JackScott wrote:
If stacking the deck is what I need to do to make the rating systems work for me, then it's already a failure of an idea. Of course, I couldn't give an <expletive /> about whether people like me or not. Sure it's nice, but I'd rather do the right thing by the community than having a rating saying I suck up to people.
The problem on a technical forum is that the ratings quickly become skewed. Somebody posts their code, says it doesn't work, so you spend 3 hours fixing it for them. All very nice and happy, but it doesn't teach them how to do it themselves. Which is a huge problem. It will exacerbate the gimme teh codez problem. Which is a bad thing. Also you'll have people like Solar (who isn't a mod) get bad ratings for telling people exactly what he thinks, and everybody knows it's what the person needs to hear. And you can't protect Solar from bad ratings, since he's not a mod. And if you protect him, then you have to protect everybody else as well.
But theres already a sys like this operating on this forum, as in if you do not kiss MOD butt, you will bullied.
90% of the MODs on here are just sheep, without any back bone.
Most coders on here may not remember the last great mod on here: Pype.Clicker, now that guy was a true gentleman.
So your saying do not let the people decide, as they may come up with the wrong answer