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Designated "Expert" Forum Users?
Cerebus:
--- Quote from: Wallace Gasiewicz on February 19, 2022, 02:29:59 pm ---A dog (Cerebus, the dog that guards the gates of hell) Should not be allowed appropriate feline culture
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No, that's Cerberus (Kerberos, Κέρβερος). Blame Dave Sim for the spelling, and my friends Mike Collins and Kev Trease for me acquiring it as a nickname.
MK14:
--- Quote from: RoGeorge on February 19, 2022, 02:27:22 pm ---Learning from a Designated Expert:
vs learning from someone who knows (since we are at human behavior):
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Thanks!!!
The first video is so, so funny. On the other hand, I've given you thanks for creating something, not directly connected to Electronics or helping beginners.
The second video seems interesting, but is taking a while to watch.
Cerebus:
--- Quote from: MK14 on February 19, 2022, 02:30:18 pm ---The thanks total may be measuring the wrong parameters. So making it show up on everyone's forum icon post thing. Is just rubbing salt into the wounds.
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The nub there is a single 's', as in parameters. The thanks count is not measuring one parameter, but several, perhaps even including some that are diametrically imposed. (e.g. "social affability" versus "ability to challenge popularly held but incorrect factoids")
Bud:
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on February 19, 2022, 02:38:18 pm ---'Valuable' has meaning where 'thanks' does not. There have been many posts where I would have liked to say "this is a great post" but 'thanks' is not the way to do that. Marking them valuable would have been a no-brainer.
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Valuable literally means "having a value". When I want to indicate I "Agree" with the poster it does not automatically means the post "holds a value" to me that I could make a use of. I just happened to be of a same opinion with the poster.
thinkfat:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on February 19, 2022, 02:37:28 pm ---
--- Quote from: thinkfat on February 19, 2022, 09:58:23 am ---IMHO, a public display of the "thanks" counter can be a valuable contribution to overall forum climate.
As it is public, people will in general seek to increase it. And I think they will find out it helps not to be a total jack-ass.
An option to disable the public display for one's personal profile, for those who absolutely despise it, would be welcome.
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How often, in real life, is the jack-ass highly popular with their particular in-crowd? Think of the loud rugby/hockey/whatever player at college who was cheered on in their idiocy by by all the other players while the rest of the world went "Oh no, not him again!" as he bellowed his way into the bar? Their friends would up-vote them and with no countering down-vote they would appear universally popular. So, no, there's no reason that the total jack-asses will be kept in check by a public display of "thanks".
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Like, Nigel Farage? :-DD (I'm so, so sorry, I just could not resist the bait).
However, this forum is not your stereotypical pub environment and the people here are not in general the college jock type who get their ass handed to them by a wimp bitten by a radioactive spider.
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