At Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:44:47 -0400, Timothy Falconer wrote:
On Sep 29, 2009, at 11:08 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
At Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:45:08 -0400, Timothy Falconer wrote:
I think the piece that's missing here is that it will be pretty rare to actually change from one level to another, especially for younger children.
Is this based on the logic described at http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-361? It would be a bit surprizing to hear because "maxMojo" change alone affects everybody's rank. Since the owner of maxMojo probably will earn more points quicker than others, and the ranks are linear scale of the point, I would expect to see bigger disparity over time.
Some of the details have changed since that list, but yes, the mojoLevel formula is current.
Ok, so the single person's behavior alone can change the whole system, yes?
Over time, some people will continue to contribute and others will stop. The formula rewards sustained effort, not past performance.
Hmm, are you saying that the top person will eventually stop so it is not going to be a problem?
Again, this is not a grade ... it's a thank you.
You usually don't take "thank you" away after giving it, right?
Yes, we could take the colored circles off the website. I think that people are finding them fun, at least the people I'm talking to, and I think there's genuine value in knowing that a commenter is a regular and not a puppet account.
Well, people should actually look at the contents to judge the quality of comments. I've been writing fairly stupid comments. They should be treated so.
Originally we were going to rank comments, but recently I decided that would be just too much for people to have to do.
Comment points are a recognition of effort ... not a grade, but a thank you.
When comment scribbling gets turned on (see the tracker), we'll have a way to prevent bogus comments from gaming the system.
... I wasn't talking about comment points. I wasn't talking about gaming the system either... What you said above was that people should feel good when somebody with higher level comments on their projects. And I said that people should read the actual comment and feel good when it is good.
-- Yoshiki