From this wiki https://communities.bentley.com/help/b/help_blog/archive/2013/12/15/the-new-and-improved-be-communities.aspx we get:
Reputation (Scoring) System
The points system rewards points for participation, but someone with a lot of points in the community does not equal a quality community member (a user could create 10 bad forum threads and get 50 points for it). We will be using the site's scoring system to manage or create scores that support measuring, calculating, and ranking content and community members.
But what is a bad post? Who scores this? Does someone go through every post for the site scoring each one?
A "bad post" is simply an inference to content that adds to quantity but does not have any qualitative substance. The bottom line to this is that we want to reward quality... quantity simply is a secondary thing.
Again define quality? Who decides what is good and what isn't?
The members of this community system. Good content is obvious to see. Contributors of good content will be rewarded accordingly.
Hi stuartw,
the scoring system, where the posts are evaluated by other community members based on personal opinion only, is widely used. My personal experience is it works quite well if the community is professional and mature without any clear definitions what is bad and good post. In such community the people share similar ideas what is worth and valuable information and what not.
I think the good example can be forums running under Stack Exchange system (e.g. Stack Overflow, one of the most important developers forum on Internet), where even original posts / questions are voted. It's the good tool if more different solutions are available for a particular topic and it's possible to compare them by received "points".
I think only time will tell how it will work here... ;-)
WIth regards,
Jan
Bentley Accredited Developer: iTwin Platform - AssociateLabyrinth Technology | dev.notes() | cad.point
Is this related to how the "top quality authors" section (on the right side when you are in a Home tab)? In some of the forums I frequent, the results don't seem to even come close to reality, with many people with high reputation scores being buried way down in the list, way below people with much lower reputation scores. Seems like that algorithm needs quite a bit of work still. Or something is wrong with the way it is sorting? Or maybe it means something completely different and I'm not understanding what it means...
Unknown said: Is this related to how the "top quality authors" section (on the right side when you are in a Home tab)? In some of the forums I frequent, the results don't seem to even come close to reality, with many people with high reputation scores being buried way down in the list, way below people with much lower reputation scores. Seems like that algorithm needs quite a bit of work still. Or something is wrong with the way it is sorting? Or maybe it means something completely different and I'm not understanding what it means...
I've seen this also. Posters with one post higher than those with 1000's!!