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Designated "Expert" Forum Users?
Someone:
--- Quote from: tszaboo on February 15, 2022, 10:39:29 pm ---At the end, this is not a site [....] to post every single technical questions because you actually have no idea what you are supposed to do at your job. It's a forum.
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The admins seem to disagree with you on that point!
tpowell1830:
I think rankings of any sort are unnecessary, however, often the content of posts reveals a replyers credentials. Often there are posters that seem to throw in answers that show that they did not even read the OP. Also, there are at least 10 members that seem to reply to every post, sometimes with credulous answers, sometimes not. Then there are the essay posters that write 2 or 3 pages and, well, TLDR often. All of these may get to be called experts from these types of posts.
Let the content of the posts reveal the truth, and as someone said, the newbies will need to learn discrimination.
Cerebus:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on February 15, 2022, 11:36:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: jpanhalt on February 15, 2022, 09:33:02 pm ---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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Searching for a puke emoji to add to the forum...
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Please don't, if people have to go to the trouble of learning how to input Unicode to get additional emoji to decorate their scribbles with it slows them down. Putting it on a tool bar will only encourage those who seem to need to decorate every sentence (and sometimes every few words) with emoji.
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: thm_w on February 15, 2022, 11:38:04 pm ---Anyone who feels their expertise is relevant could add it to the "Personal Text" field in their profile. Yansi, tom66, Teslacoil, etc have done that already.
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Yep, good point.
MK14:
--- Quote from: mawyatt on February 15, 2022, 08:05:05 pm ---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.
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But this forum, isn't to be confused with a very high end University and/or gathering of top Professors. It is a place for various levels of electronics people (hobbyists, workers in the industry, and sometimes experts).
So we shouldn't want/need such formalities here.
--- Quote from: mawyatt on February 15, 2022, 08:05:05 pm ---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!
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But beginners don't need help from just extreme experts. Many people can help them. Typically their questions are actually rather simple, which just about anyone (with some electronics know how/experience) can answer.
Let's not see things in a very black and white ONLY kind of way. There are various levels of experience/abilities/knowledge/skills, within electronics people. If someone gets too obsessed with wanting expert only opinions, then it could mean that if they wanted their light bulb changing, they would insist on it being done, only by someone with 3 degrees, 2 masters and at least one professorship and 40 years plus experience.
If we decided one person on the entire forum, is THE expert. Surely they wouldn't have the time and motivation to answer ALL the questions on this forum.
EDIT: Reworded, to be more pleasant.
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