Forum Rank Change Proposal

[Ben]

Hmmm...

It seems the tags are not being appreciated for what they can offer.

Here is the tag cloud for "LabVIEW_Performance".

Tags make the fourm more powerful.

An "Accepted Soultion" is helpful in identifying which reply to a thread is most helpful but tags help us find the right thread in the first place.

For those that may have missed it, I wrote a utility to aid in the development of tags and lets you build your own "tree of LV knowledge" that can be found here.

Ben

[muks]

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An "Accepted Soultion" is helpful in identifying which reply to a thread is most helpful but tags help us find the right thread in the first place

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I do accept that. But do you feel equating them is ok?

[Ben]

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muks wrote:

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An "Accepted Soultion" is helpful in identifying which reply to a thread is most helpful but tags help us find the right thread in the first place

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I do accept that. But do you feel equating them is ok?

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Good question!

I am not sure how I feel about that. My first instinct says that the Tags will serve the community far beyond my passing while any "Acepted Solutions" will only become a foot-note in the history of the LV community. On the other hand, "Accepted Solutions" have to be earned. It almost seems like a question sililar to "Is the display case for the "Distinguished alumni" the same size as the display case for the list of finacial supporters?" So one is recognition for action quietly taken behind the scenes while the other features participant who finf themselves in the spot light.

The good news is I DON'T have to make the decision until Laura start the Poll. Anyone want to shed some light on another way of looking at this Q?

As always, I'll live with what the community decides.

Take care,

Ben

[muks]

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Good question!

I am not sure how I feel about that. My first instinct says that the Tags will serve the community far beyond my passing while any "Acepted Solutions" will only become a foot-note in the history of the LV community. On the other hand, "Accepted Solutions" have to be earned. It almost seems like a question sililar to "Is the display case for the "Distinguished alumni" the same size as the display case for the list of finacial supporters?" So one is recognition for action quietly taken behind the scenes while the other features participant who finf themselves in the spot light.

The good news is I DON'T have to make the decision until Laura start the Poll. Anyone want to shed some light on another way of looking at this Q?

As always, I'll live with what the community decides.

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I just want to give a few suggestion. And as ben said Staying with what the community prefers in the end is just grt. I just feel  equating a few things doesnt sound ok.

1. Posting a question cant be equal to creating a document or an example

2. Tag creation and solutions provided (Ben I understand both are good for the forum but.......)

 3. Laura has done a wonderful job in classifying things. My suggestion is why dont we give a uniqueness to users. Let the classification be as it is. But depending upon the contribution and intrest of the user we can uniquely classify the user and name him. 

4. knight of ni seems to be just grt but some kind of addons when he has contributed 20,000 ,25000 would just be intresting.isnt it? (We will be really intrested to know what is going to happen to dennis and altenbach when they reach 25,000 posts)

5. I am gonna contradict myself here. There can also be an element of secrecy involved. lithium can put a complex mathematical model for each metric . Involving weightage of each classification which laura has just mentioned. Am I complicating things here?. Hmmm but I am feeling a bit light.........

Message Edited by muks on 07-28-2009 06:35 PM

[Ray.R]

I agree with LabBEAN,

If someone joined 10 years ago and posted / visited the site 3 times, does that make the person a Veteran?

Since the first bar would be for "Engagement", which means participation in any form within the forum (even giving kudos), then tags should be included..

🙂

[Laura F.]

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for all of the questions and suggestions!  I have some responses for you:

The idea behind the engagement box is to make it simple for everyone to understand which is why I propose that every activity has the same weight.  Obviously it's more difficult to have a solution accepted by another user than to apply a tag to a particular message, but both are engaging activities that we would like to reward.  Also, if we put a lot of weight on accepted solutions I think we will have many users that feel slighted when a reply that is not theirs is picked as the solution.  That is definitely not a dynamic I want to promote.  I want to reward providing a solution, but not have it be the driving factor for this box. 

I think Knight of NI will remain unmodified for now (especially if that's what the Knights prefer!).  We will have to look into what to do as people climb towards the 20,000 and above post mark.  

As for the length of time - this is definitely a tricky one.  If we do go with over length of membership, we probably need to modify the names.  I have not come up with good ideas so far so I left them as is in my proposal.  The suggestion about the number of hours spent viewing is good for the forums, but I don't know how well that translates to ni.com/community.  I will take a closer look at this.

Thanks for all of the comments!

Laura

[Ben]

Hi Laura,

Please submit a request for Lithium to implement screens for us to view the leaders in all of those catagories sorted from top to bottom.

Ben 

[Laura F.]

Hi Ben -

ni.com/community information does not come from Lithium so there cannot be a leaderboard for those categories as they are implemented now.  It will be something we consider for future - how best to display the information from both areas.  This project is focused on ranks only.  

The only information not in a leaderboard right now for the forums is number of posts, which I have previously requested.  

Thanks,

Laura

[muks]

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Obviously it's more difficult to have a solution accepted by another user than to apply a tag to a particular message, but both are engaging activities that we would like to reward.

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Ok then bring it on.........

[Laura F.]

So we're still working on this project, although quite slowly. 

For the third bar which currently represents number of logins and has levels Member, Regular, and Veteran, would we rather go with length of time that one is a member OR something like number of views of forum or community content?  

Either way - are there better names than Member, Regular, and Veteran that could be assigned to this metric?

A third option is to drop it all together.  Rank names would then need to end in Enthusiast rather than Enthusiastic Veteran.  

Thoughts?

Thanks,

Laura