Re: The meaning of life, the universe and node repurtation

[hossman]

I submit that node reputation is pretty much useless to anyone but the auhtor of a node.

This is why I liked the Node Tension idea so much -- at least for node authors to see

I'd be a lot more interested in the rep of my nodes if i knew how many votes had been cast.

"rep: 10" ... is that 10 good votes, or 60 bad votes and 10 sympathy votes? was my post well recieved or not? oh well... i guess I'll never know.

[blssu]

Opportunity cost would be nice to know too. I'd like to know how many people read my post and then voted for somebody else. ;) Seriously, a post that gets 10 reads and 10 votes may be much better than a post with 1,000,000 reads and 100 votes. Knowing this could help solve Warnock's dilemma.

That said, perlmonks works perfectly for the community. Conversations are on-topic. Flames and attacks are rare. Wrong answers are quickly corrected. Changes at this point will only help authors seeking meta-enlightenment.

[Aristotle]

Yes, that is an interesting proposition. After some thinking, I do think others shouldn't be able to see any more than just the node rep as such - for a reason I can't quite put into words yet. But letting the author know the precise stats would provide them with even better feedback, which is all the concept is about.

Makeshifts last the longest.