I like the changes CC.
I think that you should keep them in for all new updates.
Your updates do make for some interesting number chunching exercises.
Some where along the line I think you were looking for ways to track and acknowledge contributions. The following summarizes some of the ideas that have crossed my mind.
1) Total # of stars (avg rating X number of ratings
2) Stars per contribution.
3) Revise star averaging algorithm such that no rating counts as a "zero star" rating. (this would hurt me bad, but would definatly make a one star rating a plus and not a negative.)
4) Fraction of Dennis (contributors total / Dennis total)
5) Make number of contributions a 12 bit field and than add an "over-flow" counter for Dennis.
6) Summarize Blue bars vs Gold bars. This could foster good competition between the "users of a thing" and the "makers of a thing" (see Plato's Republic on this topic). This could be two parts, number of answers, and number of stars for each "Team" (Hmmm, Gold Team vs Blue Team).
7) Number of stars collected. I do not know if you have the functionality in place to do this. The I dea is this. If I see a question that I do not know the answer to, or is of interest, I will assign a star rating based how interesting or how hard it appears to be. Any contributor that answers that Q would pick up those stars as a reward for taking on the challenge.
How do the rest of you feel about these ideas?
Ben
