Community Manager
Community ManagerHi adam deltinger,
Thank you for the feedback. The old Top Contributors component used to be a series of profile pictures but with no context as to why they were classed as top contributors and it only showed you the top contributors across the whole community.
In the last version of the community we released a Top Contributors leaderboard, based on like received, which showed you the three most common activities our top contributors participate in, i.e. Posts, Likes Received and finally solutions authored.
In this version of the community we changed to scope it per board, so you see the top contributors for the space you are currently viewing. This is still generated by 'Likes Received'. I hear you say 'ah but some people with less likes received are ranked above users with more likes received'. You are right some are, this is due to the weight of the likes received.
So if some users get a post liked by an MVP or a Microsoft Employee then that like is worth more than just the one like users give to one another.
We still have some improvements planned and I have not yet decided if I want to scrap the 'weighted' likes measure and simply compare likes for likes. We are however going to add the ability to change the time window that you are looking at, i.e. to look at Today, this week, this year etc. We are also going to let you choose between All Users and MVPs so you can easily see who the top contributors are and get a feel for the engagement from your peers.
Again always happy to receive some feedback on what you would like to see, or if you have ideas on how it could be fairer, please log it in the ideas board.