Originally Posted by
Kiwi Flyer
If an upvote (or whatever) is taken by FTers as an indicator of quality or usefulness, there needs to be some mechanism to deal with incorrect or dated info.
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Originally Posted by
lo2e
+1 - Would one possible solution (not knowing whether the technological capability is there to do this or not) be for mods/admins to be able to "reset" a post's usefulness/helpfulness if it's found to be outdated?
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If people took the time to vote, the mods should respect that & leave the votes as they are. Sure, the info might be outdated. If so, that needs to be explained elsewhere in a thread/wiki.
Originally Posted by
Prospero
i don't think this will be an issue TBH since posts are time stamped and of course all great information posted on FT will ultimately lose its relevance over time. I don't recall ever receiving complaints of this nature about short +1 type posts
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If you want to clean up a thread and nuke all of the +1 votes, I'd be all for that. Don't see how that translates into LIKES for a thread though. But maybe you're doing people a favor. If they can't figure out that LIKE is a replacement for +1, then their vote
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I support the idea of a Helpful post button because it adds a qualitative dimension to the post counts, titles (Evangelist, Legend), and program affiliations which members may use to assess a post's credibility. Positive reinforcement encourages more of the same, and this tool should increase engagement of members who are high quality, but infrequent, posters.
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The button itself doesn't provide what you mention. That comes from building some additional infrastructure to see who has the most valuable posts, how many people have voted your posts as helpful, or maybe even who has voted on certain posts. In other words, it turns it into a contest. It's still very unclear how the metrics will be used and who will be able to see them. No solid details on how this is intended to be used, so impossible to predict the ways that people will try to game the system. I agree that there CAN be some valuable data obtained from these metrics, it's all a matter of implementation to see whether or not they could really be useful. As far as positive reinforcement, we get too much of that already. A tough love approach is needed, which includes a DISLIKE button.
We already have a triangular Unhelpful button, located in the lower left corner of every post.
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Not even remotely the same.
If a post contains inaccurate information it would not be ideal to mark it "Unhelpful". Instead, you should reply to the thread by posting the correct information. If there were a Helpful button your more accurate reply should attract clicks.
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There are stupid people here. They post stupid things. There is no point in asking them to correct it, or getting into a debate about the info, because they're often stupid AND stubborn.
I don't think TalkBoard's role is to simply follow the results of a poll, but the number of members who have voted in the poll approaches the number who voted in the most recent TalkBoard election, and it should be given some weight.
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Originally Posted by
alphaod
I don't like this; it often ends up being a rep contest and that's never good. It also gets distracting and does it really add content to the thread? Will threads that people "like" look bigger on the page or they will just look the same? If they look the same then what's the point? Just more stuff to read.
However on many forums there is an option to pose a question (ie: there is a checkbox that asks if this is a question oppose to just a discussion) in this case, I think a "Answered" or "This is helpful" button is appropriate.
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Summary: I'm against the LIKE button. But if you add it, you have to balance it with a DISLIKE.