Am Dienstag, 14. Februar 2006 07:04 schrieb houghi: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 11:20:57PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > As I've mentioned in my first posting I would like to have some kind of > > report that wiill help novice users/subscribers to find their way. > > Information about the most active writers is one of this, a rating might > > also be helpfull. Plus a lot of other things which may be discussed. > > > > And having a statistik like David offered was helpfull on suse-linux de > > and I would say having something like this for opensuse would be helpfull > > too. > > Why would it be of importance to people to see who are the people who post > the most? Also: on what rules are you going to rate people? Look at /. > where posting that should have been `+5 Insightfull` become `-1 troll`. > > I rather have people make up their own minds of who they think is usefull > to them. If you want to have stats, fine. Run a program at home and do > with it as you please. > > houghi
I totally agree. Most active writers is not a good metric, it is good for ones ego to see ones name at the top of the list, but it doesn't really help anybody else. And quite often the best replies to read aren't those that come from the most frequent poster who flash off a response to nearly every post in every thread, but those that post a considered answer on specific topics where they know enough to make a useful contribution. Somebody who has posted 10 good, considered answers in a month is probably a better contributor than somebody who has dashed off 1000 emails with no serious content, acerbic comments or plain rudeness. Saying that, some people are genuinely helpful and post a lot whether there are post counters or not, but others will just increase their output, whilst lowering their quality, to get a higher ranking. I have seen it on web forums and newsgroups which have post counters, many people start spamming the group just to get their post count up so they will head the lists. Start giving titles to the top posters (>200 emails in a week l33t, >300 email 3l33t etc.) and just see the deluge the mailing list drowns under :-( If it could give an indication on the quality of the responses, and how useful they are in the context of the preceding thread, it would be useful. A rating system of some kind based on feedback might be useful, but that is needlessly complex and involves people rating each other, which leads to the usual problems of if everything is fine, nobody comments, if they have a bad reaction, they go and bad mouth someone and personality conflicts... It is interesting as an excercise, to see who posts a lot, but to put any worth on the number of posts, without taking into account the quality and usefulness is pointless. Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
