This New Ranking System Rocks!

I know this will be slightly controversial, but I for one am extremely pleased about this new improved ranking algorithm. It makes perfect sense!

It's funny how when I first came to WA that I, as probably many of you did, start following people in the top 100. Hey, a ranking is a ranking! It didn't take too long for me to realise that the ranking was based purely on the amount of blogs and followers that people had...and NOT on the expertise of the internet marketing industry. Two sentences of useless drivel does not a good blog make!

I'm not saying all the ambassadors in the previous ranking system were useless, but I had a great deal of ambassadors drop by my posts and say very generic things like "thanks for sharing". Not particularly helpful if you ask me...

Now that I look through the top 100 (even the top 200), I can see that the people that are ranked there really do deserve it because I've known each and every one of them to be helpful - the true role in my opinion of what an ambassador should be.

Something else that I find quite funny about it is that if we were all out in the real world and someone put a number on us based on how helpful we are to the community, we would probably laugh out loud! I know I would. No one knows what we go through trying to learn and expand our businesses and trying to measure that with a numbering system is never really going to show a true representation of what people's true value is, so don't take it so personally.

There's no point in complaining about how your rank dropped overnight. Mine went from 1118 to 6148! I thought GREAT! My purpose for being here is to build my business and when I have a true understanding of how to do that, then I can help others to do the same. There's SO MUCH to learn here and it's taken me from my skill level nearly a year to become as comfortable with internet marketing as I am now. I will continue to learn all aspects as much as I can when I can. That's what I'm here for. I can remember when I started here at WA that I suggested a couple of things to a few people that I was trying to help only to realise a week later as I was going through some of Jay's training that I'd said the completely wrong thing. I was quite embarrassed about it as I hoped that I hadn't steered them in the wrong direction.

The other thing that I'm not going to do is bore people with trivial 2 sentence matters in my blogs. Who has the time to read all that BS? I've had to stop following a lot of people because my email inbox was filled with useless and boring irrelevant information. It was getting just as bad as the spam folder. All in an attempt to jump up the ranking system. I guess some people must have been under the impression that the ambassadorship got you paid or something...

Now, I know that we are all here for many different reasons and we all have many different levels of experience in the wide and wonderful world of internet marketing. That is why I think this new ranking system rocks. It's finally sorting the $h*t from the clay. I do understand that we need a "safe" place to practice our internet interactions and get used to commenting and replying as it's a huge part of our business, so I feel that's why Kyle and Carson set up the previous ranking system way that it was, but now that it's based on truly helping people and not just blogging a couple of sentences, it'll hopefully be interesting to read the blogs here again.

I'd love to hear your thoughts and opinions because like butts, most of us have one...;)

Cheers,

Peter