OT: How to calculate reputation scores?

[Mike]

A general question, not PERL releated:

Many web sites have an article/message/user reputation based on the up or
down votes the article/message/user receives. How is a reputation score
calculated given only up and down votes? (The user is not presented with
a 1 to 5 scale for scoring something.)

Mike

 

[Mike]

Generally it is just a net score. The score is just incremented and
decremented
as each positive/negative vote is submitted. Some sites such as
www.perlmonks.org (let's try to get this back On Topic! ) use a
more elaborate algorithm though.
http://www.perlmonks.net/?node=Voting/Experience System explains
how perlmonks "Experience Points" are calculated.
So, there really is no one way and you may want to build something sort
of fun like perlmonks XP to help build a certain "community".

Thank you. I had looked at Perl Monks and not found this article.

Mike