He he ... you're going to have to do something drastic now. Look at all those likes ....
Well it's his post count I need to worry about but yes, me and Mike have already been ribbing him about that
Code:+-----------------+---------------+------------+-----------------+ | username | message_count | like_count | like_post_ratio | +-----------------+---------------+------------+-----------------+ | Grover | 1428 | 837 | 0.5861 | +-----------------+---------------+------------+-----------------+
This would be a cool tab on the new Members page.Here's the [...] active posters with their like/post ratio.
I think there may be a small amount of people who do this, but for the most part I believe people like posts because they like the content, find it funny, helpful, educational etc. For myself, I don't take into account who has posted the content that I'm liking, so I'll happily like a post by someone who I would usually find irritating if I believe the post deserves it.Promoting like/message ratios seems a bit too narcissistic. You would think that it encourages quality over quantity but that's not true. What it really does is encourage self-promotion. The best way to get likes is to attract attention to yourself. It is nothing necessarily to do with quality but rather attention-grabbing attributes like popularity and controversy. Metrics are fine but you have to be careful when making them a primary focus because they can become ends in themselves.
If I wanted to increase my ratio on this forum then I would stop answering some support threads since they yield very few likes relative to political topics for example.
Promoting like/message ratios seems a bit too narcissistic. You would think that it encourages quality over quantity but that's not true. What it really does is encourage self-promotion. The best way to get likes is to attract attention to yourself. It is nothing necessarily to do with quality but rather attention-grabbing attributes like popularity and controversy. Metrics are fine but you have to be careful when making them a primary focus because they can become ends in themselves.
If I wanted to increase my ratio on this forum then I would stop answering some support threads since they yield very few likes relative to political topics for example.
That surprises me ... I'd have thought that giving the quality support that you do (including diving onto people's servers to fix the non-XF stuff) would generate many more likes than your general posts. Strange.
It's relative. I get about 0 to 2 likes for a support post because it mostly concerns just one person. Whereas in threads like this I get more likes because there are more users participating. My previous post has 3 likes now which is more than I get for a support post. The vast majority of my posts are in response to support queries and my ratio is 0.68, so there you go. It's not a problem for me, just a demonstration of how popularity trumps other considerations when you promote a metric like "like/message" ratio.
This makes me think of SEO and page rank which is very much a popularity contest.
This likes system is nothing but a tool to engage activity, that's about it.
No more narcissistic than "promoting" people's birthdays. Kier posted the stats in the first place. I just remembered the post when I saw the new members page.Promoting like/message ratios seems a bit too narcissistic.
For what it's worth, pagerank - the Google thing - doesn't play in to search result ranking, even at Google. And SEO is something site owners do, so I'm not sure I understand how that relates to "popularity."This makes me think of SEO and page rank which is very much a popularity contest.
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