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Re: Show HN: Weekend project - Gitscore

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Post by lifeisstillgood »

beastmcbeast wrote: post #5
avolcano wrote: post #2

It's cute. How does it calculate each statistic?

The score is calculated in three parts. 1) The reputation score is a count of the number of followers you have. 2) The contribution score takes into account the number of repositories you have. It factors in the number of watchers for each repository as well as the number of forks. It then doubles that score if you are the original owner of the repository (rather than the repository being a fork itself). 3) The gist…

Like democracy, it's Pretty hard to game followers. Thank you.

Re: Show HN: Weekend project - Gitscore

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Post by shaggyfrog »

foobar2k wrote: post #26
heliodor wrote: post #25

When you start measuring things, people start gaming them, so for github's sake I hope your project disappears into oblivion. Klout is the latest major sad example of this phenomenon. People are modifying their Twitter behavior in some fascinating ways to game their Klout score. However, people love shortcuts, so I'm sure you can refine your service and subscribe clueless HR folks to it.

I don't think that means people should not measure things, if we didn't measure things we would never improve.

Measuring things would be one thing (number of repositories, number of pull requests sent, number of changes committed, number of comments made). I think the concern comes with boiling down a bunch of (possibly unknown) measurements into a single number. Who is to say that the formula is the "right" one or the "best" one? And what happens when people start getting ranked in an absolute sense based on that score?

And if people start changing their behaviour because they're gaming the system (or is it the system that gamed them?), and that results in unintended consequences, do we (as a whole) come out ahead from where we started?

Re: Show HN: Weekend project - Gitscore

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Post by human_error »

Plugawy wrote: post #33
joelhaasnoot wrote: post #10

Seems broken on my Chrome Dev Channel - lots of JS errors and a blank score

I had the same problem and it turned out that if you block Facebook and/or Twitter you will break things.

I've the same problem with Safari. I don't see why I need to unblock to see the scores. This is bad design. I'll just pass.

Re: Show HN: Weekend project - Gitscore

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Post by beastmcbeast »

human_error wrote: post #34
Plugawy wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had the same problem and it turned out that if you block Facebook and/or Twitter you will break things.

I've the same problem with Safari. I don't see why I need to unblock to see the scores. This is bad design. I'll just pass.

An oversight on my part. Should now be fixed.

Re: Show HN: Weekend project - Gitscore

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Post by prabhatkrmathur »

beastmcbeast wrote: post #5
avolcano wrote: post #2

It's cute. How does it calculate each statistic?

The score is calculated in three parts. 1) The reputation score is a count of the number of followers you have. 2) The contribution score takes into account the number of repositories you have. It factors in the number of watchers for each repository as well as the number of forks. It then doubles that score if you are the original owner of the repository (rather than the repository being a fork itself). 3) The gist…

Cool
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