User ratings? Social capital? What?

[ajodasso]

I just noticed that LJ has placed this curious thing on our profile pages (probably years ago, while I wasn't paying attention to anything that far up) that calculates your journal rank and your social capital. What does that even mean? Rankings, I can wrap my head around, as it must be calculated by some amalgamation of how frequently you post

Comments

I'll just quote LJ's FAQ...

[gehayi]

Social Capital is shown for all personal journals and communities, which have opted into ratings on "Privacy" tab in Account Settings page.

Social Capital is an indicator that reflects the influence of a specific user or community on LiveJournal.

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Paid repost is a new method of promoting your entry in other journals. You can add a "Paid repost" button to your entry and every user who reposts it into his journal will get some LJ Tokens (you’ll have to set a budget for reposts). Also, Paid repost is a new way for you to earn LJ Tokens. If you click on a Paid repost button in other user’s entry, this entry will be reposted to your journal and you’ll get some LJ Tokens for this. Paid repost is based on New-style reposting

Re: I'll just quote LJ's FAQ...

[ajodasso]

How curious. It would be so much more useful if we could trade it for things like, I don't know, paid time or more icon slots or whatever. But I suppose promo slots are more useful to some people than any of those other things.

[arcadiaego]

I've tried to find out how my community can get in the rankings (I think it can't unless it has open membership because it doesn't show up now) and the FAQs are awful, so I'm not really sure what it all means!

[ajodasso]

gehayi above gave a pretty useful run-down :)