Is it a good idea to vote each other here in Codeguru?

[Dr_Michael]

How do you see the idea of voting each other all of us the codeguru's participants???

Michael Vlastos
Automation Engineer
Company SouthGate Hellas SA
Development Department
Athens, Greece

[smalig]

I think that is not bad idea, because sometimes a several users replays a not correct answers and spam and maybe this feature stops it. I think so.

Best Regards.

smalig@hotmail.com
http://vbcode.webhostme.com/

[Jean Spector]

Maybe it would be a good idea if someone from the forum creators would decide how much points the answer receives based on the votes of participants?

Jean Spector
Tech Support Team Leader, CET
mage@lycosmail.com
(in VB from 11/1999)

[santulan]

Michael,

The ultimate objective of rating in my view is -
1. To encourage the responder for sending a right /appropriate answer.
2. To Rate the answer on its quality and other prefer to see the rated question. Who else can rate better other than the one who submitted the question. Because he / she is one whose problem get solved(?) by the answer.
3. Yes!!! I suggest to the creator of forum to form a group of experts in forum itself and this forum should do the extra ordinary efforts to see that all questions are replied and satisfication lavel is achieved.

regards,

Santulan

[Chris Eastwood]

I think the original idea behind the voting was so that people could automatically see if an answer was useful and more to the point, solves the persons problem. I tend to scour through the posts and look for those with a '10' to see whether it's a valid answer that could be put up on the main site.

As for producing a 'super-forum' of experts as suggested in 'santulan's post - I'm not too sure about that. I think the existing forum works well and posts only go unanswered because of :

a) They get 'lost' over the page
b) They get missed by people who could answer but don't look at the forum for a while so that (a) happens.
c) The question has been answered 100's of times before and no-one can be bothered to answer it again
d) We don't know the answer !

A good idea would be to provide a link to a faq of questions from this forum, something I'm looking into at the moment.


Chris Eastwood

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