RE: Some more thoughts on User Authority
While reputation and UA have tried to solve an issue. Is it something we really want to solve with automation and algorithms?
So what if I’m rep 60 and whatever UA score. That means nothing if you don’t even know me. It seems like a way of trying to determine someone’s worth without even getting to know them. If you look at the social credit system in China do we really want anything near that?
Sometimes you just can’t beat without old fashion engagement. Everyone will also have there own criteria. So unless your going have a field with 100 different metrics where people can go in and craft their own “idea” person to find and support. Which again good old fashion engagement does just that.
I should not have to go somewhere and list all the things I’ve done to be considered worth being around. That also coming from someone who just spent way to many hours digging into the gaming tag and not finding what I wanted. Would it be nice to have it fully automated? While that be nice that also just slowly starts to drain the soul out of this place even more.
It is an attempt (better than Rep imo) in potentially finding someones interestingness without knowing them first. Of course, and as with Rep, you may check the account out and disagree with the majority, and that is ok too.
Perhaps a scoring mechanism will be thought of which includes engagement metrics? ;)
If I recall once someone made a "why should I follow you" post where he wanted the minnows to share why they are worth following. We need that but not so much manual labor.
Best case we end up with a few different attempts at this so people can pick and choose what they want.
I think that may turn out to be the case. Multiple APIs covering different metrics to choose to slot into a community or SMT.