Best Answers
Revised
The new format on a members page gives a bare hint of Best Answers.
There are some of us who enjoy helping others and keep bragging score in exchange.
That germinated a thought at least one considered worthy of the forum.
Why not make it a soft-switch the user can activate by them for their page ?
Like that age thing we lie about.....
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The new format on a members page gives a bare hint of Best Answers.
There are some of us who enjoy helping others and keep bragging score in exchange.
That germinated a thought at least one considered worthy of the forum.
Why not make it a soft-switch the user can activate by them for their page ?
Like that age thing we lie about.....
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In my opinion, they should just post a specific number of best answers and forget about the percentages. I never thought that a percentage was significant because there are MANY people that simply choose not to select best answers; and technically you become "penalized" in that percentage for every person (for whatever reason) that neglects to mark their questions as "answered".
No hint of %...
The % was not so accurate before. There was time I was sure a friend
was at 700 and sent a congratulation where he promptly informed me
he was 760 ! !
We get to hide our age or reveal it, Best Answer could be the same.
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I would agree that this percentage isn't an accurate way to assess the precise number of best answers that a person has (but it is a hint of the percentage... mine shows 20%). ;-)
As far as revealing the number of best answer's, I don't have a problem with that being optional (but I'd also be surprised if people chose to "hide" it, but I guess everyone has a different point of view). Also, when you go to anyone's page and click on the "Questions" link (on the new left hand menu options), you can see the questions that a person was awarded best answer, so in theory, anyone could page through and add them up (so I don't see the point of hiding the number).
The whole thing (imo) is a little weird. They should just show the specific number (optional or not), and ditch the percentage (since that doesn't mean much anyways).
This was where I went wrong. . . . . A
BTW, you could modify your topic (you and I would probably be the only ones that would know). ;-)
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Quick, think of suggesting something else!
Although I just came up with a couple ambitious "suggestions", so we'll see...