Obviously the awards are off a little

 

How the heck did I lose 4300 points?!

 

i gotta step my game up lol.

 

i just checked out what my position is, 90 isn't bad but i'm a lil concerned for myself with the 94.4% activity time lol

 

The scaling of this is completely fucked up, and so are the parameters that are used for 'Activity'. Either fix it or get rid of this ****.

 

interesting i like it

 

Still not sure how the activity part gets calculated. I dominate a lot of ppl in post count, and i've been here much longer, and still they have higher activity? Not sure how this works exactly lol

 

You should be proud! I'm 99.8%

I'll trade you

 

It's automatically calculated based on the forum's usage. I've never heard this complaint before. Could you please elaborate?

 

That's what I'm trying to figure out, too. It's completely screwed up.

 

Well we will all know who has a life and who doesn't now

 

Could you give us an idea of how activity is calculated? I don't believe I'm on here 99.8% of my life

 

I think that a lot of people who have been here a long time, have a lower post per day ratio than some of those with more points. does that make sense? otherwise it's probably that recently you're posting less than you used to?

 

Explain the 'Activity' level of myself, ls1fbody, and the people that have 100% activity but have half the number of posts.

Also, are you excluding any forums from the calcuations?

 

Alright, could you let me know what my award is? It just says #3. Confuses me.

 

This makes sense. Didn't even cross my mind. Durr.

thanks!

 

No forums are bring excluded. I think it means that currently they are posting at 100% of the current average posts per day on the site, though I could be mistaken.


If you go to the main experience page: Cobalt SS Network - Ranking then click on awards, you can get more of a description about your award, and what things it's awarded for.

cheers,
robb

 

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

 

K....

ls1body posts per day - 13.73 ---- Activity = 51%
Shibito posts per day - 9.37 ------- Activity = 99.8%

Thus, the Activity parameter is horribly, horribly skewed to the point that it's useless and you might as well not include it.

 

activity considers your: posts per day, visitor messages, social group messages, and last forum activity information.

 

I'm gonna have to quit my job so I can get my rep up.

 

Sure. Well it looks pretty, but for it to be ANY indication of contribution to the site you need to exclude, at the very least, the Dungeon sub-forum, if not the entire off-topic forum. I understand the software is capable of this. Better yet, and perhaps more fairly to frequent off-topic posters, those posts need to be weighted less - maybe 0.5, for example.

I have found the weightings and they are the culprit, as arbitrary as they are:

x0.075 per post, and x10 for being the last post in a thread? The latter is no accomplishment. I have 641 points for my 8,000 posts, and 2,890 additional points because 289 of my posts were the last ones in a thread? That makes ZERO sense. Fix: crank up the value for each post, and kill the off-topic forum and you've fixed the skew in the "points for post," and also the skew in "points for threads" for anyone that has created a ***** thread.

Lastly... kill the blue bar all together... it's of no importance to anyone else how many more points you need to get to the next level. It's just creating clutter.

 

Wow another form jumping on this! It must be like the evo mod wagon. One form does it they all do it !! lol

 

This is pretty neat. Useful in a lot of ways, too.

I likey

 

hey, the bars are up