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I've known for quite a while that the ratings a user gets during a day do not affect their average rating right away, but it does change sometime overnight (in the eastern time zone). This has both positives and negatives to it, the main positive being that ratings can be reviewed by an admin before they are tallied, but the main negative being (as shown yesterday with rianaowns) that someone can continue to post crap all over the forums until manually NOPOSTed by an admin. So, I'm wondering if there's an exact time the ratings are tallied and why it is done this way (if not for the main positive reason mentioned above).
I've seen my rating change in the middleof the day est quite often.
It changes the very next time you post.
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I'm not so sure Kaolian, because I can access my post history, and for example as of right now I may become a Sage at some point overnight because a post I made today has been rated up. However, if someone rates a post that I made yesterday or before, then I think it does take effect immediately (or as of my next post). The other possibility is that there is a time delay after a post is made before any ratings to it affect the user's average rating. So here's how I think it works:
User with 3.00 makes first post, someone rates it up shortly thereafter (any amount will affect the average rating), average rating does not change until sometime overnight (or a certain amount of time has passed). User becomes a Scholar, but then someone rates the first/only post down, and the user loses Scholar immediately (or as of next post).
Perhaps you could investigate this phenomenon further, because by your post this may not be how the system should be, and also by me making this post I may be in fact lowering the effect of the eventual increase to my rating.
User with 3.00 makes first post, someone rates it up shortly thereafter (any amount will affect the average rating), average rating does not change until sometime overnight (or a certain amount of time has passed). User becomes a Scholar, but then someone rates the first/only post down, and the user loses Scholar immediately (or as of next post).
Perhaps you could investigate this phenomenon further, because by your post this may not be how the system should be, and also by me making this post I may be in fact lowering the effect of the eventual increase to my rating.
you need a certain # of posts before your karma can fluctuate at all (15?.)
besides that, ratings take effect immediately.
besides that, ratings take effect immediately.
actually we're going to rework when karma is tallied, because there's so many posts and users above 15 posts now that it's hurting the DB to run the recalc script for everyone at once.
Do what now?
A week or two ago, I created a sockpuppet account with the ill-concieved idea that I'd get it to Scholar status and then use it to rate myself down to oblivion (or at least to "user").
Apart from the fact that I soon came to my senses and realized how totally stupid an idea that was, and subsequently had the account NOPOSTed,
I noticed that while I was postfarming it to 15+ and rating it up, it did not actually become a Scholar until the next day; even though, technically, by the time I stopped on the first day, it would have had an average rating of well over 3.01 due to all the rate-ups I gave it.
I'm just observing that the change did not appear to be reflected in realtime.
Apart from the fact that I soon came to my senses and realized how totally stupid an idea that was, and subsequently had the account NOPOSTed,
I noticed that while I was postfarming it to 15+ and rating it up, it did not actually become a Scholar until the next day; even though, technically, by the time I stopped on the first day, it would have had an average rating of well over 3.01 due to all the rate-ups I gave it.
I'm just observing that the change did not appear to be reflected in realtime.
Looks like it's happened in the last hour (between 6:30 and 7:30am EDT), because my name is now red. :)
I too have noticed this phenominon as I have had postes rated up but the tally adjustment wasn't till much later.
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