Proposal: KudoZ Won/Total Answers Percentage

On 2003-03-29 20:41, two2tango wrote:

I would keep the KudoZ points system. They are fun, and the fun brings people who can provide useful help.





My proposal was simple: the more statistical data shown the better.



My proposal was simple: show us the percentage of won/total answers for each answerer in each category.



What will it show?



A person has many answers and a few kudoZ points in a category (many total, low ratio): he or she is not a specialist in the field, he or she got his points occasionally due to the long term he or she\'s on kudoZ and probably due to askers\' mistakes.



A person has many answers and many points in the field (many total, good ratio) -- he or she is a pretty good in that field.



A person has few answers and many points in the field (high ratio) -- he or she is an obviously good pro in the field, though not really active as an answerer.



A person has many answers and few points in the field -- (low ratio) he or she is probably _not_ very good in the field.





That is what I have proposed.



Reliability ratio based on agrees/disagrees, which is described in FAQ, is not implemented yet, so direct Won/Total ratio, however imperfect, may be a provisional solution.



I guess a perfect system must take into account:



- total kudoZ pts;

- reliability ratios;

- responsibility for \"bad\" answers (a lot of disagrees);

- peers\' responsibility for their agrees/disagrees. For a while nothing (except moral obligations) prevents pros from massive disagrees; moreover in many cases agrees/disagrees are only a mean to earn browniez easily.



Resetting kudoZ points each year seems not right to me. The kudoZ total shows how many times the person was useful to an asker, so it\'s just and right to keep the total points ranking.

[ This Message was edited by: Kirill on 2003-03-30 07:15] ▲ Collapse