Has anyone ever looked into, what I'll call for the time being, a "power" ranking for each member. I hate for people to use the post count to determine who's a valuable/high contributing member.
Let's say John has 50 posts, but he doesn't really contribute much for each post, and he hasn't started any topics. Suppose he mainly makes replies such as "Good points in that post" and the like. If I added all the individual characters he's posted it comes to 2500.
Then we have Mary who has 20 posts, but they are really good and consist of several paragraphs each, and she's started 5 topics that generated, respectively, 10, 15, 20, 10, and 5 responses from other members. Lets say her character count was 10,000.
Mary provides much more content than John, generatates more traffic (topic replies) but has fewer posts. How to show this?
So a power ranking might be characters posted * total topics started (if greater than zero) * total replies to topics started (if greater than zero).
So if you take John, you have 2500 characters and no topics started and (therefore) no replies to your topics, the total is: 50 * N/A * N/A = 50.
Take Mary - If you have 10,000 char. and 5 topics started and 10+15+20+10+5 replies to each topic, the total is: 10,000 * 5 topic starts * 60 replies from other members = 3,000,000.
Now to avoid large numbers you scale them by, say, 1000.
So the power rankings would be -
John: 0.05
Mary: 3000
That's just a brainstorm I had, the values chosen for the calculations could probably be improved. Is that an idea (or something like it) worth consideration as a built-in feature?
Let's say John has 50 posts, but he doesn't really contribute much for each post, and he hasn't started any topics. Suppose he mainly makes replies such as "Good points in that post" and the like. If I added all the individual characters he's posted it comes to 2500.
Then we have Mary who has 20 posts, but they are really good and consist of several paragraphs each, and she's started 5 topics that generated, respectively, 10, 15, 20, 10, and 5 responses from other members. Lets say her character count was 10,000.
Mary provides much more content than John, generatates more traffic (topic replies) but has fewer posts. How to show this?
So a power ranking might be characters posted * total topics started (if greater than zero) * total replies to topics started (if greater than zero).
So if you take John, you have 2500 characters and no topics started and (therefore) no replies to your topics, the total is: 50 * N/A * N/A = 50.
Take Mary - If you have 10,000 char. and 5 topics started and 10+15+20+10+5 replies to each topic, the total is: 10,000 * 5 topic starts * 60 replies from other members = 3,000,000.
Now to avoid large numbers you scale them by, say, 1000.
So the power rankings would be -
John: 0.05
Mary: 3000
That's just a brainstorm I had, the values chosen for the calculations could probably be improved. Is that an idea (or something like it) worth consideration as a built-in feature?