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| magic:
--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on February 19, 2022, 10:41:37 am ---The "I agree" would solve a completely different problem: when someone asks a question, with one or a couple of suggestions, but no further discussion; and to help new members assess suggestions provided (if existing contributing members started endorsing suggestions they consider worthwhile especially in the Beginner forum). Because we do not want to pollute the threads with "I agree" posts, we are now silent --- End quote --- Well, in such case I simply drop "thanks" to the poster who has relieved me of posting something I fully agree with. I'm not the only one. And frankly, more often than that, I just roll my eyes at the utter inability of the OP to communicate and a dozen people trying to second-guess what the problem really is and writing walls of text which the OP likely doesn't need and may not even understand. Maybe that section is not really for me, but I read a lot of it. Also, maybe, just maybe, similar reasons exist why many others don't bother endorsing posts which have already been made. Maybe the "thanks" button should simply be renamed "like" as on You Know Where, as that appears to be the best overall fit to how people use that thing in practice :D edit MK14, did you set up some bot to automatically like all my posts as soon as they are up? :D Maybe I should like yours in return? |
| rstofer:
How about an 'opt out' option? I don't want to be graded by my peers and certainly not be newbies. I'm willing to give up the ego points to avoid grading. Just print '*' chars instead of a number. Or, cause the field to overflow and maybe the default is to print asterisks. Fortran does! There was more but I used the Cut feature. |
| PlainName:
--- Quote from: Bud on February 19, 2022, 03:03:12 pm --- --- 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. --- End quote --- 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. --- End quote --- It is whether the post has value to others - you know yourself if it's useful or valuable to you, this is about letting others know you think the information in it is valuable in relation the the thread. It is a decent answer, perhaps, or explains something well. I would also suggest that users' 'valuable' count isn't shown (as the thanks count is now). It's not about who posted and entirely about the content, which stands alone. |
| emece67:
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| magic:
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on February 19, 2022, 06:17:17 pm ---I would also suggest that users' 'valuable' count isn't shown (as the thanks count is now). It's not about who posted and entirely about the content, which stands alone. --- End quote --- I don't disagree with the former, but if you like forums that are entirely about the content which stands alone, why not try 4chan instead? That's their mantra ;D |
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