Originally Posted by
anabolism
I doubt it would do that at first, but it could be added, and would need a basis of posts that were rated in order to function. So, I view a mechanism to rate posts as being a necessary first step towards making massive FT threads useful.
Sure, that's a risk, but the alternative is to either skip the entire massive thread and just post a new question that's likely been answered somewhere in the thread, or read the last page or two of posts and do the same.
Sure, no system is perfect, and likely the people who liked/rated helpful though the information was accurate.
Not all threads are massive, although I realize some forums have them. If there's pertinent information, there's also the wiki function. @:-)
While the people who liked/rated helpful the info, the point is that it wasn't accurate & they're now going to be asking for things that are contradicted by the T&Cs. Not sure how that turns out to be helpful. Also they can't go back & change their helpful to unhelpful when they come across the reality that the information was wrong.
Cheers.