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Influence Rankings
Obviously, it is incredibly difficult to put any number to somebody's influence. Influence is a very difficult thing to capture, as it is more than just how much somebody speaks and is in actuality how much the words affect the listeners. Because measuring listener effects is next to impossible, we're forced into something that doesn't take into account quality so much as quantity.
What I did was, for the month of February, dig in to the Ecclesia and count posts. Depending on the contents of the post, every member got a different amount of "influence points." I didn't count any votes after successful motions and I ignored World Assembly, Citizen Applications, and the Deployment thread as that was not a discussion of a proposal in February, rather a status update. I also counted public votes in February. The breakdown of points follows.
New Topic | 10 Points |
Successful Motion to Vote | 3 Points |
Seconding Motion to Vote | 2 Points |
Other Discussion | 1 Point |
Vote | 3 Points |
Abstention | 2 Points |
The following rankings are not meant to hurt anyone's feelings or suggest that anyone is better than anyone else. They are merely a fun thought experiment not to be taken too seriously. Without any further ado, I give you Taijitu's February Influence Rankings as of February 26.
Taijitu's February Influence Rankings
6
Cormac
(http://forum.taijitu.org/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=2049;type=avatar)
4
Delfos & Allama
(http://forum.taijitu.org/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=1980;type=avatar) (http://forum.taijitu.org/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=2048;type=avatar)
3
al 'Khem
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2
Gulliver
(http://forum.taijitu.org/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=1543;type=avatar)
1
Myroria
(http://forum.taijitu.org/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=2089;type=avatar)
Full rankings & points:
Myroria | 62 Points |
Gulliver | 42 Points |
al 'Khem | 26 Points |
Delfos | 22 Points |
Allama | 22 Points |
Cormac | 20 Points |
Dyr Nasad | 13 Points |
Bustos | 12 Points |
Musitant | 12 Points |
Pauline Bonaparte | 11 Points |
Funkadelia | 9 Points |
Of The US | 7 Points |
St Oz | 6 Points |
Letonna | 6 Points |
The Church of Satan | 4 Points |
Eluvatar | 4 Points |
Alina | 3 Points |
Stone Shark | 3 Points |
Rapture | 3 Points |
Erno | 3 Points |
Enchancia | 3 Points |
Wast | 2 Points |
Questions
Personally, I'm left with a lot of questions I have difficulty answering. Are these rankings fair? Do I put too many points on voting or discussion? Should I treat all discussion equally or go even further into qualifying which discussion deserves more points? Is this encouraging to the Ecclesia? Is this a good system to compare activity in the Ecclesia month-to-month? Do you guys want to see more?