http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/41378-Maple-Ranking en-us 2026 Maplesoft, A Division of Waterloo Maple Inc. Maplesoft Document System Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:15:37 GMT Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:15:37 GMT The latest comments added to the Post, Maple ranking http://www.mapleprimes.com/images/mapleprimeswhite.jpg http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/41378-Maple-Ranking http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/41378-Maple-Ranking?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Maple ranking:Comments#comment77065 Recently, getting on to the front page has gotten just a little harder. Both <a href="http://www.mapleprimes.com/user/karel-srot">Karel Srot</a> and <a href="http://www.mapleprimes.com/user/nitroxxx">Nitroxxx</a> have 45 points, which is a fairly high bar. Others, like <a href="http://www.mapleprimes.com/user/thomas-muench">TomM</a> and <a href="http://www.mapleprimes.com/user/this-tim-yahoo-com">Tim Van Dusen</a> were also in the low 40s until recently, but have move up. By doing so, they displaced others (like <a href="http://www.mapleprimes.com/user/jakubi">jakubi</a> and <a href="http://www.mapleprimes.com/user/jan">jan</a>) who were on the front page rather recently. Unfortunately, we have not seen quite so much action in the leafs. <a href="http://www.mapleprimes.com/user/israel-math-ubc-ca">Robert Israel</a> recently got his bronze leaf -- he's moving up, I predict we'll see him on the front page shortly. It would be nice to see a few more people with gold leafs. Shall we open the bidding as to when we think that a silver leaf will be necessary to get to the front of the rankings? Note that this is tricky, because only the people with less than a silver leaf can have an effect on that! The latest comments added to the Post, Maple ranking 77065 Tue, 15 May 2007 06:14:13 Z JacquesC JacquesC http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/41378-Maple-Ranking?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Maple ranking:Comments#comment77064 With a view that what people write is important, I miss the feature that showed the number of times a blog entry has been viewed. For a large part of the first year of this site, when it was "beta", each blog entry had such a number displayed at the bottom, alongside its other action links. acer The latest comments added to the Post, Maple ranking 77064 Tue, 15 May 2007 07:30:37 Z acer acer http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/41378-Maple-Ranking?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Maple ranking:Comments#comment85546 I didn't even notice that that feature is gone. I don't know where it went. I certainly see the value in having the number of views available and will look into bringing it back. <p>____<br/> William Spaetzel<br/> MaplePrimes Administrator Software Developer, Maplesoft</p> The latest comments added to the Post, Maple ranking 85546 Tue, 15 May 2007 17:09:08 Z Will Will http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/41378-Maple-Ranking?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Maple ranking:Comments#comment91421 Yes, I too miss that rating. The disappearance of the "Most Viewed" sidebar is probably reasonable since once an entry got on there, it tended to stay, due to the extra hits it generated. But it is nice to be able to see how many times a particular page is accessed. The latest comments added to the Post, Maple ranking 91421 Tue, 15 May 2007 18:06:27 Z Joe Riel Joe Riel http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/41378-Maple-Ranking?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Maple ranking:Comments#comment85538 I don't mind being displaced from the front page. If I really wanted to get back to the front page, I would write a couple of books (at 5 points each) and that would be enough to get me back to the front. This really raises an interesting point about the ranking. Why is a book worth 5 times more than a regular post. I could search wikipedia for some random place that is related to math and write it up as a book. Is this worth 5 times more than answering someone's question? A better approach, that would actually reflect the value added, would be to weight each submission by the number of times it has been read. So the total points that a user had would be calculated as a sum of all the views of their post. Jan The latest comments added to the Post, Maple ranking 85538 Thu, 17 May 2007 17:38:53 Z jan jan http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/41378-Maple-Ranking?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Maple ranking:Comments#comment91422 All the points schemes that I have seen have flaws of one kind or another. Mostly they reflect they author's biases. In this case I'd say that those who designed this were hoping that the "collaborative books" would take off, and thus gave it more weight. Similarly, starting new threads in a blog was regarded highly. And, as far as building a community is concerned, I can understand that. The latest comments added to the Post, Maple ranking 91422 Thu, 17 May 2007 17:56:31 Z JacquesC JacquesC