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Konocyclist's avatar
Konocyclist
Resourceful Rider
2 months ago

Points distributions

I live and mostly bike in Oakland, CA. 
many days there are few points to be had anywhere. Contrast to San Francisco where there’s a points available everywhere. This hasn’t always been the case — and I assume there is various attempts to balance the algorithm, and that overall traffic numbers drive that 

One suggestion which might help a little bit is that stations with 1 or fewer open docks should always get extra points for taking something away. And  completely empty stations should always offer extra. A full station are no bikes mean that someone isn’t going to land their bike there or even use a bike  

i have had many occasions where i’ve opened up a dock only to have it immediately filled. When points were distributed differently, I might go out of my way to help out. But with just 1 point on offer, I don’t. 

This should be a baseline not algorithmically determined, if you trully want to incentivize people helping out. 

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  • bwitt's avatar
    bwitt
    Steady Solver
    19 days ago

    Agreed, and also I've seen cases where full stations give points for dropoffs and empty stations give points for pick-ups! Ideally, the algorithm would never assign those values that way since you always want at least one open stall and at least one bike at every station.