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says
2023 Certified Organ Donor
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Wow, your post has just made me think! Maybe we make ranking based on how many likes you have per post?
Dan, this might be the best possible indicator we have without time-consuming analysis.
Still, I believe this method to be flawed. It is still possible to amass a large number of likes, thus achieving a very high staus of POST to LIKE ratio, even without significant contributions. We make the assumption that a LIKE equates to some significant contribiution, but that is not always the case. I hit the LIKE on Carl's post several posts above out of admiration for his satire, not out of what it contributed to the forum.
I have a nearly 10 to 1 POST to LIKE ratio and I strongly feel that significantly over-rates any value I provide the forum. There are TTD forum members who i consider more valuable than I who have a 50 to 1 POST to LIKE ratio. Maybe my ration is like that as I do not make a large number of short posts that do not say much.
Therfore, I feel that although your idea has a lot of merit, and even is the best viable method to achieve the goal of recognizing quality and value to the forum. I still maintain that it can be a flawed method. Only some analysis over a body of work with sprecified and subjective crteria can be close enough to 100% effective, but even that can be a bit flawed.