Timeline for Add a rep "batting average"? (similar to the questioner's accept rate)
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| Aug 12, 2011 at 1:29 | comment | added | weiji | One could also argue that you should raise the daily limit, and/or find a balance between when too much time per day on SO is unhealthy. Again, having a rep average is helping the community by providing a way of moderating burnout and curbing overindulgence. | |
| Aug 12, 2011 at 1:27 | comment | added | weiji | Another way to look at a capped user is that people then start to understand what a "high" rep average should be, and someone with a much higher average is probably artificially inflated. So your argument actually supports my suggestion, because IT SHOWS THAT REP AVERAGE IS SELF CORRECTING. (All caps because I did not think of that without your prompt, thank you) :) | |
| Aug 12, 2011 at 1:20 | comment | added | weiji | @DVK well, a year later I come back to this one, I've added a pretty big edit. A rep-per-answer-pre-daily-cap would be complex only because there's so much history to backfill. If the suggestion is turned down because of that, at least agree it's a good idea first - let's see if I'm persuasive or not :) | |
| Oct 7, 2009 at 17:30 | comment | added | DVK | @Mark - complex? Likely. Needlessly? No. I basically stopped paying attention to reps once I notice that MANY mid-rep (3k-7k) people's main scores came from early non-programming-related fluff threads and they had very few highly marked technical Q/As. That's why I previously advocated per-tag rep which was mercilessly voted down on Meta :) | |
| Sep 12, 2009 at 8:49 | comment | added | Marc Gravell | That seems needlessly complex? | |
| Sep 12, 2009 at 0:44 | comment | added | weiji | how about a "rep-per-answer-pre-daily-cap"? :) | |
| Sep 11, 2009 at 14:39 | comment | added | gnostradamus | +1: This would definitely skew the rep-per-answer metric too low for those who answer lots of questions after hitting the rep cap. | |
| Sep 11, 2009 at 14:35 | history | answered | Marc Gravell | CC BY-SA 2.5 |