Quote from: johny1976 on November 13, 2013, 04:32:20 PM

Quote from: moderate on November 13, 2013, 04:26:51 PM

Quote from: johny1976 on November 13, 2013, 04:19:12 PM

Quote from: moderate on October 27, 2013, 05:41:25 PM

Hey meta-people. So I was wondering about this "activity" you show for each user based on the amount of posts combined with the post frequency over weeks since registration, and other details I'm possibly forgetting right now.

My issue with this metric is that it is completely irrelevant, I see users posting replies like "lol, right", "me too", "hi", "you're welcome", and so on. Which are fully useless, add nothing to the topic, yet increases the activity. I can imaginate a couple of reasons of why people do that, like being close to 10 years old, raising activity in accounts for selling them so other people can promote their services with sock puppets, or getting a higher rank. I have no hope for the first situation, this requires a nation-wide re-education which this forum cannot handle.

The other situations can be partially handled by simple rules, a more advanced system would apply some form of NLP. Would it be possible to not count towards activity replies with less than 5 words ? Maybe even reduce the activity when that occurs. People reported as trolls and such should never have their activity increased until they stop trolling. You could also take a dict and only count the words in a reply that appear in that dict, if it is below 5, then it cannot count towards activity either.

This bothers me because legitimate "hero members" and others are negatively affected by this kind of people.

Calculation of activity is set to repel scammers like you - you then have a hard time to rob somebody. Wink

What exactly I'm selling to scam anyone ? You're confusing yourself with me now, please don't do that again. Go create another thread for selling your scamwheel.

I'm not scammer and we both know it.

I don't know that you are not a scammer. Removed all the rest, but the reply is the same.

Are you aware what this topic is about ? By now I'm 100% sure you can't read at all, so it must be really hard for you to use this forum properly. Go ahead and create a topic on Scam accusations about me, but keep this thread with messages on topic.