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What do you mean subtracting the laughs?
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The open heart on the left seems to be calculated using some random formula that, despite spending far too much time on this app (see attached), I haven’t been able to figure out.
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The open heart is how many people in your industry (consulting) reacted to your posts/comments. Everything else is just the overall number from all industries.
If you click the open heart icon it will tell you how it’s calculated. It’s the positive recognition you’ve received from others in your industry.
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The calculation behind heart value has changed at least 3 times since I joined this app 6 years ago. It used to be a simple measure of your cumulative likes. Then it shifted at least once when they added in the multiple reaction types. And it shifted again more recently. But they always kept your likes score intact when they made the shift so all of us “old timers” had our scores grandfathered in.
That’s how you have some people like me with astronomical scores that probably aren’t even possible to obtain anymore unless you were around before the more recent changes.
Compare my score to McK1’s. There’s no reason my overall score should be 4x theirs when the other numbers aren’t 4x.
Long story short, no one knows how the current score is calculated. They don’t advertise it, and it doesn’t seem to mean anything
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I know that they vaguely mention “people in your industry”. They don’t define what that means. I think it’s highly unlikely that FB, which can barely keep this app from lagging out, is investing money into mapping out EY’s corporate structure so that they know to put tax people in the tax bucket, risk people in the risk bucket, consultants in the consulting bucket, just to toss you back into the consulting bowl. I’m even more confident of this when you look at how a lot of our firms map the Risk Assurance teams; some bucketing with audit, others with consulting. And then you have PwC, where the job titles are virtually identical across service lines. Absent an explanation from FB as to what they mean by “in your industry”, I’m going to assume that this app, which spans tons of industries, probably doesn’t care if you are in audit or consulting; only that you work for EY
I’ve simply been here long enough to actually see the score calculations change multiple times. I know that each time they changed the calculation, our scores remained constant, which means that the score itself means little because it was much easier for me to run up to 20k (2.5 years) points than it was the more recent 8k (4).
We are talking past each other, so I don’t think there’s much else for me to say. Have a good day.
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