Sorry for flattening out the level of the discussion, but ... On Sun, 03 Apr 2005, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 10:43:57AM -0500, Ricardo SIGNES wrote: > > * "David A. Golden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-04-02T05:27:18] > > > Andy Lester wrote: > > > >Why is there a scoreboard? Why do we care about rankings? Why is it > > > >necessary to compare one measure to another? What purpose is being > > > >served? > > > Why is there XP on perlmonks? Or Karma on Slashdot? Or for that > > > matter, why do we grade students' exams (particularly, why do we often > > > grade them on a curve)? I'm a teacher but some of my students don't seem to care about their grades :-( I try to make it game-like, with mixed results. > > This is not a good analogy to Kwalitee, because XP and Karma are > > primarily awarded by humans who can make judgements based on reason. What about money as an analogy to Kwalitee. Everyone agrees it's pretty important, but as Open Source people we also agree that it's not VERY important. So we pay people with Kwalitee play money tokens for doing their modules right. It's hokey, but that's the point. > I think you are thinking of Reputation (which a node has), not XP > (which a user has). Speaking of reputation, what about factoring in the results of Google searches. If it has lots of links to it on the web, it bears checking out. Science is 'a kind of "gift economy" where freely recognized reputation is the systemically defined resource sought by participants.' --Gus DiZerega -- Greg Matheson, Taiwan
