Re: Forum message thread enhancement suggestion
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Nov 10, 2012
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What would be the basis for assigning reputation to a person or post?
One interesting feature I saw was the ability for a forum user to mark a post as helpful. The more users who marked a post as helpful, the higher that post's helpfulness rating went up. It was possible to search for posts by helpfulness, so the most helpful posts would be shown first.
It reminded me of the microeconomy we have, but for forum content instead of for code.
The helpfulness feature was tied to a "thanks" function. I wasn't sure what this was for, but if someone thought your post was helpful, you got a message saying that this user thanked you.
I'm not 100% sure that a feature like that would be appropriate to a programming forum like this. On the other hand, I wouldn't be against it either. (I do see a potential conflict of interest when the majority of posters are moderators/admins themselves, however. :)
