How about total and average "read" counts in the "Top Contributor" Section?

[Former Member]

If SDN bloggers were also ranked by total reads of blog posts and average reads per blog post (two separate rankings) in the "Top Contributor" section, folks could really stick it to any given blogger by not even opening their posts.

What better way of showing dissatisfaction with a poster than affecting his or her total reads and average reads per post?

What do you think?

djh

[former_member181923]

Anton -

Before I had a chance to respond to your comment here, Valery and Nigel made their response posts to my original "widget" post.

I think that their responses alone are a more than sufficient indication that your comment here is not really a valid objection. Therefore, I hope you will take the time to read my response to them.

Also, I hope you will take the time to read my first response to Ajay in his thread here. Although Ajay and I still have a long way to go to resolve our disagreement, I think my response to him indicates why maybe you should have taken the "widget" part of the post title as "satire" rather than "false advertising".

Best regards

djh

[Former Member]

That's probably the main reason that we have those guidelines (the ones written) about "titles of blogs" - I have to agree with Anton - very misleading.

I would suggest you browse through those written guidelines for future reference.

https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/Community

[Nigel_James]

I don't think it's such a bad thing but Craig has already given it the thumbs down. Why shouldn't I be able to read the data anyway I like. API's for SDN so we can mash it this way and that.

I was going to make some comments on the widget issue but I won't. Its all semantics and etymology!

Cheers,

Nigel

[Former Member]

What did I give a thumb's down?

API's for SDN I never said they wouldn't happen in fact I'm pushing for them - hope to have some this year too

[Nigel_James]

hmm thought I read somewhere that you said you were giving the thumbs down to the proposal by David. Must either be dreaming or skimming too fast. Sorry for any confusion.

API's later this year? Really? That sounds fun!

Nigel

[Former Member]

I've given thumbs down for several but that was not one of them

[Former Member]

whooo,

my English language capabilities unfortunately start to leave me speechless on that. so, in short:

concerning the valid objections statement: I think this is some hostage-taking of witnesses

concerning the proposal: I am still against it. Hey, just one voice.

concerning this case: closed for me due to uselessness.

anton

[Former Member]

until today I would have been supporting this idea.

but then, today came a <a href="/people/david.halitsky/blog/2007/01/24/a-widget-for-cascading-recomputation-of-quantities-in-treed-sap-tables-eg-ckis">blog</a> which completely changed my mind on this. THe author of that blog used a 'buzz word' in the title of this blog, which certainly drew a lot of readers to read it just to find out that this 'buzz word' was used total out of the common expected context.

To me, this is almost like the tactics of a lot of spam emails which promise something in the subject line just to trick you in to read something completely different.

I was tempted to post a comment with "Free porn inside!" in the subject line and, of course, some harmless content inside. I didn't do it due to my respect for the community, although some fun comments shouldn't do any harm to the community either. Than came this post here ...

Summary: I am against this proposal.

regards,

anton

[former_member181923]

Hi Anton -

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

I would like to straighten out what I think is a misunderstanding concerning why I posted the "widget" post with a title containg the word "widget".

But I have to straighten out a prior misunderstanding with Ajay first.

So please be patient and I will return to this thread after I respond to Ajay in the thread that he recently started.

Regards

djh

[eddy_declercq]

Hi,

If I remember it well, this idea has been posted a while ago. The problem is that contributions with a specific target audience "score" less than more general ones, which is not fair towards the contributor. I deliberately don't give any examples nor use the words geeky, specialists, etc, but I hope you catch my drift.

And popularity is not always the synonym of quality. TV shows (soaps, etc) are a good example of this.

Eddy

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Pimp up the S(D)N site and earn points. Check this <a href="/people/eddy.declercq/blog/2007/02/01/pimp-up-the-jam log</a> for details

[former_member181923]

Hi E -

Glad to see you're still active here in the Forums, at least for the moment.

One possibility would be to replace the current "General" content category with one called "Perspectives" and to weight the reads of posts in this category less than the posts in the other specialized categories.

The weighting factor could be empirically determined, for example, by examining the total current reads for several "generalists" vs the total current reads for several specialists.

Also - to me the main point of the rankings was not positive but negative - to encourage SDNers not to even open the posts of bloggers with whom they are in fundamental disagreement.

So if you look at the new rankings as a "negative" control in this way, the quality issue doesn't arise.

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

djh