m14t/sots — Issue #29: Figure out a point normalization strategy (if any)
Author: aaronhall
Created: 2011-10-25 07:22:44+00:00
State: open
Labels: Design Decision

This one gets complicated, but the ultimate goal is to have the most number of users completing actions most frequently for the longest amount of time before some future date and before they hit 20k points (or whatever that number ends up being). I'm not sure we can define a good formula in concrete terms until we have some usage data (or at least it would be much easier with some usage data), assuming we aren't going to try "normalizing" those values per user based on that user's activity (how often/how quickly they complete actions) and get everyone to the summit at the same time.

We'll have to have a conversation about this at some point, but it's probably not critical to have this figured out before Friday as long as we have some reasonable average point value assigned to actions -- just make an assumption about how frequently the average user will complete actions for now. We'll have user activity data recorded in the database if we need it later to figure out a better solution.