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Designated "Expert" Forum Users?
Brumby:
--- Quote from: emece67 on February 22, 2022, 09:55:32 am ---I still do not understand why some insist on qualifying posters when what is wanted to qualify are posts.
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So ... how would you qualify posts?
Zero999:
--- Quote from: wilfred on February 22, 2022, 10:35:29 am ---
--- Quote from: Zero999 on February 22, 2022, 09:06:14 am ---
--- Quote from: wilfred on February 22, 2022, 08:53:27 am ---
--- Quote from: Zero999 on February 22, 2022, 08:23:35 am ---
According to my poll public opinion is mostly against the thanked counter in every post, but it's not as unpopular as the expert idea.
Doing it for individual threads is another idea, but I'd be in favour of just scrapping the counter altogether, whether it's in the profile, or posts. The thank you system should be kept, but only displayed for individual posts.
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The thanks function still has a useful purpose. It is easily apparent when someone makes a worthwhile considered post for the benefit of other forum members. And saying "thanks for the input and effort" can be inferred by the recipient.
And where Ataradov observes "I just went and checked a few accounts that I would not trust, and they have 100s of thanks." it is as easily inferred that the highly opinionated relative few tend to accumulate thanks in the diminished form of "I agree with this side of the argument".
Keep the thanks counter because it does serve to reward those worthy of it.
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You seem to have missed my point. I didn't say get rid of the thank you system. It should be kept. Whether the counters should remain or go, is a separate debate.
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I agree it does read as if I missed your point. But I agree with what you say. I think the thanks counter has massively reduced value and my response was made in the certain belief that it would be deleted entirely (and it has been) and that there is not the slightest chance of any alternative such as you suggest ever being implemented. Even if it was on a per post basis only it would still get treated as "I agree" in the context of the thread it is in. And those threads are where high thanks counts tend to accumulate as observed by Ataradov. With whom I also agree.
The thanks counter as it was could have served the function if only for those who post to be helpful provided it was ignored for any other purpose.
Regardless, the point is moot.
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All I'm proposing is to remove the thanked counter from the profile, to stop people from collecting thanks by responding to users such as treez, who abuse it, or sign up multiple accounts so they can thank each other. The ability to thank posts and "The following users thanked this post: Peter, Paul and Mary" message under the appropriate posts should remain.
Brumby:
--- Quote from: Zero999 on February 22, 2022, 10:52:03 am ---All I'm proposing is to remove the thanked counter from the profile, to stop people from collecting thanks by responding to users such as treez, who abuse it, or sign up multiple accounts so they can thank each other.
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I'm ambivalent about the counter, but I'm curious about the reason for this suggestion. Since the current situation has been the way it is for years, I am led to ask: How has this been a problem?
wilfred:
--- Quote from: Brumby on February 22, 2022, 10:57:25 am ---
--- Quote from: Zero999 on February 22, 2022, 10:52:03 am ---All I'm proposing is to remove the thanked counter from the profile, to stop people from collecting thanks by responding to users such as treez, who abuse it, or sign up multiple accounts so they can thank each other.
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I'm ambivalent about the counter, but I'm curious about the reason for this suggestion. Since the current situation has been the way it is for years, I am led to ask: How has this been a problem?
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It really hasn't as far as I am concerned. But as Zero999 says and with which I agree it does tend to get used as a way for some to collect shiny prizes as if it were a game. But if you ignore that, I thought it still had value for those who used it in the spirit originally intended.
Are we better off without it? I suppose that depends on how irritated you found using it as a way to promote tribalism in controversial discussions. I didn't find that a problem and lament the loss of the facility to say thanks without an explicit post. Which IIRC it was to minimise multiple people doing just that.
But here I am in this thread posting to say I agree so you can't deny the irony.
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: wilfred on February 22, 2022, 11:07:47 am ---Are we better off without it? I suppose that depends on how irritated you found using it as a way to promote tribalism in controversial discussions. I didn't find that a problem and lament the loss of the facility to say thanks without an explicit post. Which IIRC it was to minimise multiple people doing just that.
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The forum would be worse off without it.
When it was first introduced almost everyone liked the idea of having the ability to Thank a post. It was a nice way to say you appreciated the effort that went into the post, or agree with it etc, without pollutiing the thread with a copy of the post and a :-+ +1 :clap: etc
Essentially it rewards good and often extensive technical posts. A little deserving dopamine hit for the author.
The majority though didn't like the Thanks count being shown under the username on every post for the reasons discussed, and the new poll in the other thread still shows that's the case.
Almost everyone seems ok wiht having the count burried away in the user profile. That's something I can also disable, but no one has really asked for that.
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