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SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: Sredni on February 19, 2022, 04:27:39 pm ---Yep, to keep egos out of the picture, the judgement should be on the answers alone.

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That's indeed yet another issue with scoring and status flags. They are largely dependent on the person and not just the individual contributions themselves. That's a well know social effect. The exact same answer from two different people with different social images and status will usually get very different reactions.

You can see this all the time in all situations. But just on this forum, the same happens. In many threads, you'll see several people basically posting the same answer. Some will get a 'thanks', some won't (and no, not necessarily following posting order). What's the value in that? Is adding more buttons and flags going to make things better? I doubt it. :popcorn:

But I'm not surprised Dave got this kind of suggestion. As I said, many people these days just want quick answers to their questions, without having to further work on understanding the answers, checking that they are relevant. They just want quick recipes and move on. That's the opposite of learning.

And, flags and counters are useless if you are a regular on a forum and half know the other regulars and their usual contributions. So that "need" arises mainly from the non-regular users, a number of which fall into the above category; they'll post once, will want quick and authoritative answers, will not even reply back, and you'll never see them again. Until next question.

PlainName:

--- Quote ---if you like forums that are entirely about the content which stands alone
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The value of the post in relation to the thread. Not the forum, not the poster, not other threads.

PlainName:

--- Quote ---you'll see several people basically posting the same answer. Some will get a 'thanks', some won't (and no, not necessarily following posting order)
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Part of it may be not to reward a poster who is usually a pillock, but often it's merely which post one comes across first. People often drop into threads at random posts (where 'random' may actually mean 'latest') so just because one post was entered first that doesn't mean it's the first that will be seen. The first actual post may never be seen by the thanker.

rstofer:

--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on February 19, 2022, 06:49:03 pm ---
--- Quote ---if you like forums that are entirely about the content which stands alone
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The value of the post in relation to the thread. Not the forum, not the poster, not other threads.

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In whose opinion?  Do I even care about their opinion?  Hint:  I'm too old to care!

This whole topic is about drive-by questions (and ego points but I'll let that rest awhile).  The OP has an ill defined problem and often doesn't reply back when the other users have questions that need to be resolved before a solution can be proposed.  As stated above, they don't want to learn the approach to finding a solution, they want a quick number.  A hit-and-run question...

And they haven't even tried Google.  All of human knowledge is available on Google including an answer to their question.  Quick self-survey, how many times have you used a Google link to answer a question without adding much personal content?  Sometimes Wikipedia has really good explanations.

Even reading the Wiki seems to be too much effort, they just want a number and they want somebody else to do the work for them.  And complain when they don't get it in the first reply.  So they want to identify the experts and will probably wonder why none of them have responded.  Are the experts really going to get involved with every question posted in every forum?  It's going to be a full time job!

Numbers guys:  What is the average number of new threads opened per day?

emece67:
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