Re: [lojban] Suggestions for jboselkei

[Cyril Slobin <slobin@sksys.net>]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Yanis Batura wrote:

> Following are my ideas which can be implemented in jboselkei.

First of all, thank you for jboselkei! Contrary to my initial beliefs, 
it is very addictive.

> 1) Titles. For achieving certain ratings users will receive
> titles, for example, for rating 10 a user will receive title "white
> belt", for 50 - "yellow belt", ..., for 1000 - "Master", for 2500
> -"Grandmaster" etc. The question is in names and numbers for titles. I
> think titles will be an additional stimulus for people to translate
> in jboselkei.

Titles must be in Lojban, of course!

> 2) giving 0.1 r.p. for each post and each review so that people have
> something as reward for their work

Good.

> 3) Computing proficiency in Lojban as: selecting only those translations from the set of the
> translations made by the user that were reviewed by at least three
> reviewers, then find an average value of these translations.
> (An value of a translation is a product of its estimated
> difficulty and its estimated quality.) This is, however, much more difficult to realize in
> real-time comparing with computing ratings themselves.

Not very good. The good stimulus is to recive rating shortly after work 
is done, and this suggestion makes waiting for revard too long.

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Cyril Slobin <slobin@sksys.net>