I was considering [1] already. I was also considering what happens when one is near the beginning of sign up. People that log on later will not be noticed by the earlier people - who were there for all the voting - selecting. For instance: As I logged on later than most, most have not reviewed me. Out of the 26 people on the list, I was the last to sign up so even though I have a rating, no more than one or two people have been able to select their choices for me in the last 1/2 hour. How can the ratings of people that show up later possibly be as viable as those that signed up early and have 26 people voting on them? The only way would be for those that sign up in the beginning to continuously check for new names to rate.

Being first to sign up means that most likely you are common here and catch the mail frequently. Then because you were early you have many people rating you, instead of just a few that see your name later and go in for the purpose of rating you. I assume that you think this is not an issue because you assume that people will continually check in for those people they have missed due to signing up later. I'm not confident of that myself.

This would be solved if everyone signed up together, then a closing date was announced to start the ratings . This would force everyone to rate just about everyone. Later entries would still be an issue, but your first large batch would be a good sampling and since people can go in and change the ratings later, the late additions will over time catch up.

David McFadzean wrote:

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "BillRoh" <hidden@lucifer.com>
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 3:42 PM

It seems that when you enter the system, there is an obvious advantage to being the first people to sign up. Did you plan an

setting it up so that all the names come up for opinion that are on the registered list? If not, as the list builds names, can one
simply go back and add their opinions on those?

There is no advantage to joining earlier rather than later[1]. The reputations are calculated
from scratch every time the ratings are updated. Anyone can change their ratings at any time.

David

[1] Unless you consider that those who have not joined yet have a zero reputation,
and zero influence and equity, at least until they do join.

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