“we’re going to dig more into comparison ranking systems, by focusing on competitive rankings and looking more in depth at ELO Chess Ranking System and the other systems that we briefly mentioned previously. Our goal is to explicate these systems, to better address their flaws, to begin detailing the purposes of ranking systems, and to show how those purposes are critical in the design of ranking systems.”
A good overview of programmatic ranking / reputation systems, with some basic mathematical analysis of how each works and what they achieve (or fail to achieve). Good if you already know what you want to acheive, but want some ideas/pointers for the actual technical implementation to choose.
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You left out the link (http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2006/01/ranking_systems.html)!
Thanks.
In my defence, that was NOT supposed to show up on the front page of the blog. That’s meant to only appear in the links section (like many people, I’ve rejected WordPress’s historically mostly useless “links” support in favour of using a custom category with custom fields in each post in that category).