Respected Posters

[Bobby]

Now that the old rankings are gone, may I suggest the title of respected poster be applied to those who have earned it.

The words respected poster with a star could be placed next to the I.D. of such a person.

I can think of at least 30 to 50 members who qualify for a star, infact there are some who warrant extra stars !

Joe is deserving of 5 stars.
Wayne/l & Richkid 4 stars
***** & *****&***** 3 stars
*****,*****,*****,*****,*****,*****.*****.*****.***** 2 stars
* many 1 stars.

All the first stars could be chosen by a pole, just nominate !

Then:

How do you get a star ? well lets say only those with a star can give the OK to who gets one, this could be done every quarter by proposal of members .
How do the stars get an extra star, the stars vote on that

Can they drop a star ? sure can, the stars have the power to do that.

All the above is just a thought

Bob.

 

[pacer]

I'd be proud to get a negative rating......

 

[Realist]

I'd be proud to get a negative rating......

Please give me 5 negatives...

Realist -----

I like to be contrarian..

 

[nizar]

Joe is deserving of 5 stars.
Wayne/l & Richkid 4 stars

if u ask me, tech is up there with the best

 

[3 veiws of a secret]

Hmmm Why should we be discussing issues like this .I for one would read a post and say yes this is smart opinion " who wrote this" I then register the named user accordingly. In a nutshell for the few that post, I have a certain respect,as for others ,welllllllllllll! no future in wasting time .
Ok I might have some smart-arsed comments or sarcastic remarks -but generally it's all tongue in cheek,do I appeal to the masses because I'm a veteran or a 5 star B's ,I doubt it,I've never immersed myself in deep analysis, I'm MARRIED .

 

[Smurf1976]

Different people have different knowledge bases depending on the subject in question. So it would be hard to award a star rating when, for example, a well known poster has obvious skills in relation to technical analysis but shows little interest in, say, commodities as a long term position over the next 10 or 20 years.

There's nobody who knows everything. Best to form you own opinions as to who knows about what IMO. Put together, there's a huge amount of knowledge here on ASF but it doesn't all reside with any one individual.

 

[GreatPig]

Somersoft, which also uses vBulletin software, has a kudos system. People give kudos for particularly informative posts, and the number of kudos is displayed with each message using star-like symbols (one symbol for a certain number of kudos).

GP

 

[Joe Blow]

Somersoft, which also uses vBulletin software, has a kudos system. People give kudos for particularly informative posts, and the number of kudos is displayed with each message using star-like symbols (one symbol for a certain number of kudos).

GP

GP,

Yes, this software has a 'Reputation' system but up until now I have deliberately avoided activating it.

I may think about putting it to a vote if people are interested.

The thing is, its pretty easy to tell who the good posters are. A reputation system may just end up being redundant and cause problems. I can see it now: "My reputation is bigger than your reputation...."

 

[GreatPig]

Joe,

Yeah, I don't really see the point myself. You quickly learn who's worth reading and who's not.

GP

 

[canny]

I agree, it could become the battle of the egos.
Rather than this approach, it may be more sensible to use a favourites function, so we could all individually go to our list of favourites to read their most recent posts?

 

[Julia]

I find it hard to see how any sort of "personal rating" system could work.
Allocating kudos to particular people has to be subjective and could even stir up arguments.

Personally, I think it's fine as it is. We are all well able to make up our own minds about whose posts we value and whose we just don't bother reading.

Julia

 

[sails]

I agree with Julia - I think it would cause far more trouble and arguments than it's worth. Just look at the SPI thread - one man's trash is another man's treasure ...

 

[krisbarry]

There are far too many people on this board with very large bank account balances, large property portfolios and trading egos to match.

I say NO to rating people...it just creates another box for people to rate and slang off at each other.

Please can we have a class-less society in cyber-world!

...Alls we need here is a carpark full of BMW drivers, driving 4WD's plastered with private college stickers- god I get enough of that living in the real world.

Sometimes it really sucks living in a wealthy suburb full of Rich B_itches!

Then again I could always move to the broncs

Sorry if I have offened anyone :

 

[2020hindsight]

I say NO to rating people...:

:iagree: Even a clock that's stopped is right twice a day, eh stoptheclock?

Like my boss says, when I want your opinion, I'll give it to you :hammer:

 

[Duckman#72]

I find it hard to see how any sort of "personal rating" system could work.
Allocating kudos to particular people has to be subjective and could even stir up arguments.

Personally, I think it's fine as it is. We are all well able to make up our own minds about whose posts we value and whose we just don't bother reading.

Julia

Yes - we got rid of the old "Rating" system because of its limitations. But at least it was very straight forward and objective - you make a post and the tally went up.

With a new peer rating system - I can only see it leading to much bigger arguments and greater disputes than what we have left behind.

Thanks
Duckman

 

[It's Snake Pliskin]

Bob,

What about poster of the month? Have a poll and it could be based on contribution of the informative sense. There would be no chests to pin it on and no one could win it in a row.

Just a thought.
Snake

 

[Porper]

There are far too many people on this board with very large bank account balances, large property portfolios and trading egos to match.

I wouldn't believe 95% 0f posters regarding their net worth, let's face it for a start most of us hide behind user names and could be anyone we want to be.

I agree though that a rating system wouldn't work, we already have a few posters above trying the reverse psychology trick wanting to be rated -.

It would cause hassle with some of the regular contributors, spitting their dummies because so and so has got a higher rating than them.

We all know the good from the bad on here, so why change it.

 

[rederob]

The attached is a few years old, and American.
The data would likely be a significant underestimate of today's practices.
The question is, as always with self administered surveys, what value should we attach to it?
The undeniable fact is, the more data, the more credible the outcome.

 

[krisbarry]

I wouldn't believe 95% 0f posters regarding their net worth, let's face it for a start most of us hide behind user names and could be anyone we want to be.

I agree though that a rating system wouldn't work, we already have a few posters above trying the reverse psychology trick wanting to be rated -.

It would cause hassle with some of the regular contributors, spitting their dummies because so and so has got a higher rating than them.

We all know the good from the bad on here, so why change it.

Too True.

I can just see it now...so and so has $1 million in the bank, 10 properties in a portfolio and 5 gold stars...oh how the ego will just inflate...we all better stand up and take notice of this poster etc etc.

meanwhile, so and so has $5000 in the bank, no properties and 1 gold star , we better not listen to that poster as they have nothing to their name.

The funny thing is that many of the over inflated bank account balances, property portfolios and egos to match tend to perform poorly in the monthly stock comps. How ironic

 

[Bronte]

Just for the record:
Battman offered to meet Nick Radge when he was in Perth
Offer is always open for Joe (could have used $1000 bet)
& now doctorj has refused who lives local.