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Kudos Bug ?
This developer has joined my project recently. And he has 7 Kudo rank. It's impressive !
https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/smallfirefish
There is a similar oddity for the Apache Aries project:
https://www.ohloh.net/p/ApacheAries/contributors?page=1
Most people have kudos of 7, 6, or 4. 1 person has 8 and I have 1. Not sure how the Kudos is decided by it does seem odd that I have a kudos of 1 with 75 commits to the project, and someone who has only 2 has a kudos of 4.
Perhaps Kudos just moves in mysterious ways?
Hi Alasdair,
Everyone on this project team shows Kudos because they are receiving them from you.
When you click the I Use This
button to register yourself as a project user, then all of the project contributors receive kudos. Project contributors receive kudos in proportion to the number of commits they have made to the project source code.
However, we don't allow you to give kudos to yourself. That's why your own kudo rank is still low.
If you want to boost your own kudo rank, you will have to find some other Ohloh users and persuade them to use your project, or have them give you kudos directly.
Let me know if you have more questions,
Robin
There is still something odd about the many user accounts that have no activity whatsoever, yet are ranked higher than user accounts that actually have contributions registered.
How could an entirely passive account possibly be ranked higher than an active account? It all seems entirely arbitrary.
For example, take a look at https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/mairbek (randomly chosen) who has 15 commits, code estimated at 11 months of effort and is ranked 319980. Then look at the one immediately before that at https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/maritzburgviews ranked 319979 without any activity at all, no projects, no commits, no experience listed, no posts, no reviews, nothing.
And this is not an odd example. There are thousands, possibly ten-thousands of accounts without any activity at all and they are ranked higher than hundreds, possibly thousands of accounts that have contributions/commits/experience registered and counted. To me this looks like a bug.
All of these users are effectively tied for last place, with 0 kudos.
Ohloh does not assign kudos for creating commits, or for any other type of activity. Ohloh does not decide who gets kudos at all; users do.
Kudos only come from other users. Unless another Ohloh member says that they use your project, or gives you kudos directly, you will not receive any kudos.
If you make 1,000 commits to a project, but no one uses that project, then you will not receive any kudos for that work.
the problem is that Ohloh only looks at it's own stats by selecting users having added something to their stack for deciding who 'uses' a project. Many projects have hundreds if not thousands of users in the outside world and this of course gets not counted at all in the kudo rank. So yes, it's flawed.
Yes, I agree it has flaws. We've never claimed that KudoRank is perfect. I'm just trying to explain some of its commonly-misunderstood behaviors.
It's true that if your project has users that Ohloh doesn't know about, then you won't get credit
for those users. But all the projects and developers on Ohloh are in this same boat; I don't think this property unfairly biases the rankings, except to the extent that our website traffic itself is biased.