Another vote against this being a wise metric, here. Anecdotally, while writing my last post when (I thought) the prize was still running, I felt both a) incentivised to ensure the quality was as high as I could make it and b) less likely to actually post as a consequence (writing higher quality takes longer).
And that matches what I’d like to see on the forum—better signal to noise ratio, which can be achieved both by increasing the average quality of posts and by decreasing the number of marginal posts.
Another vote against this being a wise metric, here. Anecdotally, while writing my last post when (I thought) the prize was still running, I felt both a) incentivised to ensure the quality was as high as I could make it and b) less likely to actually post as a consequence (writing higher quality takes longer).
And that matches what I’d like to see on the forum—better signal to noise ratio, which can be achieved both by increasing the average quality of posts and by decreasing the number of marginal posts.