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Designated "Expert" Forum Users?
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--- Quote from: amyk on February 15, 2022, 04:30:12 am ---Where's the "I like it, but only if I can be one" choice? :P
More seriously, I usually pay less attention to who posted something, than what they posted. From that perspective, emphasising the former wouldn't be a good idea.

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That's what I do in most cases too. I guess it's more for newbies who get a whole bunch of responses and don't have the technical ability to judge each post on its technical merits.
Although we do have the Thanks system for posts.
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: MrMobodies on February 15, 2022, 04:48:12 am ---Maybe I misunderstand but I thought that was what the moderators were for nominated to a board/subject of their expertise.

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We don't moderate technical content here.
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--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on February 15, 2022, 04:40:34 am ---I don't understand what is wrong with the existing Thanked User system here. The first one to answer with the nearest solution is marked by consensus.

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It's used a bit but I guess not often enough to be really useful. No one looks every beginner thread and gives a rate unlike say StackExchange.
Maybe it's just not possible on a chat forum based system to solve this, it's just the wrong platform to even try? Horses for courses so to speak. Stack Exchange will always do it way better?
Mr.B:
Like @Ed.Kloonk said, the Thanks system usually indicates a valid answer to a question or solution, or a more valuable contribution.
Anyway, I have been here long enough to know who here is an authority on a certain discipline and who the far less knowledgeable are.
I am pretty good at being able to see the wood for the treez…
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--- Quote from: fourfathom on February 15, 2022, 04:38:52 am ---I hang out on a non-technical forum where members can give other members up-votes or down-votes.  I think I have only up-votes there (because that's the kind of person I am!) but I still don't like it.  When politics or other opinions run hot the votes end up showing who is "in the club" and who is out.  Perhaps on this engineering forum this wouldn't be as much of a problem, but in any case I don't think the "expert" status is needed.  This is a public-access forum, anybody asking questions here should know that, and from what I've seen any "wrong" information gets corrected (or at least well-discussed) pretty quickly.
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Way back we trialed a rating system of some sort here (thumbs up/down was it?), but IIRC it was abused with people just voting down people they didn't like. I think we did a poll and the majorty voted to remove it in favour of a simple Thanks system.
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