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Designated "Expert" Forum Users?
Cerebus:
--- Quote from: Brumby on February 21, 2022, 07:42:28 am ---Besides, the statistic has been available for anyone to see - and has been for as long as I can remember. Just click on a member's Username and it's right there on the landing page of their profile.
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There's quite a difference of degree between the statistic being available for anyone to see upon seeking it out, and seeing it every time one reads a post.
As I've consistently pointed out, the "thanked" count isn't a helpful statistic. At best, it partitions people into "either helpful or affable or both" and "not (either helpful or affable or both)". At worst it tells you nothing. The only time I've found it informative is as a loose indication when I've encountered someone I haven't noticed before, and they are either being a dick, apparently trolling, or trying to start a fight, to determine if they are just having a bad day or if it's likely to be normal behaviour for them
Zero999:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on February 20, 2022, 11:52:46 pm ---
--- Quote from: jpanhalt on February 20, 2022, 11:04:39 pm ---My real fear with all of this is not what Dave decides to do, but why? Is he looking for or being pursued by a suiter? AAC when that way with EETech Media; ETO and EDAboard were acquired by WTWH Media. What's EEVBlog future?
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:-DD
It's in the first post. Someone asked about it and it kinda had some merit so I asked here.
But I am considering competing offers from Klaus Schwab at the WEF, Bill Gates, the Koch brothers, Blackrock, and some guy who looks remarkably like a lizard. I'm kinda erring on the side of the lizard guy.
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If you're going to sell it, I vote for Donald Trump. At least he won't do woketard things such as ban master slave terminology. >:D
strawberry:
experts are for kids and cat lovers, I have Hyper global mega admiral electrical ultra engineering degree
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: strawberry on February 21, 2022, 06:20:12 pm ---experts are for kids and cat lovers, I have Hyper global mega admiral electrical ultra engineering degree
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+1 (not thanked, for obvious reasons)
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: Someone on February 21, 2022, 06:02:19 am ---
--- Quote from: Brumby on February 21, 2022, 05:10:48 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on February 21, 2022, 02:24:50 am ---What is your problem? Where have I ever said I'm going through with this? Show me the post. It was very clear from the first hour that it wasn't popular, so it's not going ahead.
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Maybe there are people that haven't had the experience of being asked their opinion and having it listened to.
As Dave said, the idea proposed is not going ahead. It was run up the flagpole to see how many would salute it and how many would shoot it down. From the crunch of all the brass under foot, the answer would seem rather obvious (to me, at least).
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But it is completely unrelated and co-incidental that while this discussion was taking place the user displays gained a "thanked" count? :-DD and that change is nothing at all like trying to obviously rank/separate users. Things did change, despite there being no popular consensus.
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I turned that on as an experiment that showed what it used to look like when we first installed the thanks system. It didn't seem to work any more so I forgot about it. Maybe it took time to turn back on. But yeah, there it is.
Anyway, surprise, that's what it used to look like and people didn't really like it IIRC.
I think it could work if it was renamed.
As for it "Ranking" people, it's not that much different to post count, except that it's more useful, it shows that people have respected what that user has to say.
Should I remove it again?
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