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Designated "Expert" Forum Users?

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tom66:
Hey, at least we don't have a way to buy "thanks" points.

bdunham7:

--- Quote from: Zero999 on February 17, 2022, 12:42:10 pm ---I admit, I'm not a fan of the thanks counter either, but if Dave wants it, then so be it.

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It's making me a bit queasy....I hope it goes away.

MK14:

--- Quote from: bdunham7 on February 17, 2022, 04:17:38 pm ---It's making me a bit queasy....I hope it goes away.

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Maybe the thanks system and/or displaying it, on all forum screens. Should be a selectable option(s), that can be enabled or disabled. Under user preferences. Then whoever wants to can just opt out of the thanks system and other possible future changes/additions.

jpanhalt:

--- Quote from: T3sl4co1l on February 17, 2022, 03:49:38 pm ---
Maybe even adding traditional 1-5 scores or something.

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Why?  Before making any change there should be a reason for it, and the advantages weighed against the disadvantages.  I outlined some of the disadvantages in my first post on this topic.  I see no advantage in a score or even keeping track of thanks.  Maybe you do.

T3sl4co1l:
To clarify, I don't expect much, or care very strongly, about such a feature (see my first comment in this thread).  Just speculating on methods that might be useful, given one is interested in adding such in the first place.

This is, more or less, motivated in relation to the one social stat we currently have, so I'm rather abusing the nature of it above.  It would certainly be renamed to something more meaningful -- "Review this post", say.

In which case, we could still have the "Thanks" function, and not even worry about tallying counts per user, because -- as we already know -- it's not a very meaningful/useful signal at all, more just an acknowledgement that people appreciate something about some posts.  It's useful under a given post, and not really beyond that.

So, given a prompt of, "that, but usefuller", that's kind of my angle on this.  Speculative, brainstormy, nothing should be read as "it will be precisely this way and no other".  I mean, hell, I'm pretty fucking far from having any kind of authority to implement such a thing, come on. ;D

...Speaking of "reviews", there's also the "report this post" function.  Which as far as I know, is nothing more than PMing a mod.  Having some built-in statistics could save some mod effort (assuming they need the assistance -- which as far as I know, hasn't been any kind of issue).  Another way to think of it is, providing more of a sliding scale from "praise" to "meh" to "factually incorrect" to "actually spam, mods pls".  Maybe there's value in the proportionality of the rating?

Idunno.  Again, I'm just an electrical engineer, not a social one. ;D

Tim

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