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155342.80 in reply to 155342.79
Date: 8/29/2010 2:14:45 PM
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No, Im not. It is just about alive forum, I guess.

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Date: 8/29/2010 3:43:32 PM
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While the one ball system works well to point out which individual posts are of most interest, it does not give any good indication of the general quality of a user's posts as the system is more correlated with quantity than quality.

Then of course the latter is not really that important, but atabakin's suggestion of average ball per post would be better.

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Date: 8/29/2010 3:47:14 PM
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I think the average ball per post would be useless, because most posts aren't rated, and the ones that are rated will generally just be +1.
So almost everyone in BB is going to have an average post rating of about 0.2 or something really small.

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Date: 8/29/2010 4:01:59 PM
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I think the average ball per post would be useless, because most posts aren't rated, and the ones that are rated will generally just be +1.
So almost everyone in BB is going to have an average post rating of about 0.2 or something really small.

That's just a question of normalizing. Of course user's that writes tons of posts would have a hard time getting a high average as most of their posts would never get rated (partly because you can only rate a user ones per every 12 hour or so).

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Date: 8/29/2010 4:07:44 PM
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I think the average ball per post would be useless, because most posts aren't rated, and the ones that are rated will generally just be +1..

.. Said Naker Virus who has the biggest number of messages not only in this thread but probably at all forums.

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155342.85 in reply to 155342.84
Date: 8/29/2010 4:08:27 PM
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At least I'm active on the forums.

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155342.86 in reply to 155342.83
Date: 8/29/2010 4:08:55 PM
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Normalizing how?

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155342.88 in reply to 155342.85
Date: 8/29/2010 4:14:07 PM
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At least I'm active on the forums.

Active should not mean the number of posts ;)
Active user should first mean useful(as for me).

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Date: 8/29/2010 4:16:34 PM
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I suppose.
I don't think it is really that necessary though. The old rating system was bad because you could give 1 balls to people and it created a negative atmosphere, especially on the help forum. This new system is an improvement because it is a positive reinforcement only, and encourages users to post in my opinion.
Also some people might like to collect balls and so they might put more effort in to posts to get more balls.
And there is no in-game advantage to having more balls, so I don't think it really needs to be changed any more. There are other things in BB that would be better to work on.

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155342.90 in reply to 155342.88
Date: 8/29/2010 4:18:16 PM
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So I'm not helpful?

I think number of posts has a lot to do with how active you are.
Posting 1 helpful post a week doesn't make you active.
When I say you I don't mean you personally.

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