It does ... but postcount is only 1 of the factors having an influence on my initial "evaluation" of the trustworthiness of the "advice" given.[Dimetrodon] wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 2:29 am While there was an older topic about this, but the last post was in 2008.
My question: Does post count affect your decision to trust support advice on this board? Would you be more likely to listen to someone with a higher post count?
But a newcomer usually doesn't have the experience with phpBB which would allow proper assessment of the quality of the answers given.[Dimetrodon] wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 2:29 amHonestly, I'm more inclined to believe those who's answers make more sense as opposed to a higher post count.
I think a better system would be one where a user in need of support can mark the reply as the answer with the Community Team being able to override this if the post turns out to be dangerous advice or something of that nature. All of that totaling up to a number of answers on the user's mini-profile.warmweer wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 6:04 amBut a newcomer usually doesn't have the experience with phpBB which would allow proper assessment of the quality of the answers given.[Dimetrodon] wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 2:29 amHonestly, I'm more inclined to believe those who's answers make more sense as opposed to a higher post count.
Seeing the postcount is easy ... but reading some of the (support) posts will give a lot more information about the poster's "credibility".
Basically a "Thanks" system[Dimetrodon] wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 2:36 pm I think a better system would be one where a user in need of support can mark the reply as the answer with the Community Team being able to override this if the post turns out to be dangerous advice or something of that nature. All of that totaling up to a number of answers on the user's mini-profile.
Yes, something similar to that nature. The only difference would be only enabled in the support forums. "Voting" on posts in other forums such as GD or phpBB Discussion should be disabled, as they're not support forums.david63 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 2:40 pmBasically a "Thanks" system[Dimetrodon] wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 2:36 pm I think a better system would be one where a user in need of support can mark the reply as the answer with the Community Team being able to override this if the post turns out to be dangerous advice or something of that nature. All of that totaling up to a number of answers on the user's mini-profile.
I keep forgetting I need to rewrite this thing.[Dimetrodon] wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 2:49 pm This is not a new idea either, as Kailey written a 3.2.x extension that does this: https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/exte ... est_answer
You may not have to. It seems to be working on the latest version of phpBB.
Which is all very well if all users who have had a positive (or negative I suppose) experience and actually come back to to say the issue is solved. There are many thousands of topics on this site that have resulted in a fix but have never had the added as the OP never came back to say it was resolved. This can lead to skewed results and in my opinion is unnecessary on this site.[Dimetrodon] wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 2:36 pmwhere a user in need of support can mark the reply as the answer
There's additional functionality I want to include, and most of the extension will require a rewrite for it.[Dimetrodon] wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 10:28 pm You may not have to. It seems to be working on the latest version of phpBB.
While your concern is valid, I don't think there is any system that is immune to skewing. I have experience working with phpBB for instance, but I am just learning how to actually code in php. ie. I'm a complete novice, but there are people who are fluent in php and have more "under the hood" knowledge of phpBB than I do, but who have a lower post count than I do. If we were to go by post count, that wouldn't really be a 100% accurate depiction of our skill sets either. Only it doesn't have any measurement (no matter how flawed) of how useful our posts have been.