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Impact and connection metrics #6

Closed theriex closed 8 years ago

theriex commented 11 years ago

Impact metrics are a big deal. You want to know how many times someone has remembered your review because it makes it more worth it to write one. Ditto for when someone creates a corresponding review. You might even want to know how many times your review has been looked at. These are all measures of how much impact you have and the numbers can make you feel good. But the numbers can also make you feel lousy, and they can be gamed.

While having written a popular review is awesome, that's not the only reason for writing a review. You also write reviews to track your own experiences (both recent and top 20). And the primary reason for writing a review on MyOpenReviews is to encourage shared experiences among friends.

Relating this to metrics, remembering a review is like an intention to share an experience. Writing a corresponding review notes the experience has been shared. Within shared experiences, there is a measure of shared perception: if it was 5 stars for you and 2 stars for your friend, then you experienced it differently. That's still good conversation, but it has to be considered in metrics.

Good metrics could help enable connections that produce the kind of energy you find in a great book club, shared listening session, exceptional group outing etc. That would be awesome. Bad metrics can be significantly worse than no metrics at all.

Thoughts welcome.

theriex commented 8 years ago

A lot has changed since this issue was opened, but there are metrics now, and there are even supporting visualization charts, so closing this out.