Curious About User Attitude Ratings: How Are They Really Determined Here?

Sid, Hi! I am just curious about the method you are using to arrive at the User Attitude Rating that this site attaches near the member's profile on the left side of the page of every post. Attitude is a big subjective word. User attitude brings a certain color to the terminology. It appears to me that there will be a lot of subjectivity involved in the process of scoring unless a formula is used, or you know the member personally. What do you use to gauge or rate the members of this site?

Best wishes, Ed Llarena, Jr. Managing Partner Emilla Consulting

Hi Ed,

The user attitude rating on the profile follows a simple formula. It allows each member to rate any other member on a scale of 1-10 once, with 1 meaning bad and 10 meaning good. The script then averages all the votes and displays the overall attitude rating.

Purpose of the Attitude Rating

The attitude rating was introduced to distinguish people who have helped many members of the community, thus gathering better rating votes from them. Since the community is primarily formed to help members in need of assistance from their peers and seniors, the attitude rating is a good way to distinguish those who have taken their time out or gone out of their way to help others in need. The more a member helps, the higher the chances of receiving better ratings. The system applies to all.

If you have a better formula or calculation method in mind that you believe can more accurately scale such ratings, please forward it to me. I would love to review it and implement it on the site. We aim to provide the best for our members.

Thanks for your continued contribution and help to the community.

Best regards,
Sid
CiteHR Admin