comment on

Browsing the old discussion, you summarized one of the positions. Another is that what good is it as a reputation if it cannot factor into people's judgement of a node?

A position that I feel which apparently has not factored into this discussion is that every voting system has its anomolies. The current one favours short posts that are immediately understandable to everyone. It is appropriate if you want a popularity read, and not an indication of quality.

If your goal is to be able to identify who is liked and reward the poster, then the current choice makes sense.

If your goal is to develop information from which later on you can index into useful site documentation, then it doesn't.

Before you can point it out, I don't have the history with this site. I don't know what the voting system here is meant to address. OTOH I have been used as a sounding board for some of the ideas on how to use a voting system for the next incarnation of kuro5hin (pronounced corrosion) to help it deal with the troll problems that shut them down last time...

In reply to RE (tilly) 2: Reputation Viewing Option? by tilly
in thread Reputation Viewing Option? by PipTigger

Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big> <blockquote> <br /> <dd> <dl> <dt> <em> <font> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <hr /> <i> <li> <nbsp> <ol> <p> <small> <strike> <strong> <sub> <sup> <table> <td> <th> <tr> <tt> <u> <ul>
Snippets of code should be wrapped in <code> tags not <pre> tags. In fact, <pre> tags should generally be avoided. If they must be used, extreme care should be taken to ensure that their contents do not have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor intervention).
Want more info? How to link or How to display code and escape characters are good places to start.


laziness, impatience, and hubris
	PerlMonks