Points Award Scheme

uxbod · Guru Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 474 Location: UK

Hi:

I use the HP ITRC Forums a lot for work and one of its features is the ability to assign points to a responders answer. The more points awarded to a user means they go up the user status rankings

Could this be implemented? Would people be interested in such a feature? Take a look here to see how it works http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/FamilyHome/1,,117,00.html

jimlynch11 · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 3:04 pm Post subject:

iv seen things like this before, and it seems pretty effective...

however i think this would involve some dramatic changes to the phpBB system, and im not sure its something within the realm of the board maintainers to make these changes. perhaps you can make the suggestion to the people at phpbb.com

ebrostig · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 6:23 pm Post subject:

What would such a system achieve?

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uxbod · Guru Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 474 Location: UK

Just the personal satisfaction.

zhenlin · Veteran Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Posts: 1361

That, and the readers ability to assess whether or not to trust an answer based on statistics about post usefulness.

puggy · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 1:43 pm Post subject:

Rating the post is an ok idea although I bet I could never be bothered doing that! Rating the users based on that though doesn't seem so clever as some of the best answers on the forums come from people who rarely post but give outrageously good answers. Unless your proposing an averaging system of some sort.
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pilla · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 2:18 pm Post subject:

If we don't allow points to be awarded for posts in OTW, it would make a nice scheme to detect "guruness".
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puggy · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 2:26 pm Post subject:

ebrostig · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 10:49 pm Post subject:

Only from the support Forums then I guess...

Anyhow, wouldn't it be more prudent to actually consider the answer rather than a rating?

A person can be new to our Forums but have been a kernel developer for 7 years. His or her answer may be a lot more to the point than a person with high rating even though they would display a low rating. IMHO a useless system

And, it would have to be implemented by the phpBB developers too

Is it btw?

(edit) I just checked the link given above to the HP board and the first thread I looked at shows that this system is useless. HP-UX C2 Trusted thread has an entry from P. Walleck who is unassigned, i.e no points and he gave the correct answer to the question.

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puggy · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 11:07 pm Post subject:

sisyphus · Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2003 5:16 pm Post subject:

Points systems (self moderation) can work well. Where it's really useful though, is in reducing the load on site moderators. If sufficient people are willing to get involved (not a problem here seemingly), then points based systems become irrelevant.

Additionally, they have a habit of being abused. Over at Kuro5hin, there is endless discussion of modbombing etc. and the trollish sport of swapping "5s" while simultaneously writing the worst sort of drivel (which would normally see them pushed into the darkness).

phpBB has its own charm in not threading and not user moderating since it guarentees that posts have as far as possible, equal weight amongst users. Abuse is trodden on by moderators and all are happy. It's not exactly free speech, but that's the price you pay for simplicity.
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watersb · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2003 11:49 am Post subject:

masseya · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2003 4:57 pm Post subject:

Tux12Fun · Apprentice Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 156

Hi,

I think, it would be nice if users could rate the Threads with Stars so that other users could see, that this Topic
solved a Problem and helped at many Systems.

NathanZachary · Moderator Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 2605

Nice idea in theory. I just have two: 1) given the heavily modified verison of phpBB2 used, it might be quite difficult to enable a thread rating system; 2) users might not rate threads all the time, which could potentially give the illusion that some helpful threads are not helpful. For those two reasons, I'm not sure that it would work out too well here. However, let's see what other users think.

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bunder · Bodhisattva Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 5934

merged some posts.
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