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| Cubdriver:
It seems a good idea at first brush, but as others have previously stated, I foresee too much opportunity for it to go off into the weeds and turn into a cluster fornication, requiring more time and effort from Dave and the other mods for policing. My vote is to keep it as it is now. -Pat |
| nctnico:
--- Quote from: magic on February 15, 2022, 07:17:32 pm ---It's not some special Expert Answers delivered by the chosen few and highlighted with bold font in <blink> tags, but custom titles under the username so that a newcomer who gets two guys arguing contrary points in incomprehensible technobabble in his thread stands a chance of picking out the Good Guy. --- End quote --- I doubt that is going to work. In some past cases the good guys got banned and the trolls got to stay. You are dealing with engineers here and some are quite far on the autism spectrum. |
| mawyatt:
When I was a kid long ago we had numerous "Experts" to ask, we knew they were "Experts" and the answers were trustworthy. College courses were taught by the "Experts", they were also called Books. We had some other "Experts" with a known company/product affiliation, these were called Application Notes from HP, Tektronix, Fluke, LT, National, and so on, or even other "Experts" within the IEEE called "Fellows". These past "Experts" included Grey & Meyer, Horowitz, Zverev, Rabiner & Gold, Roberge, Pease, Williams, Widlar, later Lee, Razavi and so on. We knew where to go for the right answers to a particular question and we did not have Google, nor the Internet, but didn't have to sift thru eons of mis-information, BS and such. Today companies generally don't produce the quality App Notes of the past, most true "Experts" don't write textbooks anymore, so a newbie has to resort to Google and/or the Internet, and sift thru all that. Believe there are a few "Experts" here, that most would agree would provide beneficial and timely information to those newbies that request such. Know they certainly helped me when I joined a couple years ago, but had to spend countless hours/days/weeks finding who they were and sifting thru threads, so having designated "Experts" or whatever you want to call them, seems worthwhile IMO. Of course the issues of selection and whatnot are difficult, the IEEE seems to have done well with the Fellow nomination and selection process, maybe that model should be considered. Anyway, I've already paid my "dues" and know who to "listen" to and not, so reducing the suffering for newbies just might prove useful! Best, |
| Gyro:
I think the whole expert designation idea is a nightmare, which would almost certainly be detrimental to the forum. Why not leave it to the recipients of advice to decide? .... The forum has a perfectly workable 'Thank' option. It ought to be possible to produce a simple thanked / total posts merit figure (probably weighted with number of posts to avoid the 100% 1 thanked out of 1 posted situation). If somebody feels it worth thanking a post from another member, then it indicates that they have been helpful / useful. Maybe gaining a high enough ratio can be interpreted as being some sort of 'Expert' if you want to see it that way. Just the view of a greybeard engineer (who has worked in several sectors). |
| jpanhalt:
It just occurred to me. Maybe "Influencer" maybe be more appropriate? ;) At least that plays well on Twitter and FB. (sarc.) |
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