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| Ice-Tea:
It's not a bad idea, but much of the crux lies in who gets to decide who's expert. I'm not sure it matters if you're only labelled an expert in a single field or not. I'd say that if you've rode the Dunning-Kruger rollercoaster once, you're probably able to refrain yourself from dispensing advise from Mt. Stupid the next time around... |
| Circlotron:
How about instead of expert, professional. That is to say, someone who actually works every day in a particular discipline vs someone who plays around at home. Not that that's an infallible guide to competence of course. |
| fourfathom:
--- Quote from: Circlotron on February 15, 2022, 07:02:45 am ---How about instead of expert, professional. That is to say, someone who actually works every day in a particular discipline vs someone who plays around at home. Not that that's an infallible guide to competence of course. --- End quote --- If you have to have a rating, you could do better than "professional". Take me, for example. I used to work every day as an EE, but have been retired for over 20 years (I retired quite early). So now I play around at home. I'm still better at it than some currently-employed engineers. Again, I vote against the "expert" ranking. It's unnecessary and likely to cause problems. |
| bill_c:
I don't like it. But if you feel you must, maybe give "greybeard badges" for specific areas of competence. Only those who are expert like, good at explaining detail, and good at keeping it on topic, are worthy of such badge. And better yet, only show the badges in the "newbies" sections. To a newbie, the explaining and keeping on topic parts are more important than being a certified expert in xyz, as long as the info is correct 99% of the time. I see many cases where a simple question has N pages of replies, N-0.5 of those pages are debating the 1%. While technically that 1% can be super important in some cases and its good to know that it sometimes matters, a newbie will be confused with all the debate. |
| Berni:
I like the idea of it, however i am unsure of the actual implementation. There has to be some way of determining what user gets a tag, so either the moderation team hands them out or the community has to vote someone into it. Then there is the tenancy for some users to put a disproportionate amount of value on virtual internet points and might treat these tags as achievements. For example the popular IM platform Discord at one point introduced applications for bot developer status where they would get access to the bot API. The approved accounts would also get a bot developer badge on there user profile. The result of this is that the Discord support team got swarmed with bot developer applications from people who never intended to actually use the bot API but just wanted the shiny new badge visible on there user profile. As a result Discord stopped giving the badges while left with a dilemma what to do with the already given out badges. People who have the badge would be upset if they take them away, on the other hand letting them keep the badge would make the badge even more valuable as it is no longer possible to get this badge. Some people even sell discord accounts with rare special usernames or badges. People care a lot about there appearance on the internet. To be honest i am not even sure what tag i should have if this was implemented. I am a pretty knowledgeable long time forum user, but i couldn't pin down any particular area where i am really really good at. I have done a lot with analog, digital, programing etc.. but at what point is someone deemed an expert. |
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