Re: Re: TIMTOWTDI doesn't mean invent an outlandish approach (usually)

[davido]

I know that discussions of the voting / reputation process within the monastery are generally viewed with distain, so this isn't a proposal, just another "what if" thought that your followup to my meditation provoked:

Allow voting to last for 48 hours on a given node. Then close the vote, and expose the reputation for all to see.

The problem that suggestion creates: After the close of voting do you still allow node edits? You should, in the interest of maintaining the highest quality in the final product of a node. But then how does one who fixed a reputation-sapping problem regain some of the face lost before the node was repaired, if the voting has already closed? The other problem is that nodes that get promoted to celebrity status (promoted to Tutorials) would never reach their full XP potential. And many of us find ourselves upvoting the good nodes years after they were written. Age shouldn't disqualify the good ones from gaining even better reputation.

The best and most practical solution is to leave it the way it is because we're all used to it, and it's just a fun / trivial aspect to the Monastery anyway. Of course it's still interesting to ponder on the what-if's.