{"id":301,"date":"2008-03-09T13:46:44","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T12:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2008\/03\/09\/flaky-kudo-ranks-on-ohloh\/"},"modified":"2008-03-09T13:46:44","modified_gmt":"2008-03-09T12:46:44","slug":"flaky-kudo-ranks-on-ohloh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2008\/03\/09\/flaky-kudo-ranks-on-ohloh\/","title":{"rendered":"Flaky kudo ranks on ohloh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While most people I&#8217;ve talked to agree with my that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohloh.net\/\">ohloh.net<\/a>&#8216;s kudo rankings seem more or less random, I didn&#8217;t post about this on their site until today when I found such a blatant example of weirdness that I couldn&#8217;t resist. One user with 173 commits in a single project and with only a &#8220;mere&#8221; level-1 kudo received outranks another user with 6800+ commits in 10+ projects who has received 23 kudos (including 3 from level-10 people)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If this rakning is not due to a bug in the algo, I would say that the algo is bad since this just doesn&#8217;t look right.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the whole idea of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohloh.net\/people\">kudo-ranking<\/a>&#8221; people is somewhat of a tricky idea to start with, but now that it&#8217;s here I think it is worth to make it as good as possible. And by good in this context, I mean that (average) human beings that compare two people should end up placing them individually in the same order as the algorithm does &#8211; taken all things into account.<\/p>\n<p>My post in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohloh.net\/forums\">ohloh forum<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohloh.net\/topics\/1415\">Something is wrong in kudo ranking land <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While most people I&#8217;ve talked to agree with my that the ohloh.net&#8216;s kudo rankings seem more or less random, I didn&#8217;t post about this on their site until today when I found such a blatant example of weirdness that I couldn&#8217;t resist. One user with 173 commits in a single project and with only a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2008\/03\/09\/flaky-kudo-ranks-on-ohloh\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flaky kudo ranks on ohloh<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[91,92],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-floss","tag-kudos","tag-ohloh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}