Scoring System vs Member Points System

Scoring System vs Member Points System

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We're trying to decide on our reputation system for our new community, but we were told that Telligent leverages two distinctive models, one based on quality and one that just adds points. We are looking for a rep model that awards quality, yet displays a quality score to users to promote gaming. Is there a way to merge both models so that we can utilize the quality aspect with decay factors, yet set up points to award quality tasks.

If not, we'll have to rely on the quality score system, but are there any widgets that display to users who the top members are based on their quality contributions (along with the calculated score?)

Matt Chinn

SAGE

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  • In Telligent 7.0, we introduced a new scoring system. Along with that we've created a few scores, primarily around quality and abuse. Our quality scores (for content and authors) are normalized and are a relative score used for comparative purposes only. Displaying the raw Author Quality score isn't recommended as there's no meaning to the values (for ex. User A = 0.103486, User B = 0.087643, User C = 0.002345). You can use the Member List widget to display the "Top Quality Authors" for a group, and this will rank the group members based on their author quality score in the group.

    The existing points system is a point aggregator which primarily concerns itself with participation. There is no out-of-the-box way to merge the two systems at this time. You could create your own custom score that combines the two and then choose to rank members according to that new score value. This would require custom development. For example, you could configure the points system to only accrue points for participation type activities and then take that value and multiply it by the user's Author Quality score. This would, in effect, recognize the users who create the most content of the highest quality.

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  • In Telligent 7.0, we introduced a new scoring system. Along with that we've created a few scores, primarily around quality and abuse. Our quality scores (for content and authors) are normalized and are a relative score used for comparative purposes only. Displaying the raw Author Quality score isn't recommended as there's no meaning to the values (for ex. User A = 0.103486, User B = 0.087643, User C = 0.002345). You can use the Member List widget to display the "Top Quality Authors" for a group, and this will rank the group members based on their author quality score in the group.

    The existing points system is a point aggregator which primarily concerns itself with participation. There is no out-of-the-box way to merge the two systems at this time. You could create your own custom score that combines the two and then choose to rank members according to that new score value. This would require custom development. For example, you could configure the points system to only accrue points for participation type activities and then take that value and multiply it by the user's Author Quality score. This would, in effect, recognize the users who create the most content of the highest quality.