Dear Community,
We're going to experiment with a change in how we allocate our internal bandwidth for the next 3 months to deliver better documentation, quant alpha research, and more datasets, but we need your help to make it happen.
Currently, we have 3.5 FTE quants on the team, with roughly 2.5 of them working on completely free community support. It is a pretty big load on our team. We're going to reduce this down to 0.5 to handle critical issues and rely on you, the awesome community who is the core of QC, to help us support the new quants learning the ropes.
We heard your critical feedback on the documentation and have been working for almost a year on docs-v2. The freed-up time will let us finish docs-v2 this year, publish more new datasets to create better strategies, and create high-quality quant research projects based on Alpha Streams.
These projects should improve the QuantConnect/LEAN community as a whole. To thank you for giving to others, we'll generously disperse cloud credit for your time. If you're able to commit 5-10 hours a week helping others in the community and have a solid working knowledge of the API, we'd love to make you a “Community Ambassadors” and give you free QuantConnect cloud credit. We're making 2 levels of ambassadors based on the engagement and how helpful you are to others:
- Silver: Up to $200/mo credit.
- Gold: Up to $400/mo credit.
If you're interested in participating, send me a DM in Discord.
The community is growing beyond what we can support 1-1, which is fantastic, but we'll need to change how we work to make it sustainable.
Best,
Jared
PauPadilla Greendry
Great Idea! ambassadors 🚀
Jared Broad
Just a small update to this – rather than QC monitoring or policing who are the ambassadors, it is now an algorithm that picks the most helpful people in the community and airdrops the credit right into your account. Each week it will rotate to the most helpful people from the last week. 💖
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Spacetime
nice! algos! lol
Vladimir
Jared Broad,
About a small update.
Good to know.
I'm just wondering how much the algorithm has been trained to distinguish the complexity
of the problem being solved, which can be, in terms of the time and knowledge spent,
from 1 minute to find a link in the documentation or forum, to 4-6 hours of intensive research.
Jared Broad
Not yet Vladimir, but in true QC fashion, we tend to build things in layers =). Last week was rev0, this week is rev0.1 etc, so if there is anyone gaming it or not being helpful we'll edit the algorithm incrementally. We also don't record Discord help yet but ideally, we could recognize live-chat help too.
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Vladimir
Jared Broad,
I see some details
--> Scores calculated with the sum of the comments placed in reply to a genuine user question, plus a bonus point if the comment is the accepted answer by the community member.
Thus, QC puts ambassadors in the competition for easy to reply comments rather than being a team. Also it may increase the log of complex questions.
Jared Broad
🤔 Happy to hear constructive suggestions, it is all brand new and open to feedback
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Vladimir
Jared Broad,
Another suggestion.
According to the statistics I have, on 15623 comments, there are only 1538 accepted answers,
so the weight of the accepted answer should be much higher than 1, at least 5.
Vladimir
Jared Broad, There is another suggestion to improve the “Ambassadors ranking robot”.If the question is about a bug in the code the comment with the attached backtest should receive bonus points.
Mak K
Hi,
imo accepted answers shouldn't be weighted more than they already are, opens up too much gaming opportunity 😊
Vladimir
Mak K,
You have one of the highest level of accepted answers 8 from 31 in QuantConnect community.
Higher than Derek Melchin 342 from 1,546.
Can you explain how more weighted "accepted answers" opens up too much gaming opportunity?
Idle talk without results, opens gaming opportunity.
Vladimir
Jared Broad,
-→ Each week it will rotate to the most helpful people from the last week
When the week for the “Ambassadors ranking robot” begins and ends?
Vladimir
Jared Broad,
One more suggestion.
It would be nice to see not only the overall score, but also the result over the last week.
Something likes this
Score 27 (3)
Jared Broad
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