2 years, 2 months ago
New identifiers for belt levels? How about Samurai?
In the tech section and others we often answer questions in our disciplines. How about in addition to belt levels which just identifies number of points which primarily reflect "best answers" ... How about another qualifier taht identifies where you got most of your best answers from. If you got say 50 best answers in Security then your a part of the IT Security Samurai? Guru? Something like that.
What you all think? Or got another term. It think this would really ad vaule you guys?
What you all think? Or got another term. It think this would really ad vaule you guys?
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The point system reflects a wide range of activities on Mahalo. For example:
- Completed tasks (10 points each)
- Answered questions (2 or 4 points each)
- Best answer (10 points plus 2 for every M$ in tip)
- Asker selecting best answer (2 points per M$ in tip)
- Voting for Best Answer or NBA (1 point)
- Logging on (up to 1 point per day)
- Widget views (I don't recall the number but it may be 1 point per 1000 views)
Etc.
As for the suggestion, Mahalo already has something in the new member pages that addresses it. You can look and see what fraction of a member's best answers were in each of his/her top 6 categories. You can also see what was the fraction of answers selected as best answer, how many best answers, etc. Finally, you can read the bio and see what areas the member him- or herself claim to have expertise in.
I'm not saying it's a bad idea, just that there are enough resources now to address the same thing, so I would not make it a priority for the devs.
- Completed tasks (10 points each)
- Answered questions (2 or 4 points each)
- Best answer (10 points plus 2 for every M$ in tip)
- Asker selecting best answer (2 points per M$ in tip)
- Voting for Best Answer or NBA (1 point)
- Logging on (up to 1 point per day)
- Widget views (I don't recall the number but it may be 1 point per 1000 views)
Etc.
As for the suggestion, Mahalo already has something in the new member pages that addresses it. You can look and see what fraction of a member's best answers were in each of his/her top 6 categories. You can also see what was the fraction of answers selected as best answer, how many best answers, etc. Finally, you can read the bio and see what areas the member him- or herself claim to have expertise in.
I'm not saying it's a bad idea, just that there are enough resources now to address the same thing, so I would not make it a priority for the devs.
You can leave an optional "tip" with Mahalo's virtual currency, Mahalo Dollars. If you are asking a difficult question that might require some research, or if you'd like a wide variety of feedback, a higher tip often leads to more answers to your question.
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I appreciate the new feature under profiles. but numbers generally don't motivate people the same way titles or classes of excellence do. Otherwise you wouldn't have belt levels.
Numbers might motivate if there was a dollar sign in front of it...
What I'm saying is you can make those numbers mean something 50+ in an arena gives you a Guru status (IT, Gardening, etc.). That status could be ported over to the snipit profiles next to answers like the belt at the bottom of the image is now. The advantage is tit would improve your community communication give the answers credit where credit is due and help newbies idenitify more trusted or valid answers. Before say they format there hard-drive or spread round-UP on there entire garden. It helps build a Web-Of-Trust.