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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: ItalianMafiaBrussels on February 24, 2013, 11:38 pm
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It's confusing, how do you rank up higher?
I am confused because i see one vendor having this:
has been a member for 1 year
was last seen: today
ranked in the top 6% of sellers with 99% positive feedback from more than 300 transactions
and another vendor
has been a member for 7 months
was last seen: today
ranked in the top 1% of sellers with 97.4% positive feedback from more than 300 transactions
has 1182 fans - become a fan
The first vendor has more than 300 transactions too, but has higher positive feedback, yet he's ranked lower than the second vendor.
:)
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For reals man. Good question.
eddiethegun
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has been a member for 4 months
was last seen: today
ranked in the top 33% of sellers with 100% positive feedback from more than 300 transactions
has 97 fans
wtf?
It's one of DPR's wonky secret algorithms.
I was in the top 97% until I did an online lotto game for like 2 weeks and that brought me down to like 20th percentile, even though I got 100% 5/5 feedback. Who knows...
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It's also the pricing of the products..
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It's also the pricing of the products..
The pricing of the products. huh :o
I'm thinking now it's mainly the feedback % / transaction ratio.
The maximum visible transactions are 300 ? ... vendor A that has "300+ transactions" may have 310 actual transactions while vendor B that also has "300+ transactions" may have 2000 actual transactions..
If anyone knows how to really rank up, please let me know :D
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Sorry I meant how much money has been through your account, not the prices.
It's a combination of all of though
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It's also the pricing of the products..
Agreed. It seems to heavily weight the average transaction amount.
(The only reasonable explanation for how doing hundreds of small $ value 5/5 transactions actually DECREASES your rating. Unless the categories themselves are weighted, but that seems less plausible)
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not disimilar to other online market ranking systems
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It depends on your ratings and your transaction volume, I presume.
SR applies algorithms towards the ratings that give the most recent ratings more weight in the calculation.
But eddietheguns slide cannot be explained this way as he has 5/ratings only.
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Just one bad transaction can seriously drop someone's %. It's like that on most sites like eBay or amazon. I wouldn't just go by the %. Look at the feedback and also do a search on the forums.
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It's one of DPR's wonky secret algorithms.
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/wiki/index.php?title=Feedback_Score
I was in the top 97% until I did an online lotto game for like 2 weeks and that brought me down to like 20th percentile, even though I got 100% 5/5 feedback. Who knows...
Maybe I'm misreading what you're saying, but being in the top 20% is way better than being in the top 97%...
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It's one of DPR's wonky secret algorithms.
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/wiki/index.php?title=Feedback_Score
I was in the top 97% until I did an online lotto game for like 2 weeks and that brought me down to like 20th percentile, even though I got 100% 5/5 feedback. Who knows...
Maybe I'm misreading what you're saying, but being in the top 20% is way better than being in the top 97%...
You're reading correctly, I mangled that statement. Was supposed to say a slide from top 7 (or 10 or so) percent to to 33 percent.
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Just thought I'd point out that there's another explanation for Eddie's observations: his competition moved up in rank much faster during the period in question. I think it's very unlikely, but nobody seems to have mentioned it, and it is possible... so there it is.
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Wait, when they say top xx%, what does that mean? Is the highest grossing vendor the top 1% or the top 99%? The worst vendor is 1% or 99%? I'm confused
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I think they should just scrap the percentage system and put in a system of grams to explain a vendors weight.
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Wait, when they say top xx%, what does that mean? Is the highest grossing vendor the top 1% or the top 99%? The worst vendor is 1% or 99%? I'm confused
It's not a measure of highest gross, but top 1% is better than top 10%.