Greenguy's Board - View Single Post - Just have to get this off my chest, How Should Boards Be Ranked?

Jim · 2004-07-24, 06:19 PM

See, the problem is, you really don't want to use anything that is easy to artificially inflate. As I said, if I were to start a thread where I said, GreenguyandJim will give $$$ to the person that posts in this thread the most, we could easily jump up your list.

Threads are a little more difficult to inflate and views seem to me would be the most difficult. Take a look at your own stats. Look where there are many replies and few threads that are in the top 10. Then take a look at the board and most likely, someone is having a worthless contest of some sort. And some even post in the thread, we are just trying to get our post count up.

I know it is hard to rank as long as almost anything you can tangibly track can be inflated.

2004-07-24, 06:19 PM	#17
Jim Banned Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Mohawk, New York Posts: 19,477	See, the problem is, you really don't want to use anything that is easy to artificially inflate. As I said, if I were to start a thread where I said, GreenguyandJim will give $$$ to the person that posts in this thread the most, we could easily jump up your list. Threads are a little more difficult to inflate and views seem to me would be the most difficult. Take a look at your own stats. Look where there are many replies and few threads that are in the top 10. Then take a look at the board and most likely, someone is having a worthless contest of some sort. And some even post in the thread, we are just trying to get our post count up. I know it is hard to rank as long as almost anything you can tangibly track can be inflated.