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Designated "Expert" Forum Users?

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Nominal Animal:
I left StackOverflow and StackExchange because of experts who were more interested in their social score "reputation" than being factual/useful.  It is typical for high-scoring members to leave their inaccurate or misleading answer to stand as long as it garners positive score, and simply delete it without admitting any error if it looks like it might go negative.  They never admit to making an error, because that might negatively affect their "reputation".  (I know about a dozen members of each site that are the complete opposite, and like me, don't like the social gaming, but really enjoy trying to help with difficult questions, and learners to learn in an effective manner.  The majority plays the score game.)

I don't like voting "up" or "down".  The number of members who agree or disagree does not matter to me, and because it only indicates popularity (of the question and answer).  I do not believe the numerical count is actually useful in any way.  At best, it is a hint.  At worst, it may often mislead.

I'd also like to get rid of that new Thanked: counter under my country flags; it weirds me out.

What matters, is what kind of posts those who give advice, or who signal their agreement on some advice, have made in the recent past.

Note: I do not think that who agrees in itself is important or even relevant, because I believe argument from authority is a fallacy.  It's just that the most reliable and functional way to assess the weight of someones opinion is to examine their other statements at around the same time; here, their most recent posts across topics.  (Having the Thanked/Agreed name list in each post directly link to the most recent posts of that member would therefore be better than just linking to that member's profile page.)

Of course, it is even better if we can simply read the reasoning and experience behind that opinion instead, because those can be objectively evaluated for applicability in other situations, which is why I far prefer those reasons and experience over the actual opinions.  But that makes for much longer posts...

Someone:
I know other forums that went the other direction and removed even post counts from the forum display (you could still check it through their profile if you wanted) as it was uncorrelated to anything important in discussions. Should be interesting to see if publicizing a users thanked count adds any value.

Counts of things in a forum/community with diverse activities/groups is a poor measure, as discussed above with the example tea thread.

xrunner:
I'm pretty sure some of the thanks I have are due to me stating I'd had enough of the debate I was in and was going to bed ...  :-DD

eti:
An "ex" is a has-been, and a "spurt" is a drip under pressure.

No, Dave, it smacks of arrogance and lofty aspirations.  Bad move. Don't. Do. It.

Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: eti on February 18, 2022, 05:55:00 am ---An "ex" is a has-been, and a "spurt" is a drip under pressure.


--- End quote ---

I recall it being X is an unknown quantity.

But yeah.  ;D

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