+Renegade Knight Posted January 9, 2004 Posted January 9, 2004 Yesterday I was in a users forum for PDA's. They had a system where topic starters could rate a post as to whether it helped them or not. Forum members earned points based on if the post helped a little, medium, or a lot. The topic that had an answer that nailed the issue got a special icon so you knew the question was answered. Posters were rated in regards to their helping ability as opposed to having the most posts. By looking for the 'question answered' icons you could glean good answers from the sea of topics. Good posters with lots of points got icons that showed how helpful they had really been. Here it would mostly apply to the Newbie and GPS/Software forums. I don't know if this BBS supports the feature or not but it seemed worth mentioning.
TimSkells Posted January 9, 2004 Posted January 9, 2004 People would still post alot in hope that one of the post will be helpful. So really I dont think that part of the feature would change anything.
+Team GPSaxophone Posted January 9, 2004 Posted January 9, 2004 Would I have to go back and read the threads I had started and rate others or can anyone do it?
+Renegade Knight Posted January 9, 2004 Author Posted January 9, 2004 People would still post alot in hope that one of the post will be helpful. So really I dont think that part of the feature would change anything. The beauty of the system is that you can more easily find the posts that actually help. Not so much to stop people from posting.
TimSkells Posted January 9, 2004 Posted January 9, 2004 People would still post alot in hope that one of the post will be helpful. So really I dont think that part of the feature would change anything. The beauty of the system is that you can more easily find the posts that actually help. Not so much to stop people from posting. Yeah but different post help different people. Not all the post help all the people.
+Renegade Knight Posted January 9, 2004 Author Posted January 9, 2004 ...Yeah but different post help different people. Not all the post help all the people. Exactly. Say I post a question on my GPS V. "How do I delete all the waypoints?" It's not clear in the manual how to do this. If it gets answered I can post points to the person who helped. More importantly the topic gets an icon that says "This problem got solved" Now when someone does a forum search on deleting waypoints they may find that topic. If it matches the problem they are trying to solve they know to take a look because the answer is there. It's a sorting tool because not all the threads get the question answered but sometimes someone nails it.
+Team GPSaxophone Posted January 9, 2004 Posted January 9, 2004 <snip>topic starters could rate a post as to whether it helped them or not. <snip> I guess I could start a lot of topics and rate people that agreed with me as helping. I could rate anyone that disagreed with me as non-helpful. The data would show my interpretation of who is helpful, or who I say is helpful. That may or not be the correct interpretation.
+Renegade Knight Posted January 9, 2004 Author Posted January 9, 2004 (edited) I guess I could start a lot of topics and rate people that agreed with me as helping. I could rate anyone that disagreed with me as non-helpful. The data would show my interpretation of who is helpful, or who I say is helpful. That may or not be the correct interpretation. You could also cheat on your cache logs but we still have GC.com and people like stats. Having seen a forum this works in, it does work fairly well. Edited January 9, 2004 by Renegade Knight
+ironman114 Posted January 9, 2004 Posted January 9, 2004 sounds like a good idea to me. I have used the search button a lot and some times it is hard to find the answer through all the other posts like I make sometimes. Sometimes I give up and wait for some other newbie to ask the question then I get the answer.
+Sparky-Watts Posted January 9, 2004 Posted January 9, 2004 sounds like a good idea to me. I have used the search button a lot and some times it is hard to find the answer through all the other posts like I make sometimes. Sometimes I give up and wait for some other newbie to ask the question then I get the answer. Good point. Most the time when I'm making nonsensical posts, I'm just waiting for someone else to answer the questions I've been wondering about. Ya know it's all gonna rotate through eventually, so just sit back and wait. Sooner or later, someone is going to ask, and someone is going to answer. And sometimes, I even answer questions for people, too!
+Team GPSaxophone Posted January 9, 2004 Posted January 9, 2004 Good point. Most the time when I'm making nonsensical posts, I'm just waiting for someone else to answer the questions I've been wondering about. Ya know it's all gonna rotate through eventually, so just sit back and wait. Sooner or later, someone is going to ask, and someone is going to answer. What? When do you ever sit back and wait? And sometimes, I even answer questions for people, too! Yeah, I've even seen that once or twice
+Sparky-Watts Posted January 9, 2004 Posted January 9, 2004 Good point. Most the time when I'm making nonsensical posts, I'm just waiting for someone else to answer the questions I've been wondering about. Ya know it's all gonna rotate through eventually, so just sit back and wait. Sooner or later, someone is going to ask, and someone is going to answer. What? When do you ever sit back and wait? And sometimes, I even answer questions for people, too! Yeah, I've even seen that once or twice I can wait and post at the same time! And remember that guy that said, "What kind of idiot do you take me for?".....well, I answered his question, didn't I?
+sept1c_tank Posted January 9, 2004 Posted January 9, 2004 Would I have to go back and read the threads I had started...? In some cases, that might not only be unpleasant, but a complete waste of time!
+planetrobert Posted January 9, 2004 Posted January 9, 2004 having tinkered with this message board software quite a bit on a site i run I must say this is as I see it NOT a feature sadly
+Team GPSaxophone Posted January 9, 2004 Posted January 9, 2004 I already know who to ignore when I read through threads. I don't need others to give me their opinions on the matter.
+ironman114 Posted January 9, 2004 Posted January 9, 2004 yes but some of us haven't been here long enough to tell who has a good answer and who is just a waste of good air. I mostly like the part about an icon to show the question was answered right on.
+rusty_tlc Posted January 9, 2004 Posted January 9, 2004 ironman114 Posted on Jan 8 2004, 10:43 PM I mostly like the part about an icon to show the question was answered right on. Me to. I go to other forums with other rating systems. A lot can be lost when it turns into a contest for top dog in the points system.
+Sparky-Watts Posted January 9, 2004 Posted January 9, 2004 So, let me get this straight: The forums would operate the same as they do now, only people would be able to find answered questions quicker without popping up new threads every 5 minutes on the same old topics, and I could continue vying for that top poster's spot and contribute little if anything to the forums besides a remarkably hilarious sense of humor? Ok....sounds good to me.
+Lazyboy & Mitey Mite Posted January 9, 2004 Posted January 9, 2004 Ratings are never accurate. If a cacher has a great response and otheres dislike him for one reason or another the ratings get lowered. The opposite is true of popular posters. It's fine the way it is.
+Harrald Posted January 9, 2004 Posted January 9, 2004 I read a forum that uses the rating system. It was implemented about a year ago. The thing that you can do with it is Filter lower rated threads. I have the filter set to it's lowest level. I find that people have rated threads low just because of the OP (original poster). In therory it works. In reality it doesn't.
+ironman114 Posted January 9, 2004 Posted January 9, 2004 So, let me get this straight: The forums would operate the same as they do now, only people would be able to find answered questions quicker without popping up new threads every 5 minutes on the same old topics, and I could continue vying for that top poster's spot and contribute little if anything to the forums besides a remarkably hilarious sense of humor? Ok....sounds good to me. I think you hit the nail on the head Sparky! Good job and I would give you an icon for this.
+Lone Duck Posted January 9, 2004 Posted January 9, 2004 I've seen these poster rating systems in other forums, and never really have thought much of them. I don't see how rating individual posts would be of much use to anyone either, since there really isn't a way to search the message base according how the messages are rated.
+Renegade Knight Posted January 10, 2004 Author Posted January 10, 2004 The system isn't so much rating posters as whether or not a question got a good answer that helped. If it did an icon is used on the topic indicating a good answer was obtained. If you do a search later like some have mentioned you can look at topics that relate pick out the ones with good answers and check them first. It's not about topic ratings like we had in the old forums. That's another ball of wax.
+flask Posted January 10, 2004 Posted January 10, 2004 wait, wait, wait... do you guys mean to tell me that there actually some kind of contest going on to be top poster? do you get elected by popularity, or by quanitity of posts? and what's the good of any of THAT? granted, i have a few posts, but it's just because i never shut up. "most post" seems kind of a dubious honor to me, sort of like the prize for "most consecutive saturday nights spent alone", or "adult film rental customer of the year".
+Sparky-Watts Posted January 10, 2004 Posted January 10, 2004 wait, wait, wait... do you guys mean to tell me that there actually some kind of contest going on to be top poster? do you get elected by popularity, or by quanitity of posts? and what's the good of any of THAT? granted, i have a few posts, but it's just because i never shut up. "most post" seems kind of a dubious honor to me, sort of like the prize for "most consecutive saturday nights spent alone", or "adult film rental customer of the year". Ummmm....I've held both of those positions. I'm also going for most zits popped in one squeeze. No, there's not an official contest for the top poster thingy....it's just something a few of us have been joking about amongst ourselves. I'd explain more, but I've got to make 59 more posts before midnight to make my quota.
+ChrisCindy Posted January 10, 2004 Posted January 10, 2004 wait, wait, wait... do you guys mean to tell me that there actually some kind of contest going on to be top poster? do you get elected by popularity, or by quanitity of posts? and what's the good of any of THAT? granted, i have a few posts, but it's just because i never shut up. "most post" seems kind of a dubious honor to me, sort of like the prize for "most consecutive saturday nights spent alone", or "adult film rental customer of the year". Ummmm....I've held both of those positions. I'm also going for most zits popped in one squeeze. No, there's not an official contest for the top poster thingy....it's just something a few of us have been joking about amongst ourselves. I'd explain more, but I've got to make 59 more posts before midnight to make my quota. "You no post, you no eat....you post harder"
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