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the goal should be that my 1000 points represents roughly the same effort as anyone else's. we can't reason our way there. we will need constant adjustments, looking at the data, to get there. look at each user, and course, for points per hour. look at what they are doing, and tweak.
I realized what was up when I happened to work more than usual at chessable one day, maybe 3 or 4 hours. And I saw that if I worked for 24 hours I still wouldn't come close. I am surprised that basically everybody back then just thought I was the one who needed to change, either by forgetting about points, or forgetting about books where I need to stop, calculate, think, or read etc. Or to pick up FFT myself, which seems useful if youb want to cram, or woodpecker a course. The problem is that it let's you earn streaks you didn't really earn, combined with the high rewards for streaks rather than learning or struggle, which will be heavily penalized in this system. Is recalling a move in an opening I play after 6 months the same learning effort as trying to solve a hard tactic for the first time? because one gets what, 100 points per move in the line, while the tactic, which may have less moves, a higher rate of failure, and takes calculation (not recall) will give me what, 40 per move? I think the best way to push people to learn is to reward effort. we see clearly many people enjoy chasing points. therefore these people are best served as we get all valuable efforts on the site to get a fair amount of points, high effort getting more, low getting less, and similar effort getting similar points. FFT definitely goes against this in the present form, but maybe the points do anyways, even with no FFT, due to there being no distinction between a low effort redundant recall or obvious move, and a real struggler as in a tactics or endgame course.
"Help, I hvae awl tehse typoes in my psot taht I cna't fix becuase of teh teim liimt!!"
Maybe that's my next feature request.
I would think since this is a chess website devoted to courses and not gameplay, you'd tend to get more polite & professional behavior on chessable than by the average members on chess.com/lichess.org. That's just a guess though.
From what I've seen, the environment of competing against your peers is always going to induce some subset of users to be rude.
I can live with that, though I sometimes notice typos in my posts that I can no longer correct.
Again, none of the above reasons apply to private notes, so removing the time limit on those seems like a no-brainer.
I was thinking the other day, maybe as a compromise we could just show how many rubies people have spent on various items, next to their name in the leader boards, e.g. how many on comments, how many on streak restore, FFT, etc. so that ppls achievements are put in perspective. even if we don't change the system we can at least make it a little more clear who is doing what. we could also show study time, for instance.