DCrake
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Started reading this thread with interest at the first but then got tired and scanned though the second and thrid page. However, one point it did pick up on was the reputation aspect. More directly giving someone rep points for something that origninated in the watercooler. Why would anyone want to increase a persons rep for something said there? To me you should only get rep points for technical issues, not because you told a good joke or agreed with someones political preferences.
IMHO I feel that rep points are an indicator of the persons goodstanding and the ability to offer solutions, mayt be not straigth away but by doggedly teasing out the actual issue from the OP.
Conversely, I have offered excelent solutions (well I think so) to users and have not received a thankyou, kiss my ass, anything. This only disuades me from helping them in the future. As Bob mentioned people who want to, and attempt to, cannot due to their status, but you can see that they have at least attempted to. So in fairness the current score may well be 20-30% less than the actual. Not that this makes any difference to me. The only time I look at the score is when I use the User CP to test for replies.
IMHO I feel that rep points are an indicator of the persons goodstanding and the ability to offer solutions, mayt be not straigth away but by doggedly teasing out the actual issue from the OP.
Conversely, I have offered excelent solutions (well I think so) to users and have not received a thankyou, kiss my ass, anything. This only disuades me from helping them in the future. As Bob mentioned people who want to, and attempt to, cannot due to their status, but you can see that they have at least attempted to. So in fairness the current score may well be 20-30% less than the actual. Not that this makes any difference to me. The only time I look at the score is when I use the User CP to test for replies.