Just thought I'd mention it...

[Mr 5 0]

Originally posted by jimberg

Dan,

Would it be possible to add a feature that allows users to mark a post as useful in only the technical forums? Nothing more or less than that. Then you could rate a user based on how useful other people find their posts. I'm sure that Chris will rate very high in that respect. You could also use the same information to have a list of posts that are found to be the most useful. It may actually develop to be an automatically generated FAQ. Just an idea.

jimberg:

Thanks for the input.

Rather than increase competition for some sort of subjective rating that places one member above another based on a vague criteria of their posts 'usefulness' I would prefer to allow individual members to simply make their own judgements on any members posts based on what they see for themself. We don't need popularity contests and no matter how you try to structure it, marking posts as 'useful' is akin to doing just that.

As Eric stated, we have the 'star rating' system and it's infrequently used, as you know.
I'm sure everyone is aware of PKRWUD's expertise and trust his advice. I do. Same with a few other members; one builds a reputation here and that should be the main basis of judgement, as I see it. Popularity contests are not trustworthy guides to anyones expertise.