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John Patrick
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I must be reading during a major upgrade to Fred's forum software, because I see these "Quote" and "Like" buttons under posts, and a series of dots under names. I can only assume the dots are some measure of participation?

(I wonder how many dots I'll have after I post this!)

John



Mar 15, 2013 at 10:23 PM
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Hmm. 4 dots. I've seen 6 for people with 10,000+ posts, so I'll have to figure the formula....

John



Mar 15, 2013 at 10:24 PM
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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Like, Quote, and lots of Dots!


Just noticed this. I only have 2 dots.


Mar 15, 2013 at 11:20 PM
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What does all of this mean?


Mar 15, 2013 at 11:56 PM
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i'd reckon it has something to do with total # of posts Or not, as the case may be


Mar 16, 2013 at 08:43 AM
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John Patrick wrote:
Hmm. 4 dots. I've seen 6 for people with 10,000+ posts, so I'll have to figure the formula....

John


I posted a "dot" thread before reading yours, John. Tryin' to figure this out too...
must be some relationship between ones sign-up date, # of posts, posts per day but
there's obviously more to it. Helpful posts (w/pics to support) may enter into the formula.
With a quarter million FM members, this has to be an "auto" assignment. Puzzling, eh?!



Mar 16, 2013 at 08:47 AM
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Will, IIRC, didn't there used to be a "Dedicated" descriptor included by the total # of posts? Or maybe I need another cup of coffee



Mar 16, 2013 at 08:57 AM
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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · Like, Quote, and lots of Dots!


There WAS, Tony...Fred's tryin' his best to keep us on our toes!


Mar 16, 2013 at 09:02 AM
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I only have 6 dots, but I don't participate in most of the forums.
I'm not sure what it means.

EBH



Mar 16, 2013 at 10:42 AM
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...........


Mar 16, 2013 at 11:54 AM
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Hi everyone,
We added many new forum features last night and I forgot to mention the "dots".
Basically it's just a visual way to see 'total number of posts'. If you mouse over the dots, you will see its range in numbers.
Eventually we will have a lot of info showing in the member's profile, including 'Featured thread wins', 'Received Likes', 'Positive Feedback', etc. Currently we have the "Assignment wins" without any link to the actual winning image. That will also be added soon.
Best,
Fred



Mar 16, 2013 at 12:08 PM
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Here's the graph I recently posted on the Alt Forum,

https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1197633/0#11419714

I just finished examining the relationships between number of stars and number of posts, and number of posts per year as FM member. For the twenty samples I selected, the correlation is the same for both parameter sets, at 0.871. Here's a graph of Number of Stars vs. Number of Posts for those twenty members, with vertical dashed lines at 5000, 10000 and 20000 to show what I think are likely threshold values.

P.S. this one has axis labels.







Mar 16, 2013 at 12:53 PM
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jcolwell wrote:
Here's the graph I recently posted on the Alt Forum,

I just finished examining the relationships between number of stars and number of posts, and number of posts per year as FM member. For the twenty samples I selected, the correlation is the same for both parameter sets, at 0.871. Here's a graph of Number of Stars vs. Number of Posts for those twenty members, with vertical dashed lines at 5000, 10000 and 20000 to show what I think are likely threshold values.

P.S. this one has axis labels.


Love it. Now we need to sample 200 posters.



Mar 16, 2013 at 01:50 PM
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p.1 #14 · p.1 #14 · Like, Quote, and lots of Dots!


Hey Fred, how come you don't have any dots?
.... also personally I don't "Like" anyone ..

Mike



Mar 16, 2013 at 07:27 PM
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jcolwell wrote:
Here's the graph I recently posted on the Alt Forum,

https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1197633/0#11419714

I just finished examining the relationships between number of stars and number of posts, and number of posts per year as FM member. For the twenty samples I selected, the correlation is the same for both parameter sets, at 0.871. Here's a graph of Number of Stars vs. Number of Posts for those twenty members, with vertical dashed lines at 5000, 10000 and 20000 to show what I think are likely threshold values.

P.S. this one has axis labels.


Where are the 1, 2, and 3 cutoffs?

EBH



Mar 16, 2013 at 07:49 PM
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p.1 #16 · p.1 #16 · Like, Quote, and lots of Dots!


Here is the entire range:

1 to 100: •
101 to 500: • •
501 to 2000: • • •
2001 to 5000: • • • •
5001 to 10000: • • • • •
10001 to 20000: • • • • • •
More than 20000: • • • • • • •



Mar 16, 2013 at 10:09 PM
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p.1 #17 · p.1 #17 · Like, Quote, and lots of Dots!


Can the number of posts really mean anything about the poster? I like to believe that there are many helpful people here that may not have many dots and I see this measurement as a nil value. Nothing, nada, zip...


Mar 17, 2013 at 03:10 PM
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p.1 #18 · p.1 #18 · Like, Quote, and lots of Dots!


Sarsfield wrote:
Nothing, nada, zip...


Or, in the words of Jethro Bodine, "nought plus nought equals nought."





Mar 17, 2013 at 06:33 PM
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p.1 #19 · p.1 #19 · Like, Quote, and lots of Dots!


So where is the vote for featured thread? I saw it on some of the last two days, but today its not showing up on new threads. Did I miss a change?


Mar 18, 2013 at 10:19 AM
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Sarsfield wrote:
Can the number of posts really mean anything about the poster? I like to believe that there are many helpful people here that may not have many dots...


I suppose one could compare the number of dots with the number of "Likes" and draw some conclusions about whose posts are really valued and whose posts are considered by the forum to be just so much hot air.

Or not.



Apr 14, 2013 at 11:52 PM
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