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06/07/04 20:49
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#71995 - RE: Good answers vs. Wrong answers
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Assuming that, say, 20% of the contributors to the forum are experts and 80% beginners we are going to see an awful lot of this sort of thing - incorrect statements validated with a thumbs up graphic. I suggest the voting system is fundamentally misleading and should be abandoned.


Once the scoring/karma system has had a chance to settle in, only people with a certain level of karma will be allowed to score messages. Presumably this will be people with more experience that will be able to know the difference between a good question and one that isn't and will also be able to differentiate between a response that is right and a response that is wrong. Right now everyone that's been a member for over 6 months can score messages--this was necessary because, obviously, everyone started with 0 karma so I couldn't implement a "minimum karma required to score" system from the beginning.

Once a minimum karma score is required to score messages, new users will only be able to give a "thumbs-up" to a message after they've earned some karma themselves... and presumably they will do that by making useful and intelligent posts. People that make useful and intelligent posts are people that will be less likely to think a wrong answer deserves a thumbs-up. So, for now, the scores a message receives may not be entirely accurate but, in time, the scores that messages receive should reflect reality better and better.

At least that's the theory.

Regards,
Craig Steiner
8052.com Webmaster

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