Monday, January 17, 2011 3:03:07 AM
Attn: Big Honor & Recognition for the $heff $tation courtesy of Seeking Alpha
$heff $tation is the only author listed in the top 5 for both Biotech & Healthcare. #3 in healthcare & #5 in biotech.
2.Leaderboards and reputation system
http://seekingalpha.com/leader-board/opinion-leaders
From Seeking Alpha on January 15th, 2011
We've introduced a new reputation system and set of leaderboards, called "SA Opinion Leaders". You're now ranked by page views (trailing 90 days) to your articles according to the themes you write about. For example, if some of your articles are tagged "Software", you automatically appear in the Software Sector leaderboard and are ranked by the number of page views you receive to those articles. You can appear in multiple leaderboards, determined by the themes your articles are tagged with. Additionally, if you're ranked in the top 5 for any theme, that information is displayed on your articles and also on your profile page.
We think this new reputation system has strong advantages. First, we've discovered that the number of followers a person has on Seeking Alpha (and, parenthetically, Twitter also,) doesn't necessarily equate to reader engagement or influence. In contrast, the number of people who read your articles is a direct measure of reader engagement and thus your influence. Second, reputation is far more meaningful when measured in specific areas of expertise. So if you focus on media stocks, it's far more valuable to know (and tell people) that you're the number one on Seeking Alpha in the Media Sector than that you're number 33 in some general ranking. We think that measuring real engagement and ranking contributors in categories will be valuable for contributors and -- critically -- valuable for readers.
Future
Any major change carries risk, so why are we doing this? After all, churn in our contributor base is remarkably low, we're about to add our 4,000th contributor, traffic is at an all time high, we recently crossed our 600,000th registered user, we have over 40,000 comments on the site per month, and our audience is of outstandingly high quality.
$heff $tation is the only author listed in the top 5 for both Biotech & Healthcare. #3 in healthcare & #5 in biotech.
2.Leaderboards and reputation system
http://seekingalpha.com/leader-board/opinion-leaders
From Seeking Alpha on January 15th, 2011
We've introduced a new reputation system and set of leaderboards, called "SA Opinion Leaders". You're now ranked by page views (trailing 90 days) to your articles according to the themes you write about. For example, if some of your articles are tagged "Software", you automatically appear in the Software Sector leaderboard and are ranked by the number of page views you receive to those articles. You can appear in multiple leaderboards, determined by the themes your articles are tagged with. Additionally, if you're ranked in the top 5 for any theme, that information is displayed on your articles and also on your profile page.
We think this new reputation system has strong advantages. First, we've discovered that the number of followers a person has on Seeking Alpha (and, parenthetically, Twitter also,) doesn't necessarily equate to reader engagement or influence. In contrast, the number of people who read your articles is a direct measure of reader engagement and thus your influence. Second, reputation is far more meaningful when measured in specific areas of expertise. So if you focus on media stocks, it's far more valuable to know (and tell people) that you're the number one on Seeking Alpha in the Media Sector than that you're number 33 in some general ranking. We think that measuring real engagement and ranking contributors in categories will be valuable for contributors and -- critically -- valuable for readers.
Future
Any major change carries risk, so why are we doing this? After all, churn in our contributor base is remarkably low, we're about to add our 4,000th contributor, traffic is at an all time high, we recently crossed our 600,000th registered user, we have over 40,000 comments on the site per month, and our audience is of outstandingly high quality.
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