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			01-28-2011 10:18 AM
Thank s for the change!
It looks like I Lithium-admin and Mathan a couple of beers.
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			01-28-2011 01:12 PM - edited 01-28-2011 01:17 PM
Felix
Congrats on joining the "Centuian club"
( as soon a Ben Kudos your last post- I bet its coming soon) 

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Felix Joins the Centurian's- kudos sortable!
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			01-28-2011 04:56 PM
@Ben wrote:
Thank s for the change!
It looks like I (owe) Lithium-admin and Mathan a couple of beers.
Ben
I think the more profitable protocol involves requesting beers from groupies. "So, I hear you like me, have a beer!" Psych. "So, I hear you like me, I'll take a Shiner." Money.
 Happy Friday
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			01-28-2011 05:40 PM
It's not the few large donors on top that really count, but the size of the long tail. 😄
(Chris Anderson gave a NI week keynote a few years ago)
For example count the number of donors with more than one kudos donation. 😉
01-29-2011 08:26 PM
So at first thanks (Laura) to get the new sort feature.
Second, thanks to Ben for Kudos No 100.
Thanks to Jeff to compile the list from the other point of view. Wow, impressive. All those people kudoed on this page by Ben are brilliant posters. Again, I'm very proud to appear on that list. Especially as Ben is outstanding with his experience, his judgment is worth more than any statistical number...
I'll try to verify if we have a pareto-distribution and get a quantitative measure of the long tail. But don't expect it too soon, as other contributions to our community need their share of time as well.
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			01-31-2011 07:29 AM
@f. Schubert wrote:
So at first thanks (Laura) to get the new sort feature.
Second, thanks to Ben for Kudos No 100.
Thanks to Jeff to compile the list from the other point of view. Wow, impressive. All those people kudoed on this page by Ben are brilliant posters. Again, I'm very proud to appear on that list. Especially as Ben is outstanding with his experience, his judgment is worth more than any statistical number...
I'll try to verify if we have a pareto-distribution and get a quantitative measure of the long tail. But don't expect it too soon, as other contributions to our community need their share of time as well.
Felix
So how do we distinguish the tail of answering questions vs the tail of posting ideas?
Quoting Lucy "Hmmmmm???"
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			01-31-2011 09:06 AM
@Ben wrote:
So how do we distinguish the tail of answering questions vs the tail of posting ideas?
Quoting Lucy "Hmmmmm???"
Ben
This might be somewhat moot. As it is Kudos is one metric (of many) that tends to indicate strength of contibution to the forum. While I tend to focus in LabVIEW and certain hardware boards- Others seem more interested in Idea exchanges or TestStand. Sorting Kudos to user by Board or Community could show an interesting means of identifying "experts" in specific diciplines yet, the advanced users with the familiararity to utilize this fearure have probably made fair guesses that are reasonably acurate from direct interaction with the users. At best, it may aid in identifying "Mentors" in new fields of exploration. (Like, who should I listen to when I delve into Utiliboard) Again some time "trolling" the new board would give me a reasonable idea.
But I'd USE the feature if it was available
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			01-31-2011 11:14 AM
@altenbach wrote:
It's not the few large donors on top that really count, but the size of the long tail. 😄
(Chris Anderson gave a NI week keynote a few years ago)
For example count the number of donors with more than one kudos donation. 😉
OK I'm not the super-statistician (I rightly leave that to others.) but Christian Got me thinking of a point that Darin K. suggested when Ben threatened to stop giving Kudoes (search Kudoholics).
I took a look at some of those "tails" and the following graph is suggestive of some form of "Organization - in - Chaos" although I won't postulate any conclusions. (its a representitive sample only). Below, Kudos from users to Myself, F. Schubert, Darin K. and Ben.
Does this suggest the Forums are "Self- Organizing"? Could a general statement be concluded?
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			01-31-2011 11:54 AM
@Jeff Bohrer wrote:
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Does this suggest the Forums are "Self- Organizing"? Could a general statement be concluded?
All I can figure from that graph si you don't give yourself enough Kudos.
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			01-31-2011 12:08 PM
@Jeff Bohrer wrote:
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Does this suggest the Forums are "Self- Organizing"? Could a general statement be concluded?
after looking agin... it is antialphabetical order.
Ben