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Sorting contributors by median rating. |
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Score
83%
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30 votes,
Feasibility
98%
Originality
95%
Humour
83% |
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The Problem:
It's hard to find the good ideas in this site.
The Social Invention:
This idea is in response to Michael Laub's idea, linked below.
Reward people who evaluate other ideas.. That idea proposes ranking users based on how active they are as comment posters and page clickers.
I think this would be a mistake. We already have too many ill-conceived comments, and actually understanding ideas can take valuable clicking time. We don't need to encourage more brain droppings.
As it is now, the contributor list is sorted by the number of submissions. This number is of very little help for a reader seeking something worthwhile. It's like counting money by counting pieces of currency, where each coin or paper note counts as one item: "I have 15 pieces of currency in my pocket." Not very helpful.
Instead, I propose a new "top submitters" list be sorted according to median ballot received on each contributor's ideas. I know, we'll probably have to settle for mean, but I can dream can't I? This score should definitely not be generated by simply averaging the score of each idea on the contributor's list, as though a two-vote 20% idea cancels out a hundred-vote 80% idea.
Granted, the ballots have dubious meaning and accuracy, but they're all we've got right now. If a reader can get some indication of the quality of a contributor, they can then more conveniently navigate to quality ideas, and easily finding good ideas is what this site should be all about.
We need better ways to find the good stuff.
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I try to keep my quality high, in the face of relentless mediocrity. I live in Berkeley, California, at a place called the Wormhole, and am a maker of things.
http://members.cruzio.com/~loqi/
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