It’s a mysterious to figure out how the influence score increases and decreases
I have seen numbers of posts / questions / answers / connecting with people all these may impact the increase or may not then how about if you want to take a break, a vacation for few days what will happen if you stay away from login and participating. How many point per day you lose?
Someone may ask why would you care, It doesn’t matter if it increases or decreases, I guess it is more psychological for the efforts we put in.
Is the number of generating more traffic impact the influence score?
If you know the algorithm please share it. Saving Changes...
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten AssociatesNew Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
May 08, 2018 8:34 PM
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Rami, thanks for your input so by saying the system do you refer to a machine doing calculation and monitoring or human being.
I mean the algorythim system itself. Saving Changes...
John DuncanRetired| RetiredLebanon, Tn, United States
May 08, 2018 8:33 PM
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Dinah, you are right but why we get penalized when we miss one day aren't PM human being aren't we suppose to work 40 hours a week, on your real working week you two days off why can't we take two days off here.
You just landed on a great example of "you get what you measure". :-)
lf everyone on here was trying to get (and maintain) a score, after a while nobody would ever take a break, in fear of someone getting ahead of them.... I'm pretty sure that isn't the intention, to have people slaving away, contributing every day, never taking a break, just for the sake of maintaining a score.
Fortunately, your "competitors" also take a break every now and then, so it balances out where you can take a break too, and everybody is still on an even playing field. :-)
The goal for me is simply to contribute where I feel I have something to add. The score is just an interesting side effect. Saving Changes...
Dinah YoungProject Manager / Software Asset Manager| Prince William CountySpringfield, Va, United States
May 07, 2018 9:14 AM
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I have noticed a few things. - If you present a webinar you influence score shoots up. - If you submit an article it also strongly affects your score. - If you respond in the discussion area you score will slowly increase. It also seems to increase a little faster the higher you go. - Your number of contacts has very little influence on your score after a certain point - Your badges does not seem to have much of an influence. - If you do not maintain your activity your score will begin to decrease. - The commenting on discussions decreases the most if you stop commenting - The webinars and articles will also decrease if you add nothing new, but this seems to take a long time.
Oh. I think when you make it onto a Headliners list it bumps up as well. I just got an extra point and was not doing anything special. But I also just made it to Headliners under Most Discussion Postings
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1 reply by John Duncan
May 10, 2018 4:18 PM
John Duncan
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It may be that whatever activity pushed you onto the headliners list (or up one line on a headliners list) is the same activity that pushed up your score a notch...
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Tim PodestaDirector of PM/PMO| Former BP- now IndependentPenn, Bucks, United Kingdom
After a while there appears to be a plateau so there must be some step change points.
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1 reply by John Duncan
May 10, 2018 4:17 PM
John Duncan
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This would be in-line with the description of the Influence rating, that states the further up you move, the harder it is to move up.
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Anish AbrahamPrivacy Program Manager| University of WashingtonAuburn, Wa, United States
May 07, 2018 9:14 AM
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I have noticed a few things. - If you present a webinar you influence score shoots up. - If you submit an article it also strongly affects your score. - If you respond in the discussion area you score will slowly increase. It also seems to increase a little faster the higher you go. - Your number of contacts has very little influence on your score after a certain point - Your badges does not seem to have much of an influence. - If you do not maintain your activity your score will begin to decrease. - The commenting on discussions decreases the most if you stop commenting - The webinars and articles will also decrease if you add nothing new, but this seems to take a long time.
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John DuncanRetired| RetiredLebanon, Tn, United States
May 10, 2018 3:33 PM
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After a while there appears to be a plateau so there must be some step change points.
This would be in-line with the description of the Influence rating, that states the further up you move, the harder it is to move up. Saving Changes...
John DuncanRetired| RetiredLebanon, Tn, United States
May 10, 2018 2:14 PM
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Oh. I think when you make it onto a Headliners list it bumps up as well. I just got an extra point and was not doing anything special. But I also just made it to Headliners under Most Discussion Postings
It may be that whatever activity pushed you onto the headliners list (or up one line on a headliners list) is the same activity that pushed up your score a notch...
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1 reply by Dinah Young
May 10, 2018 4:30 PM
Dinah Young
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I had actually plateaued at 63 for awhile. Then this morning I was at 64.
I just submitted a template that will be posted later this month. I am interested to see how that affects my score.
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Dinah YoungProject Manager / Software Asset Manager| Prince William CountySpringfield, Va, United States
May 10, 2018 4:18 PM
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It may be that whatever activity pushed you onto the headliners list (or up one line on a headliners list) is the same activity that pushed up your score a notch...
I had actually plateaued at 63 for awhile. Then this morning I was at 64.
I just submitted a template that will be posted later this month. I am interested to see how that affects my score.
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1 reply by Riyadh Salih
May 11, 2018 1:01 AM
Riyadh Salih
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Dinah, good point to watch and see the effects on the overall result, good luck
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John DuncanRetired| RetiredLebanon, Tn, United States
I toggle back and forth between 56 and 57 the last few weeks. If I go a several days without posting anything, it drops to 56. After a few posts it returns to 57. I must be right on the border. Sometimes it changes on it's own during the day. (which falls in-line with the site description of influence, that it is affected by what others are doing too, so if someone else is "slacking off" or "stepping up" it can likely swing my score a bit too)
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1 reply by Dinah Young
May 10, 2018 4:59 PM
Dinah Young
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I did that when I was at 50, 51, 52. Then I popped up to 53 and kept going up. I have stayed pretty steady even when I do not post for a day or 2.
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Dinah YoungProject Manager / Software Asset Manager| Prince William CountySpringfield, Va, United States
May 10, 2018 4:56 PM
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I toggle back and forth between 56 and 57 the last few weeks. If I go a several days without posting anything, it drops to 56. After a few posts it returns to 57. I must be right on the border. Sometimes it changes on it's own during the day. (which falls in-line with the site description of influence, that it is affected by what others are doing too, so if someone else is "slacking off" or "stepping up" it can likely swing my score a bit too)
I did that when I was at 50, 51, 52. Then I popped up to 53 and kept going up. I have stayed pretty steady even when I do not post for a day or 2.
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2 replies by John Duncan and Vincent Guerard
May 10, 2018 5:09 PM
John Duncan
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Looks like you have about 5x the number of questions and answers that I do. So that "heft" may help stabilize your score. :-)
I don't know if message traffic is another factor. I have 265 messages in my inbox and 173 outgoing responses, as another reference point.
p.s. my oldest message is from Dave Garrett, back in Sep 2007, welcoming me to GanttFace and encouraging me to create a profile. :-)
May 10, 2018 10:20 PM
Vincent Guerard
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I believe it is a bit like a rolling average.
I remember also something about a maximum activity, no number specified. Meaning over a number of posting it is not accounted for the calculation, same goes for other activity for what I remember.
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