Originally Posted by
BotB
Agree (bolded bit) and for that reason the helpful button would be useful as another way of filtering information on a topic I don't know about. We each use different means of evaluating any information we see here.
As to whether I was popular in school...no. end of. My parents had to tie pork chops to me just to get the dogs to play with me. I survived....
I voted against this proposal, as I neither need nor benefit from a popularity contest to make an assessment of content which I read on FT. Verbal responses to content are way more useful to me than a popularity scoring contest in response to a given FTer or FTer's post. Master threads and wikis work much better IME.
I find that popularity contests don't add positively to my experience on FT and that the popularity contests get in the way of examining or responding to content appropriately. I expect that this will be no different.