[mb-users] Brainztorming: rank edits, not users

[Aaron Cooper]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Philip Jägenstedt <philip at foolip.org> wrote:
> Just to play the devils advocate, there are a few problems with the suggestion:
>
>  * The burden of the server increases as it would be nessary to do a
>  lot of checks and calculations. The user-portion of the rank wouldn't
>  be cacheable either as it could potentially change with every edit.
>  Possibly this could all be implented via MotBot instead of real-time.
>  * If new users are instantly thrown in the fire of us over-zealous
>  voters, they might be deterred and leave. Review is good, but might
>  some feel "stalked"?

Good points.

Re: Stalking new users...

We could tweak the weighting system to not give *that* much priority
to edits from new users, but rather to things with No votes or missing
information (like release Language, Script, and Events).

-Aaron