2007-07-06 10:12:11 · 7 answers · asked by timssterling 4 in Sports ➔ Martial Arts
@Mr. Bo Jangles
Why is this question in the martial arts section?
My guess is, because this section probably has the most junk answers : P
2007-07-07 00:36:00 · answer #1 · answered by Shienaran 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What he said. Alot of junk in this section, as well as a lot of junk questions. I think, though, any section based on an event you can both participate and be a fan of will have alot of junky answers. How many stupid answers do you seen in the Physics section? I don't know many Theoretical Physics fans. But I know alot of armchair martial artists.
As for determining level, I think they tried with the best answer points, top contributor tags for having over a certain percentage best answers as well as certain number of posts and points, etc. But it may not be enough. Instead of 10 points, I'd like to see 10 points + points for positive votes given to best. And anyone voting negative to best answer loses 2 points for vote. It sounds harsh, but the reasoning behind it is that alot of those negative votes we all get on our posts aren't from other posters, aren't even from people who give a crap about the posts, but from jerks who have nothing better to do than vote down everyone's post. That'd put a damper on their parade, although only a small one really. 2 points won't be much punishment, but whatever.
The real problem isn't how they have given points, but how Y!A, like Wikipedia, is largely citizen policed rather than moderated. This leads to friends giving friends best answers to boost scores and percentages. So, an equally helpful way to adjust the best answer system would be a "Unique best" algorithm. You'd get 10 points for best answers, 15 for "Unique" best answers, ie. a best answer for a person you'd never gotten one from before. This would promote answering everyone's questions to the best of your abiulity, rather than having a circle of friends give each other bests. Now, this doesn't seem to be a problem on the Martial Arts section, but I also frequent a few other sections, and it is a problem elsewhere.
In the end, very few of the suggestions we could ever come up with would be implemented. Like most services on the net, the initial release will be tweaked, but rarely overhauled. Too much code to rewrite, too much work involved, to completely rewrite some of the processes. But oh well. It's fun to think of how to improve it.
2007-07-07 12:46:58 · answer #2 · answered by necroth 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Like stated above, there is a balance. The better your answers the more points you get. You need to get some type of merit however so you get the two points for every answer. I suppose they could hire a review board, but with so many answers, the board would be flooded with answers.
2007-07-06 17:41:08 · answer #3 · answered by Niigata Reijiku 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I think its a balance, they do give 10 points for a best answer I would like to see that go up to 20 points actually which would give the quality answers a quicker road to the higher levels.
It is hard to go through and qualify all the answers to all the questions though. I guess they could do it on a voter system where the highest amount of votes gets bonus points.
2007-07-06 17:19:34 · answer #4 · answered by muzz 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Have you actually read some of the answers posted here? Yahoo didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings so they went with quanity over quality. I swear some of the people here are retarded.
2007-07-06 18:04:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
you're right. yahoo should hire a review board to examine each and every answer and award points based on merit
2007-07-06 17:21:17 · answer #6 · answered by Jilm_Jones 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why is this question in the martial arts section???
Quality questions help.
2007-07-06 18:13:14 · answer #7 · answered by Mr. Bo Jangles 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋