After you hav replied to someone`s post and your post hav been of help, would you like to be rated or have the OP post a message of thanks. Or would u like to have both?
Would u also mind if some1 disaproved yor post?
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After you hav replied to someone`s post and your post hav been of help, would you like to be rated or have the OP post a message of thanks. Or would u like to have both?
Would u also mind if some1 disaproved yor post?
Thanking and Rating is naturally the best amongst the options presented.
Saying "Thank You" to someone who has helped, and deserves it is IMO a good habit that ought not to be forgotten. Apart from acknowledging the help, it also tells others reading the thread that the solution given solved the problem. This is important too.
As far as Positive Ratings go - one does not need to only rate posts that answers one's query.
One can rate any good reply from anyone; even in threads not started by oneself . This is encouraged, and is a good practise.
As far as Negative Ratings go - one must use them sparingly, and on good premise (like outright provocative rude behaviour for example), if at all one should.
When one receives an unjustified Negative Rating, de-motivating as it may be - one must dismiss it as an extreme case, and continue. There are people who don't know the effects of it, those that make mistakes, and sometimes there are pranksters.
Totally agreed here. And I always say thank you, even ifit's just for a link with the answer in...Quote:
Originally Posted by Siddhartha
Alright, I`ll remember these points next time.
In my opinion:
Thanks is a little magic word with special powers. Sometimes a small thank you can make your day, sometimes a thank you is all you need to hear. When I hear / read Thank You, I feel quite chuffed with myself. Then I know the problem is solved and I've helped someone. As you can see in my signature "If You have Helped me, Thank You!".
Rating is also a very good gesture from someone, sometimes you get a rating from somebody you didn't expect to get it from, then you know you must be doing something right. I always rate as much as possible, and I make it a point, that if someone has helped me, I rate them. If I see a very good reply on another thread, I rate the person, because he/ she deserves it.
Negative Ratings, well the other day I got one (which is probably no surprise to you guys :p ), I typed a very small thing wrong, and a person gave me a Negative Rating. It's only one point, But, now I'm still on 199 Rating. I felt bad and devestated, but, I've learnt that I should Preview my posts before submitting :blush:
My conclusion:
A Thank you is more than enough :thumb:
Well, that didn't last long ;) 200 already! I can see how that would have hurt though. Was the person a long term member, or a new one? (I'm not after names here, just curious). I've been tempted to throw a negative rep at some posts that I thought were very anti-social, but I was worried that it would turn into a negative rep war - I've seen that happen a few times, and frankly, I don't think it helps the forum.Quote:
Originally Posted by HanneSThEGreaT
Personally, I think a thanks is great. It gives you the warm fuzzy feeling, and also goes to show others that you helped in a visible way by indicating that the thread has been resolved (cause how many ppl actually use the "resolved" option? come to think of it, last time I used it, it wasn't working...).
Mmmmm, thanks or rating...
how about money!!
na, just joking. I think a good "thanks this helped" is far more useful than ratings. If some one wants to give me negative ratings and I deserve it then fine. But generally I get a little anoyed when getting neg ratings for expressing my opinion (happen several times now).
Thanx Zeb :thumb:Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeb
It was a new - ish member, but, it's all forgotten now! :rolleyes:
BTW. Zeb, I'm on 217 already :p
It was only 2-3 months ago we were even... now you are almost 100 above... :cry: ;) my post rate has been dropping this last 6 months...Quote:
Originally Posted by HanneSThEGreaT
I've noticed, why¿Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeb
work, home - all so busy now.
My last job I really hated so I would spend large slabs of the day posting answers (and checking them). Now, I don't hate my job, and want to do well, so I can't spend much time doing extra-curricular stuff. Chit chat is no-brainer stuff (generally) that only takes a few minutes of my time a day, but posting answers - I like to double check to make sure I'm at least close to right, so it takes more time then I should spend during work hours.
And home life... Check the sig. Every spare hour (that my girlfriend allows) is spent playing battlefield 2 ;)
You are having a great time :) :thumb: ... As for the thanks and rating - I feel like rating people -ve whose replies are like nowhere related to the topic of the thread or subsequent queries asked during the discussion. Also, copying and pasting whole stuff from a link into the reply...thats very bad. I mean quote a few lines that are relevant and then provide the link...thats a better option. I think people do learn these with time and then the quality of posts improves but sometimes they are very bad, dont seem to improve either. And frankly speaking I sometimes feel very annoyed. But I dont do so. And I think thats better. I sometimes even feel the negative rating should be removed - just keep a positive feedback - if a person helped - rate or else leave that as it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeb
Regarding thanks - yeah...that motivates a lot. also as far as ratings are concerned - one from a senior member is much more motivating that tens from new comers... I will go with Sid, both a thanks and a rating point are a good pattern to follow. But ratings has to be less frequent than thanks. Thanks for each post that is helpful and rate one of the helpful posts in a thread coz there can be more than one amazing posts by a person in a thread...and you obv cant rate them all (as you need to spread some reputations). But anyways .. these depends on people's different perspectives as to how they see these... but yeah both going together is perfectly fine and welcome. :) Regards.
A Rating or even a nice comment from a moderator is also a huge boost :thumb:Quote:
Originally Posted by exterminator
You been working ? :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeb
If it helped, a thank you is more than enough. And should be provided to mark the end of the thread. IMHO ratings should be taken out. They prove pretty much nothing and encourage duplicated answers that bring nothing new to the thread. I'd say keep them in a slightly modified form: do not count them.
From my experience: 95% of OPs not even swear you after its problem was solved.Quote:
Originally Posted by hitai
If I mind if someone gived me anegative rating: YES.
Like every human, I'm wondering, since I had only good intentions,...
And returning to OP.
hitai, can you have the decency to post, let's say, at least 50 answers here, before asking us such kind of questions?
Sorry for not posting back any answer, have been busy lately. I`m in the process of finishing up my final project by next week so that i can graduated. So i`ve not visited this thread for sometime. Sorry about this.
Anyway, back to topic.
Previously, I was also one of the many who don`t say thank you but i gave rating to post that have been of help. But now I realised that most people prefer a package containing both a "thank you" as well as a rating. I`ll remember to do both from now on.
And i think, when you do not hear from the OP again, most of the time it means that the problem has been solved. otherwise more questions will be asked, don`t you think.
Òh, and befor I forget. Thanks to all who continues to help others even tho 95% of OP disappears after getting a solution (including me) :PQuote:
From my experience: 95% of OPs not even swear you after its problem was solved.
You people are so noble
But then, why do you stil help when no one acknowledges yor help by saying thanks? Wat incentive is ther?
Why are you doing this? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by hitai
Doing wat? :confused:
Making fun/provoking the people here on CG. That's what your posts sound like.Quote:
Originally Posted by hitai
Ok...sorry if it sounded that way. Didn`t mean to.
I agree with this. A thank you and updating the subject of the thread to resolved helps a lot. As said in previous posts, Thank You means that the problem was solved and others will benefit from it, because they won't have to post the same topic again.Quote:
Originally Posted by PadexArt
Moreover Gentlemen always say Thank You when someone helps them. Ain't it so here also.
Because we (although I'm most certain about myself but I'm certain about others too, so using the word "we") still remember that once we were noob too and someone out there helped us.Quote:
Originally Posted by hitai
There is no way that you can repay for what others do for you here, everyone has a busy life but still they take out there valuable time (and trust me for many there time clicks, you can ask for the consultancy rates to find out :p) and help for free. Thats why they are "Gurus", they don't help for rating or thank you, thats there kind nature, but the least one can do is type two words and make two clicks.
Personally, I agree with PadexArt and others about rating stuff, but different strokes for different folks.
Exactely :thumb:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shuja Ali
Nicely said :thumb:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ejaz
personally the best acknowledge for me is learning something new from the OP's question,I'm realy not interested to answer someone if I feel his problem is a simple one and its refering to his lazyish manner.Quote:
Originally Posted by hitai
A couple of reasons. First, although I'm sure the good people here at CG would help me with my problems regardless of whether I did the same for other people, I'd feel bad about getting help here and then not offering what little I can in return.Quote:
Originally Posted by hitai
The main reason, though, is that I just like doing it. Programming has fascinated me since I was a child, and I find it interesting regardless of whether I'm working on something for myself or for someone else. Plus, I think that explaining concepts to others helps to build or reinforce one's own knowledge. I've often posted answers that I didn't know when I read the question, but was able to figure out quickly; in that case, I'm learning as much as whoever posted the question to begin with. Even if I'm answering a question that seems trivial to me, considering it again from the viewpoint of someone with less experience might reveal another facet of the question that perhaps I'd never considered before.
It might mean that your answer was what was needed. Or it might mean that the OP simply figured the problem out himself and didn't bother coming back to the thread, or gave up and decided to take another approach. That's why I like seeing thanks posted in a thread; if I take the time to write up an explanation of something, it's nice to know that someone at least read it, if not used it. ;)Quote:
And i think, when you do not hear from the OP again, most of the time it means that the problem has been solved. otherwise more questions will be asked, don`t you think.
Reputation points are always a nice gesture, particularly when they come from someone whose opinion I really respect, but I'm certainly never disappointed if someone doesn't rate a post. Thanks are more important.
Ratings. I'd say it has it's benefits too. A noob might have more confidence on a post from someone who has more ratings.. I think that was what the ratings were supposed to do..
Personally, I don't care much if I am rated/not rated.
But, a thank you is a good gesture. It shows some respect to someone's time, first of all. When someone spends some time to answer some Tom/**** or Harry's question, the person deserves at least that much.
And, smilies.. very important ;) Sometimes relaxes the mood a bit and makes conversation more cordial.
Since this thread has touched upon "thank you", let me take a moment to thank all who have asked questions and answered. There is so much I have learnt from even the seemingly simplest questions asked by the forum visitors, that I don't beleive I would have even bothered discovering on my own :wave: