IndiRank Upgrade - suggestions please!

Just submitting something which i said in another forum topic.

Then again I was thinking... what if .. we could do something like this.

Let there be the indirank with whatever system it works on...

Make an IndiFlu [Influence] or IndiPower or IndiCeleb Status which will be somewhat like Technorati authority.. but except that it will depend on the no. of times his posts are voted on IndiVine. Here is a rough example. Person Z has submitted 100 posts on Indivine and has got a total of 200 votes. So his authority is (200/100). If Person X (sounds like me) submits 500 posts on Indivine and gets 50 votes in total his authority is (50/500). [Yeah that does sound like me].

Higher authority... the better.

I'm new and possibly not qualified to comment on this, but I don't think we should make the algorithm public.

ya.. i would appreciate all..

Caveat Emptor: I am less than 24 hours old on Indiblog. All comments emanating from this direction should be treated with the right balance of caution and acuity.

Having said the above, it is not that complicated, "it" being how Indirank should be calculated. Some thoughts below- There are three parties impacted by Indirank - 1. The blogger - Some folks on here seem to equate Indirank with their savings account. Even to those without self esteem issues, Indirank is a useful indicator of a blogger's "standing" in the Indiblogger community. "The better the rank, the better must be your contribution" is debatable, but for lack of other metrics, let's agree that a good ranking is generally desired by a blogger 2. The blog reader - Assuming the blogger chooses to 'advertise' her Indirank outside the confines of Indiblogger, the readers from the big, bad world out there have some way of telling that they are viewing a quality product (something that has gone through the wringer somewhere else, assuming it truly has) 3. Indiblogger -If the Indiblogger team is doing this for purely altruistic reasons, then we can leave this one out. But we all know that there is no such thing as a free lunch (or a free breakfast or chai). Hence I think we can safely assume that Indirank is the carrot that Indiblogger team would like to use to promote certain types of behavior on the community. Note: There seem to be no parties registered on Indiblogger in the category of "pure reader". One needs to register a blog to join the community. So, I think it is reasonable to assume that each Indiblogger is a blogger first and then a reader. There is a reason I bring this up - which is that - popularity of a post among fellow bloggers does not always mirror popularity among those out there (in the aforementioned big bad world) who are pure readers and love to read for the sake of reading. It is often said that writers make poor readers. Coming to the questions asked by Renie -

Apologies that this response has turned out much too longer than I expected. So I went ahead and created a full post on my blog at 

http://laughinggasblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/laughing-gas-thoughts-on-indirank-or.html

please do read it in entirety before commenting. Folks, this is not some devious attempt to get you guys to visit my blog (which you will have to, to read the rest of it). I have shared thoughts in the post, and hope this will spark some more discussion around this. cheers!

ps: if junta believes that providing a link to my blog is not on the straight and narrow, happy to take this down and post the entire 800+ word article on here.

Now that indilexa is getting popular, its rank can be added to grade system at indi.

I think ranking should be categories.. There should be over all ranking and ranking within a category as comparing rank of a tech blog with a poet's blog is no match but in case of its own category, writers and poets can compete.. Same goes for tech bloggers of blogging bloggers also 

Secondly, method should not be made public as that will kill the fun of working hard for all the factors rather than only factors we know effecting ranking 

1. Should we make our algorithm public or would that promote gaming? NOPE, No way. That spoils the mystery
2. Are there any other influential factors we can include, aside from PageRank, Alexa, Frequency, etc.? Google Pagerank
3. What information would you like to see as part of your IndiStats? Ratio of comments,geography of clicks,spam sites hogging the limelight i.e. Show sites which might be creating hits so that the blogger can do something about it
4. Should we increase the frequency of updates, or would that diminish the value of IndiRank updates? It could be changed to bi-monthly. Some blogs don't have per month activities
5. The stats are available only to those who are logged in. Would you like an export option / widget so that you can share it with your readers? Sounds great, a cute mini widget like the indirank one, not much detailed as not much readers might quite nose-dive into the info. mostly only other bloggers from blogosphere might have a look in it.

@ Rio How did you find this three year old thread? 

AV I know that one googled DP myself too that day.  But you added any other host here so I undrstood it