Alan!...great comments!....I like them very much. But, I ain't gonna push the 'Like' button lest I fall into the metrics quagmire.
Talk about fertile fodder for psycho-babble!.....
So I have a question for the OGR staff.....
Based on the commentary of this thread, what value do YOU believe the calculated/posted Community Ranking number brings to the forum...the community....NOT the individuals who make up the community.
And, what I'm looking for is what YOU perceive the value of the CR number to be
...NOT what the salespersons/research 'experts'/metrics advocates say you should regard to be the value.
And that, especially, in the light of this thread and its comments.
I suspect they are stuck with it. (The researchers / salespeople / metric takers do these evaluations for forums in general, not this one.)
Even before the migration to this forum software, there was at least once when a "reset" caused post counts to vanish (some people were horrified, others didn't care). At the time, the OGR staff seemed to say "good riddance" to the counts. Then there was the whole Engineer/Conductor/Brakeman thing a while back that got canned (which was probably a good thing).
This is probably one of those "unless you want to write your own forum software you are stuck with it to some level" deals.
