> While h-index and karma are great to measure, well, measurable contribution to the community, it fails to capture the contribution to the community...
i really don't know how any of the stuff that you have mentioned is empirically verifiable or in other words, as you have so rightly indicated, measurable.
how would you rank things based on stuff that you cannot even measure ? e.g. if 'sharing what one sees in this community, and spreading it through other channels' is something that is looked at as a measure of contribution, how would you go about doing it ?
i could probably think of couple of ways. none of which will not appear 'creepy' e.g. one very obvious approach might be that we start linking up things like facebook/reddit/g+ etc. accounts here and start tracking things ? thereby, generating over a period of time, metrics which measure node (that's you !) centrality etc...
i really don't know how any of the stuff that you have mentioned is empirically verifiable or in other words, as you have so rightly indicated, measurable.
how would you rank things based on stuff that you cannot even measure ? e.g. if 'sharing what one sees in this community, and spreading it through other channels' is something that is looked at as a measure of contribution, how would you go about doing it ?
i could probably think of couple of ways. none of which will not appear 'creepy' e.g. one very obvious approach might be that we start linking up things like facebook/reddit/g+ etc. accounts here and start tracking things ? thereby, generating over a period of time, metrics which measure node (that's you !) centrality etc...