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Benchmark for establishing total points for a manual

I wanted to try to establish an equivalency mark for how many maximum points a manual should be able to receive. So in the last four days I noted how many hours it takes me to hit the Ace of Answers or 200 points a day. I've done that the last four days and it took me 64 hours. So if a manual takes a week to write, at 40 hours a week, the lifetime cap should be about 500 points. If you think getting this badge is easy, look at the facts it's been given 31 times, 15 are mine, 7 were markus's, that leaves 9 for everyone else. So awarding up to 200 points a day on manuals is way out of line.

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Yeah, Ben's going to take the lead soon. If you want to stay at the top just do what Ben is doing and write manuals. That should not be hard for you since you're Number One right now so you must be able to write manuals don't you ?

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Sure I can write some of the manuals, I ordered the kit for doing so yesterday, but how many hits is a Blue & White G3 350 going to get?. Then Ben can answer questions ;-) I'm not opposed to giving points to the writers of manuals. It's the ratings given for doing so. I don't get points for an answer I gave last month. A good answer is normally going to get 2 or 3 upticks. A great answer maybe 5+, which has only been given 79 times total. But if I give an answer that gets an uptick with a link to a manual that's 45 points for the writer and 12 for me. Sure the accepted answer gets 30 points, but I'll bet only one in 10 answers do they bother to accept. Accepted answers are very rare. Lets see if we can find a just point value that we can all agree on for the writers of the manuals. And when the manual should go to legacy.

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We will definitely add a per-guide cap for each user. This is a good debate, and I'd love to hear other ideas on how the cap should be implemented. You're slightly wrong on how you get reputation for writing manuals: the reputation comes from people clicking 'I did it' at the end of a manual. There's only a small amount of reputation awarded when an answer linking to a guide is upvoted— much less than 45 points.

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"I don't get points for an answer I gave last month. A good answer is normally going to get 2 or 3 upticks." A good repair guide is worth much more to the community than a good answer, even though both are important, so we give out way more reputation for repair guides.

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Sterling, you missed everything I was talking about here.

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I think the 500 reputation per guide per user cap is a good idea. It's actually quite hard to implement, so it can't happen soon, but if the community agrees, I'd like to put it on the queue of things to do.

I ran some numbers, and there are only four guides where a single person has been awarded more than 500 points thus far. The most points awarded from any guide is Ben with 750 points for the popular MacBook Core 2 Duo LCD Panel guide.

If this proposed limit were enforced retroactively, it would cost Ben 330 points and Walter 22 points (as of right now).

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I realize this issue is not easily solved. But the new ratings for manuals and guides were not discussed, to my knowledge, before they were implemented. The top 3 iFixit employees were up another 847 today vs 232 for the top five answer contributors. The day before it was 1030 to 373. My score was reduced by 54 from the 118 shown as earned, and I had no negative votes. The net result of the changes that have made resulted in Walter going up 386 today, and ALL the answer contributors combined were about 150 short of that. As good as Walter may be, and I know he's done a lot of work, I don't feel one mans past efforts outweigh all the rest of the active answer contributors combined. The day before it was Ben up 441 to the combined 373. Putting a moratorium on these 3 to 1 out of line upticks till we have a consensus would not be out of line.

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