On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 08:48:04 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Jim Henderson wrote:
But there also comes (thinking out loud) the evaluation of the actual contribution in the forums. Someone who posts hundreds of messages that aren't helpful isn't as valuable as someone who posts 20 good answers. Measuring quality vs. quantity is a long-standing forum issue (not just for OSF, either - Kim, the guy who runs our sponsor's forums, has been dealing with that issue almost as long as I've known him.) There are also other forums out there, like forosuse.es for the Spanish-speaking audience, or alionet's French openSUSE forums).
Also thinking out loud - hasn't this issue been tackled quite well by stackoverflow, serverfault et al ?
Through the use of reputation points, yes, to an extent - it's a peer based system. The trick is to manage people trying to game the system (which does happen). I'm not sure how Stackoverflow handles that. There are some controls in vBulletin (as I recall) to limit the number of reputation points you can assign. We also currently have the forum configured to not allow anyone who isn't staff to assign negative reputation, because personalities clash and that clouds the objectivity of a user who's angry about an answer they got (and we get that through cultural/language misunderstandings not infrequently - it's not common, but it does happen). Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org