Michael‭

"Score" isn't net votes. It's the Wilson Score, where 0.5 is the midpoint. See Codidact's scoring help page.

posted 2mo ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Michael‭

Can the Scoring help page's sample chart start at 0 votes instead of 1? Lots of posts probably have no votes or only up or down votes.

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Mithical‭

Jon Ericson takes the opposite position: find the miscreants as quickly as possible. My thinking has been heavily influenced by this philosophy of moderation written by the late Shamus Young. A ...

posted 2mo ago by Michael‭

I'm trying to make a filter for "Not that negative" posts, imagining "Net score > -2," but the UI of the filter creator only lets you put in Min Score between 0 and 1, with a step size on the sp...

2 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 8d ago by Monica Cellio‭

My Outdoors profile is bugged. I don't have any Abilities awarded—not even Participate—although I have been able to make posts and suggest edits. I finally decided it was actually bugged when I tr...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

I like that idea. I imagine it something like this: ___ ___ (0.3) ( 1 ) v v |--------|--------| (red) (green) I think the full red and green segm...

posted 2mo ago by Michael‭

I was on the Software Dev CD tag page, clicking through the pages of the "Hierarchy" sort. I wanted to see if there were git-* tags that are not nested under the git tag.[1] Surprisingly, I discov...

1 answer  ·  posted 27d ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 26d ago by Michael‭

The Edit Tags ability says How do I earn this ability? To earn this ability, you need to have roughly a 97.5% approval rate for suggested edits to either the detailed tag wiki or the usage guid...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

Can you add the Wilson Score tooltip from posts onto list pages as well? Either on the vote numbers, on the colored bar, or on both?

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Michael‭  ·  closed as duplicate 2mo ago by Michael‭