NCAAbbs

Apparently the NCAAbbs administration is working on a new system to "grade" posters. I received this memo and thought it was very interesting,considering it involves a couple of you on this board...

just don't shoot the messenger!

Quote:*Memorandum*

NCAAbbs.com moderators:

It has come to the attention of the administration that certain members of the system are abusing their privileges on the boards by composing meaningless posts to falsely represent his/her personal status through increased post count.  These baseless and pathetic posts not only bog down countless threads, but also diminish the overall quality and appeal of the entire NCAAbbs.com system. 

Beginning July 15, 2005, the NCAAbbs.com message board system will no longer calculate post count for its members.

Instead, an alternate system is currently being tested for use by NCAAbbs.com.  The system, currently running parallel to the post count program on the admin side of NCAAbbs.com, grades posts using a set of "buzz words" and a "word count" program similar to what is found in Microsoft Word.  Use of sport-specific terminology, names of players and coaches, numerical statistics, and multisyllabic words will increase a poster's grade.  The number of words per post will be used to formulate the "buzz word" percentage score.

During the current beta testing period, the NCAAbbs.com sites BlazerTalk.com, The Lounge, and CUSAbbs.com have been under the scrutiny of the new grading system.  We have randomly chosen two posters' statistics, 'Flying Fetus' and 'BlazerSax', both representing BlazerTalk.com. 

Under the old post count system, the statistics are as follows:
blazersax=postcount~7400
flyingmouse=postcount~1400

Upon applying the new qualitative equation, the captured real-time statistics (19:34 07/08/05) are as follows:
blazersax=qualscore%0.0968
flyingmouse=qualscore%0.6572

Roughly translated: nearly 66% of all post content for Flying Fetus fits into the quality range, where as only 9.7% of BlazerSax post content fits into the same quality range.

We hope this new system encourages increased quality of posts as well as a decrease of thread-choking, pointless, baseless posts.

Upates on the progress to implement the new qualitative post-grading system will continue throughout the coming weeks. 

Thank you for your continued support of NCAAbbs.com.

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That's a joke, right?

Sometimes you just can't make this stuff up. GTS or some other admin will be making a more official announcement soon.

Please make smilies count :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

quit being such a wuss. you were selected because 90% of your posts are completely useless.

BlazerSax Wrote:

dfarr Wrote:quit being such a wuss.  you were selected because 90% of your posts are completely useless.

Kiss my a$$, tool. ALL of your posts are useless.

Sax,
This post will not earn you any points under the new system.

Question: are words such as wuss and a$$ going to be considered buzz words?

what's the use of ranking posters anyway....the administrators can skew the formula to make whomever they deem worthy the highest ranked.

That in and of itself makes the ratings useless and a joke....It would be better to just drop any sort of rankings all together.

I guess they have too much time on their hands to be worrying about inflated poster ratings.

I hope those in charge at ncaabbs aren't beginning to become more dictatorial over the sites that they host.

I saw it happen from the inside at Rivals and this is beginning to feel eerily similar.

I fail to see how this thread is smack material. Schard simply posted something that he received. I could see it going to the Bar and Grille but if he didn't come up with that himself, it's not smack. Like he said, he's just the messenger.

BTW, Is that a quality post? :D

Jumping Gerbils some people could grow up when behind a keyboard.

BlazerSax: You do that deleting posts after the thread is closed bull hockey again and I'll personally put your *** in the troll user group (all user privs other than post/reply/read revoked) and keep you there.

Quote:BlazerSax: You do that deleting posts after the thread is closed bull hockey again and I'll personally put your *** in the troll user group (all user privs other than post/reply/read revoked) and keep you there.

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Holly horse Feathers batman.......... :rofl: