Is reputation important for you when discussing proposals?
Kotya Karapetyan
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I find that I tend to listen more carefully to what the well established community members say than to the opinions of newcomers. Newcomers can be right, but the probability is lower IMO (because they have less experience and know less details). If I don't know people by name, reputation is a good indicator. Do you agree or have a different opinion?
Poll Created Sat 21 Mar 2015 11:37PM
Measured reputation is an important feature for decision preparation Closed Sat 28 Dec 2019 11:01PM
I'd like to determine what the OSM community thinks about reputation measurements (like in StackExchange). Loomio lacks this functionality, and I find it an important drawback if considering switching to it for decision discussion and preparation.
Results
| Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |
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Agree | 60.0% | 3 |
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| Abstain | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Disagree | 40.0% | 2 |
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| Block | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Undecided | 0% | 11 |
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5 of 16 people have participated (31%)
Kotya Karapetyan
Sat 21 Mar 2015 11:39PM
A high-reputation member is likely to have more experience-based knowledge in the (OSM) field. Also, he or she has probably not created too much noise in the discussions previously, so the new message is less likely to be noise as well.
Kotya Karapetyan
Sat 21 Mar 2015 11:39PM
A high-reputation member is likely to have more experience-based knowledge in the (OSM) field. Also, he or she has probably not created too much noise in the discussions previously, so a new message is less likely to be noise as well.
Jan van Bekkum
Sun 22 Mar 2015 8:05AM
Because OSM is so open on the one hand and has a learning curve for mapping on the other one sees a very different level of maturity in feedback. This may help to solve that.
jgpacker
Sun 22 Mar 2015 12:31PM
While I agree that old and active members of the community tends to give more useful and interesting answers, I think that a "like" button is enough in most cases to show how much the community agrees with an answer.
Dan S
Sun 22 Mar 2015 10:53PM
I think reputation is more useful for "fact-finding" not "opinion-finding" or "consensus-finding".
In an OSM tagging context, weighting people's opinions by reputation will reinforce "old guard" "in-group" effects, too much inertia
jgpacker
Sun 22 Mar 2015 11:08PM
While I agree that older and more active members of the community tend to give more useful and interesting answers, I think that a "like" button is enough in most cases to show how much the community agrees with an answer.
Cyrille Giquello
Sat 11 Apr 2015 7:05AM
I think community reputation could be a help for some decision
jgpacker Sun 22 Mar 2015 11:08PM
Wanted to see what happened if I edited my vote.
Kotya Karapetyan · Sun 22 Mar 2015 8:25PM
@jgpacker: Likes are not accumulated. If you have 100 posts with 100 likes each, your new post will start all over again from 0 likes. Likes certainly do provide some idea of the community perception, but it's still not a personalized thing.