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Same lost like 3K bananas? What's the new policy? I heard a while back that there may be an adjustment for bananas earned in off topic. Is that what's going on WallStreetOasis.com ?
I went from 73K to 38K bananas. Gonna have to hit 69,420 bananas one more time…
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Dearest Primates, we made some additional changes to upvotes in order to continue to deemphasize lower quality content and emphasize / reward the industry related career and interview advice...more specifically:
This means that you may notice your silver banana and total points may have decreased today (mine did too), however, this shouldn't be major unless you were primarily collecting SBs in the Off topic forum. Our goal here is to get better signals on what members are providing the best career advice and not those members that are "winning" the most arguments in off topic.
We realize that this is not a perfect adjustment and that the off topic forum is a great place to connect and learn more about your fellow apes, but we hope that it will allow us to properly reward members that are providing outsized benefits that align with our mission and encourage more high quality content leading into 2023.
Thank you,
Patrick & WSO Team
this is a huge bummer. I come to this site mostly to talk about my varying interests in the off topic forum. I feel like I had hundreds of bananas from my "[enter noun here] is Paradise" posts...
But the number of SBs you have doesn't impact your ability to discuss anything in the Off Topic Forum. The idea is that contributing helpful content and advice is more valuable and closer to the core mission of the site than discussing random topics, which seems fair. To the extent you put any stock in the SB/MS system of indicating the most valuable members of the community, the change makes perfect sense. Someone who posts a dozen funny memes in Off Topic is objectively contributing less value than someone who makes a post with information regarding what the exit opportunities were for a given analyst class, or who can intelligently discuss GSE lending policies (as examples).
your ratio is still super solid and the same adjustment was applied to all accounts (including mine). Great off topic contributions are still rewarded, just less so than before.
Thanks,
Patrick
I feel like mine decreased quite significantly, despite most all of my contributions being outside of off topic
Honestly though I feel the algorithm hasn't made sense for a while -- it seemed like I'd get +5-6 bananas every advice comment, which seemed high. Maybe that was human interaction, but idk
Real question is why I never got a WSO deal toy...
Give me that f'ing banana!!!
nom nom nom
Yeah I don't understand why this is retroactive.
It shouldnt be. It should be moving forward, but those of us that have been around forever shouldn't be penalized
Exactly, agreed. Seems like most feel the same way. Patrick & Andy, pls fix thx.
From Isaiah's quote of my comment ...
"Our goal here is to get better signals on what members are providing the best career advice and not those members that are "winning" the most arguments in off topic.
We realize that this is not a perfect adjustment and that the off topic forum is a great place to connect and learn more about your fellow apes, but we hope that it will allow us to properly reward members that are providing outsized benefits that align with our mission and encourage more high quality content leading into 2023."
If it wasn't retroactive then we wouldn't be able to easily see those signals and ratios. At least not easily. Your ratio is still over 10:1 so my guess is it had minimal impact on you (as it did most members)...
Thanks
It's an idiotic response to incentivize quality content. The people who have the highest scores generally engage with many areas of the site. You should provide incentive, i.e. bonuses, to people who engaged more with areas where you want them to engage. Not penalize people who engage differently. This just cuts the knees out from the most active users who, and you might find ths shocking, create the vast majority of the content on platforms like this.
I don’t know what the hell is going on, but I think it’s dumb that MS impacts your ability to post anon in the industry forums. Quick way to have the non-college aged crowd stop posting (not that this cohort isn’t leaving in droves anyway)
your username is already anonymous. your SB:MS ratio got much worse since a lot of your SBs were earned in the Off Topic forum (likely from political debates?).
Are there plans to zero out the negative WSO Credits? Not thrilled about having over -420 just to get back to zero.
Anyone else not able to give SBs?
yeah man, I'm in the negative for some reason now. This is really terrible policy imo. Did this just happen today? I could have sworn I had way more yesterday.
Yeah it’s really odd not to be able to give SBs especially when we’ve earned them. I think it went into effect yesterday.
WSO credits back to 0 so any SBs you earn will get you more credits. Thanks
No. Thank you. Glad to see ya'll being proactive so we can make sure WSO continues on as the campfire we want to congregate around.
Sad face because off topic was the only forum I could provide any facet of value add but I get it. Maybe this is a valuable lesson that clout is a dangerous drug and we need to not care... I do stay up at night tho thinking of SB's..
Ahh shit dawg, you got demoted from partner at Blackstone to operations analyst at RBC. Condolences
rip can't give you a banana for that career time machine comment
I do have a few words to say about the new moderation, unfortunately these are neither fit to print, nor suitable for the delicate ears of aforementioned gentlepeople, so let's just leave it at that
Are you a banker in Hawaii or what? I’ve always wanted to visit Hawaii and was thinking of sending my parents for a vacation there but instead am buying myself a car
Haha no, I'm a pasty-ass Kraut, I just miss the sun and the beach, and tried to bring a bit of that onto WSO.
Is there a way to see where you were at before the adjustments or do you all just memorize your SB count?
My WSO rank was very serious to me so I always knew what my SB count was at all times and was always thinking about creative and witty posts to make in order obtain more bananas.... I need more hobbies
Was 50 bananas shy from Senior Neanderthal... guess I need to amend list of my goals for 2023
Didn't you hear CPI came in light back-to-back?
Disinflation.
So yeah your inflated number of banana gonna go down.
Wow this is one of the worst PR fiascos I have seen on WSO. This is honestly an entirely bizzare rationale. You NEVER reduce rewards if you want to rebalance results. You ALWAYS incrase rewards in the areas you want to incentize engagement in. Seriously, this is basic knowledge in social media and forum based web communities. Also, who in their right mind would implement something like this with zero advance notice to users?
You are 100% correct. My main issue with this new system is that is has been applied retroactively. It really does not make much sense. You lose most of your silver bananas but keep all of the shit.
For the most part, I only post in the off topic forum and I suspect there are many experienced people who have contributed in a similar way. IF this is true, they are going to lose a lot experienced people.
I didn't realize that, that's annoying.
Agree. I don't know a lot of users in real life (I'm comfortable getting to know people), but I feel like a lot of those users are going to migrate and then they'll be gone forever.
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showing up properly on my end
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