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I like this idea in broad concept!
db0 mentions the threativore bot, which i am unfamiliar with, but I presume it does something like tally up up/downvotes on comments and posts?
If so, you could have like a best comment, best post, maybe most wide reaching kind of metric...
Then yeah, that's neat! Kind of an automated attempt at a 'bestof' type thing, on a rolling basis.
However... there may need be some kind of filtering or other, more complex rule system you might want to apply to this... as it could easily create a sort of positive feedback loop, where one super poster type person is just ... always on top.
(cough probably stamets cough, lol)
You could maybe say one particular user who wins the title, well, they get put into a sort of reserve roster for, I dunno, the next 5 weeks, so they can only 'win' once every 6 weeks, tops, and then the bot/algo defers to the next person who hasn't recently 'won'.
Presumably, if you wanted to bot-omate this, you could make a bunch of different categories or scores for 'awards'.
But again, ... do this kinda thing too hard, or in the wrong way, and ... well now you've just gamified posting/commenting, and that's how you build a hivemind, so... yeah, that would probably not be good.
And also, conceivably, you could basically do the inverse, and make something like an 'AntiCitizen' category, worst comment/post of the week, etc.
... I am guessing that might be a bit... more controversial suggestion though, lol.
I am not a member of this instance, and I am so new to Lemmy that I'm still in the process of grasping instances and federating and so on, so feel free to take everything I say here with some big grains of salt. But to add to this, rather than just a person, I think this could wind up emphasizing a trope-ic sort of personality rather than just enshrineing an individual poster, and push a community towards an "ideal poster," which, if everyone competes for is going to make things very samey and eventuallty an echo chamber. Though, I dunno, maybe that's what you want. Or not. Or maybe the instance is too broad in topics for that to happen, and this is a total non-issue. I have zero idea about this instance. Big grains of salt and all that.
I mean, in another comment in the thread stamual asked to opt-out
Yes, because he recognizes that if you just did a naive count of... total comment/post net upvotes per user, per week, he would probably just win every week.
The OP here suggests doing this kind of thing democratically, ie, via discussion and nomination, every week.
That seems like a lot of engagement just for users to sort of meta commentate, to me, so I'm kind of skeptical of doing it weekly, via discussion, and I'm going off of what I think db0's idea is, which would be to automate this via basically making some kind of bot and then some kind of additional script/ruleset/metrics.
I'm not quite sure what the exact rules, or the precise goal of those rules should be, though.
I think the idea of some kind of cool down for users only being able to win the award once in some timeframe is good, as that would let people know its not just a straightup mass popularity contest.
Even if stamets wasn't hardcoded out of that, he'd only win once every 6 weeks, by that very basic rule.
Maybe you could weight a week timeframe of a user's post/comment votes by that same user's total lifetime post/comment votes, or the average score of them, so that the whole thing is then comparing users by basically what would show up in their own 'top' comments/posts, trying to find which db0 user had the most disproportionately 'good' post, or cumulative week of posts/comments, by the user's own standards?
Or, you could do a kind of... mean lifetime post/comment score for all db0 users, over all lifetime of all users, as the basis for that metric.
Or, do that 'global' average, but on a weekly, rolling basis, not lifetime.
I dunno, I'm a stats dork just musing about how there are many, many ways you could try to do this via an automated ruleset, and also trying to mention that if you do do this, you have to be very, very conscious of the meta effects it could have... a whole lot of people like lemmy because it isn't as much of a hivemind/algo driven social space, so you probably don't want to accidentally re-invent something like reddit or tiktok in terms of gamifying social interaction.
EDIT:
Also, ... Stamuel? Like... as Sam is to Samuel?
Haven't heard that before, but that's pretty funny, lol.
Stamothy! You're clogging up the lemmy tubes again! Post more fiber!
Agreed on all counts. Especially that being one of the reasons why I'd want to be discounted. Another is just that I don't need it. If it's supposed to be to give praise to users who deserve it, I definitely don't. Like... people know who I am at this point or they don't. If they don't then they either will at some point or don't run in the same communities. But there are a TON of great users who don't get attention like they should. I don't want to take away from that.
As for Stamuel... yeah I dunno when that started but it makes me laugh everytime.
I often intentionally fuck up other peoples names for fun, like yamuel for yamlrider or captagon for cryptagion, I called you stamuel (Jasuel too lol) in the db0 chat and appears it catched on lmao
If I search Stamuel I can see someone calling me that over a month ago on Lemmy too. You've been infecting people for long enough apparently lol
if you mean this then yeah it's because i am friends with zizzy lol
Yup that'd do it lmao
Glad you agree!
Yeah I mean, just add a voluntary opt out list for yourself and anyone else who may just not want to become microfamous, I don't see any problem with that, Stamolio.
I guess if it really takes off, maybe make some note of that in a community post and also the nee user registration process?
As you yourself said, Stamrickson, whole lot of neurospicy m@teys, they might appreciate not being unknowingly signed up for a kind of popularity contest.
I'm kind of regretting not having Stamolio as my username now. That's unironically kind of awesome...
I am not sure how to do these types of things. I just have random thoughts and input. I try not to be a dick about it, but I can't say that I am always succeeding in that goal. Much like I am not being able to succeed in finding a cutie nickname for you. God damn it you fucking poltergeist
Hehehe!
I just did a uh... I dunno, an internal wetware bogo sort of multi syllable male name suffixes, appended them to the first syllable.
Can't really predict what people will like when it comes to nicknames, but I'm glad you like it lol.
Now my name... yes, a ghost is one of the intended meanings of my name, but not a poltergeist... they make too much of a disturbance, leave evidence that they exist.
Me on the other hand... I like disappearing acts, though the last one I pulled off ... well, it nearly killed me.
Anyway, what do you mean you don't know how to be creative? That radio adspot thing you did was legitimately awesome, and nobody can do 100% creative flow state 24/7, I think you may be being too hard on yourself, Stammie.
I actually do random stupid ad things like that all the time. I just post them in the matrix general channel for dbzer0 for the sake of fuckin around a little bit.
And fair on the not being a poltergeist bit... I'm still waking up so I'm still trying to think of something. MY BRAIN ISN'T BRAINING.
Its ok lol, you're under no obligation to come up with a cutesy nickname variant, haha!
Besides, I already did:
speck
Implies smolness.
... After a long time on the web, using various monikers, I've found that anything that can't be easily shouted as an immediate, specific warning in an fps game, well, that's a requirement for my use case, lol.
So, stick with something that can be easily shortened to two syllables, max.
Then, from there, the harder part is to find something with as many intended layered or multiple meanings as possible, or a clever play on words... that last one is harder to do in a way that won't uh, cringe with age and time... culture moves in weird ways.
... So what better than a variant of spectrum, which literally means ... a wide variety of things within a defined category?
Oh right and I am literally on the spectrum.
And I have fun with optical physics, due to game modding / dev tinkering.
And when you shorten it to just spec, will, maybe I'm built to spec, or designing a new spec, which may be related to spec ops, immersive, tactical style gameplay...
And then of course there's the ghost stuff too.
And the l33t speak throw back spelling, yeah, that's part of what I unironically consider my culture.
... But hey, what's in a name?