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Designated "Expert" Forum Users?
rstofer:
--- Quote from: tom66 on February 17, 2022, 04:17:28 pm ---Hey, at least we don't have a way to buy "thanks" points.
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Sure we do! I'll thank all of your posts if you thank all of mine and we'll be the overachievers of the Thanks system.
jpanhalt:
--- Quote from: rstofer on February 17, 2022, 04:53:06 pm ---
Sure we do! I'll thank all of your posts if you thank all of mine and we'll be the overachievers of the Thanks system.
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And I suspect you know that is exactly what happens on another forum, not to mention names. Except, that forum now gives trophies.
MK14:
--- Quote from: jpanhalt on February 17, 2022, 05:23:16 pm ---And I suspect you know that is exactly what happens on another forum, not to mention names. Except, that forum now gives trophies.
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I have no idea which forum you are talking about (maybe ?). But if I did, I imagine they would have categories as follows:
--- Quote ---Messages
Helped 123
Reputation 456
Reaction score 789
Trophy points 1234
Activity points 5678
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What exactly do those things mean, such as what determines the reputation, what is a reaction score, and activity points. What are trophy points ?
Would a beginner, even have a clue what those parameters mean ?
I wonder if it is aiming to get the facebook likes/dislikes crowd or something.
Algoma:
"helpful" Reaction type emoji's that can be "awarded" to the headers of significant posts in a thread to highlight them. Basically see Reddit "awards" for reference, these can also become a source of financial support for the forum operations to give them more actual value.
:horse: :-/O :scared:
hans:
Having read the discussion of the last few pages.. don't know where to hook into. But my 2cts:
The "Thanks" system is analogous to the Facebook Like button. Stackexchange atleast has the downvote option. YouTube HAD the downvote option. I think an upvote only system is flawed by design.
Second, turning engineering advisory into some kind of democracy system is hard, or .. weird. If we want an expert assigned, how is that expert promoted or nominated? Is it based on popularity, amount of effort/activity or visibility? I've seen some people posting regurarly with good advice, but also admitting their limitations of knowledge. OTOH I've also seen some pretty though and relentless comments on this forum from time to time, especially when things start to get opinion based, so I would hardly be surprised if any of this will be based on fairness or equal treatment.. If that is of interest.
E.g. if a college undergrad needs to study a paper for class and can point out a mistake in the calculations to the professor.. Then that still is a mistake. And that mistake could cause a skyscraper to go down. In that case it's a good thing that there is a disinterest in the discussion.
I personally think all of these post counters, thanks, likes, ratios, badges, assigned expert, "Voted as helpful answer" is a race to the bottom: monkeys climbing the mountain and being the one on top. Obviously we're goofing around with the system in this thread, but I personally think that having a discussion on equal human and moral values is the best environment a forum can put forward.
For example, I'm very content that the moderation and administration of this forum doesn't go onto a power grab to make their point or try to "organize" the system to their liking. I've seen this happen quite often on other platforms, such as StackExchange, where they can start whining about referencing some external site (because it may go down in the future, rendering the post "useless").
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