I find your lists very interesting IMO (I probably have no Humble opinion), I can’t see it working because it sounds, as @codinghorror says, “incredibly complicated” without a lot more refining of the focus.
I also got confused which is why I’d like to see your suggestions more clearly presented:
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An overview of what you are proposing because there appears to be more than one suggestion. I had to read a lot before I could see what wasn’t clear.
I realize that you originally posted in the topic Improving the "Top" criteria but I would have had the same difficulty even in that context. Your lists are so comprehensive that your posts deserves to be a new discussion. -
A logical separation of your suggestions. I can see two main ideas:
- To improve the Top (most active topics) view for the forum, which was indicated in the topic title.
- To create a new “Top” view customized per user.
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Some attempt to indicate the most critical metrics because I can’t see how being able to customize more than 30 parameters will help administrators to provide a better experience for their users. An alternative might be to suggest some useful profiles for different purposes, e.g. critical thinking, news, support,or media upload. It may be that the most effective profiles use less than a dozen parameters in total.
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Some engagement with existing topics on such metrics. There’s a lot of useful info there which I’m not sure that you’ve even looked at. Here’s some examples but there’s quite a bit more if you search.
- Displaying metrics in columns to indicate “top” topics:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-views-column-be-removed/18941/6?u=remah
https://meta.discourse.org/t/further-simplifying-the-columns-quality-score-view-count/18879?u=remah - Topic likes:
What are "Likes"? - Reputation systems:
On the Necessity of Up/Down Vote-Based Reputation Systems on Boards Involving Subjective Discussion
What is the reason to not use reputation points?
My thoughts about ‘reputation’ or ‘karma’ - Plug-ins that provide something similar:
User scores / Reputation plugin
- Displaying metrics in columns to indicate “top” topics: