The Atlas Leaderboard is almost an equivalent of the old Billboard Magazine (Now an online site) that essentially uses metrics that are primarily based upon "Units of Production" (in the Atlas case posts), where many users pad their post counts to get to "top of the charts".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)
The main difference however is that "sales" (posts) although they are technically consumed by the internal/external customers of Atlas, do not allow a "consumer voice" which either chooses to "buy" the c**p or brilliant recordings of musical artists....Additionally, the focus of the Atlas Leaderboard is based solely on quantity of units produced, and completely neglects the qualitative content that individual artists/producers of content have created...
If I was looking at this from a 5s or "Lean Mfg Factory Model", this in my mind would be considered a "bogus metric", which quite frankly pushes quantity of posts over quality of posts.
Maybe we need to introduce new metrics, where the Internal Consumers of the Product have a chance to vote on a new set of metric slides that incorporate the quality of the product produced rather than solely folks padding posting so that they too can make it to the "top of the charts"....
Personally, I like to listen to music that hasn't yet made it to the top of the charts, instead of the drivel and mass sales of the recording industry where they shove artists down our throats simply on the basis of total units of production...
Thoughts???
