Am Dienstag, 14. Februar 2006 07:04 schrieb houghi:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 11:20:57PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > As I've mentioned in my first posting I would like to have some kind of
> > report that wiill help novice users/subscribers to find their way.
> > Information about the most active writers is one of this, a rating might
> > also be helpfull. Plus a lot of other things which may be discussed.
> >
> > And having a statistik like David offered was helpfull on suse-linux de
> > and I would say having something like this for opensuse would be helpfull
> > too.
>
> Why would it be of importance to people to see who are the people who post
> the most? Also: on what rules are you going to rate people? Look at /.
> where posting that should have been `+5 Insightfull` become `-1 troll`.
>
> I rather have people make up their own minds of who they think is usefull
> to them. If you want to have stats, fine. Run a program at home and do
> with it as you please.
>
> houghi
As I am such a "novice user/subscriber" I take the liberty of stating my
opinion here and I'd say that any kind of rating is absolutely useless for
me.
It doesn't give me any help when searching for an opinion or for a technical
solution. The amount of post of somebody doesn't say much: could be, he/she
is really very actively participating and interesting, but could also be,
that it's just somebody thinking it's very important to throw in one's two
pennies worth ("seinen Senf dazu geben", translated by leo.org...) about
everything.
Good search tools would help me much more.
The only kind of "rating" that was helpful for me till now, was, when people
who received help gave a short answer like "this worked" or so. Then I know,
that I could use this solution if I have the same problem.
In mailing lists as well as in forums I often see solutions posted but nothing
follows. Then I don't know, if it was really helpful or not. When nothing
follows I tend to believe, that the proposed solution did not work and the
questioner just went somewhere else for help. It wouldn't make any difference
to me whether the poster of the proposed solution is a "5-Star-poster" or
not.
So I personally don't care if there is a rating or not; if there is one, I
just ignore it.
Daniel
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