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***Wednesdays With Wes, The Thread: 12/12/12 Edition***

  • VooDooVolunteer said...

    I'm obviously not Wes but I think I figured out how it works. I think your "score" is essentially your percentage of up votes. For instance, if your score is a 99 and you have 100 votes, then you have been up voted 99 times and down voted 1 time. Keep in mind though that just because you dont see a DV doesn't mean you haven't been DV'ed, it just means that if you were enough people have UV'ed you to offset the DV. If I am correct in this, then you have to keep in mind that a DV seemingly carries more weight when your score is high like yours. Ex. Lets say you have 99 votes. Of those 99 1 is a DV and 98 are UVs for a score of 99. That said, lets now say you make a post that pisses off 3 people. You now have 102 votes (4 DV and 98 UV) score drops to 96 (down 3 points). That said if those three people liked your post leaving you with 102 votes ( 101 up 1 DV ) your score stays the same at 99. Did I confuse you? Hell I could be wrong too.

    I think you're right, and here's why I think it's flawed...

    If you have a post that gets 4 UV and 1 DV, what you see on the screen is "+3". In the score calc, though, that post would carry a value of 80%, because of the 1 DV. The score should calc off of the net score on any post, since that's presumably the community's ranking of what you contributed, versus the individual up and down votes.

    I think that's why when I look through my posts all I see are upvotes, but my score continues to fall over time.

    Again, it's not a big deal, but I'm a financial analyst for a living so I tend to want to understand things like this.

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  • To follow up - are you planning on writing a review of Derek Dooley's tenure at Tennessee? Specifically I would be looking for information on:

    1. How he lost the team after his first spring practice
    2. How he lost the coaches after his second year
    3. How this supposed recruiting expert underachieved so badly
    4. What was his relationship with the rest of the football administration?
    5. What was his relationship with the coaches in other sports at Tennessee?
    6. What was his relationship with the media?
    7. How did game management work?
    8. What was the backstory behind hiring Sunseri?
    9. What was Dooley and Sunseri's relationship like at the end?
    10. Who was working to undermine Dooley?
    11. How did he get this job?

    I guess I could go on but you get the drift. To me, Dooley was a disaster. How did it happen? That's what I want to know.

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  • I was a punter in high school, so I'd love to know a "hilariously awful" thing or two that he yelled at those guys.

    I've had some good ones thrown at me, too. I was the soccer convert with a big leg but no consistency, and one night after a 25 yard shanker, my coach took my helmet and said he wasn't giving it back and he was telling everyone I had a concussion. Haha.

    Coaches LOVE to abuse kickers and it's usually pretty funny.

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  • JPSke said...

    Wes:

    #1 With UT's new coaching staff we see an increased social media presence. How is this controlled by the NCAA? Do they consider contact via twitter or facebook to be like a text or a phonecall, or is it unregulated? For example if a recruit tweets at them, can they have a whole twitter conversation, or only if it initiates a phonecall, or what?

    #2 Cuonzo: what is the problem? I love the dude as a coach but these rock fights are painful.

    #3 Marquez/Pacquiao: Has there ever been a more effective advertisement for PEDs that you can remember?

    1. Honestly, that's a better question for Ryno. Those rules change from year to year, in some cases, and I don't know the answer to that.

    2. Maymon's not in there, and the guys who are supposed to hit shots are missing shots. Bad game plan for the Georgetown game, IMO, but other than that guys just aren't hitting open shots. And Jarnell Stokes isn't playing like the stud he's supposed to be. I think he'll be a lot better as the season progresses, though. They've been pushing him harder and in different ways, and I think he's starting to respond.

    3. I only like PEDs when Cubs use them and don't get caught. JMO.

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  • govols011 said...

    Can u ask s boogie why he blocked me on the twitters? I've never even tweeted him before shrug

    He reads this board. Hopefully he'll see this.

    What's your username on Twitter?

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  • Wes Rucker said...

    He reads this board. Hopefully he'll see this.

    What's your username on Twitter?

    @C_Dillard6

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  • Denver Vol said...

    How does the poster rating system work here? My score keeps dropping, but I've looked through my last week of posts and can't find one downvote, but I have numerous upvotes on a lot of posts.

    Not that big a deal, I'm just lost as to how it calculates and why it never goes up.

    I can't tell you the exact formula, but that situation sounds weird. I don't know why it would do that.

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  • Wes Rucker said...

    I can't tell you the exact formula, but that situation sounds weird. I don't know why it would do that.

    I think we solved the conundrum earlier in the thread.

    Answer: Science.

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