Admin - Call for forum enhancement requests

Good "karma" or whatever it is called often work out well.

It's the negative votes that tends to result in big fights. Especially since it quickly becomes obvious that some people use them in a fight, i.e. A and B have an argument, and B uses negative votes on A:s comments. Only A and B online at the time with rights to vote, so very transparent.

In a forum where everyone may give any number of + votes (but of course only one + vote/post) you get a situation where most posts gets one or more +. So the difference between a good and a bad answer is zero or one votes contra 10 or 40 votes. But you don't get any "revenge" involved in the voting - best revenge anyone can do is to avoid to vote. But their missing vote will not make much of a difference.

The thing with votes is that they should help a reader without creating badwill from intentional punishments. http://www.8052.com sometimes (has been some time since last I saw it now) suffers from voting as personal agendas. But it has happened that posts have received "Answer is wrong" just because someone don't like a perfectly correct answer. But problems with negative votes are common everywhere.

Good "karma" or whatever it is called often work out well.

It's the negative votes that tends to result in big fights. Especially since it quickly becomes obvious that some people use them in a fight, i.e. A and B have an argument, and B uses negative votes on A:s comments. Only A and B online at the time with rights to vote, so very transparent.

In a forum where everyone may give any number of + votes (but of course only one + vote/post) you get a situation where most posts gets one or more +. So the difference between a good and a bad answer is zero or one votes contra 10 or 40 votes. But you don't get any "revenge" involved in the voting - best revenge anyone can do is to avoid to vote. But their missing vote will not make much of a difference.

The thing with votes is that they should help a reader without creating badwill from intentional punishments. http://www.8052.com sometimes (has been some time since last I saw it now) suffers from voting as personal agendas. But it has happened that posts have received "Answer is wrong" just because someone don't like a perfectly correct answer. But problems with negative votes are common everywhere.

"It's the negative votes that tends to result in big fights"

True.

But it'd be really useful to come up with some kind of "non-judgemental" way of flagging posts without having to repeatedly re-post the same basic information; eg:

* There is insufficient information in this post to permit an answer;

* This question is answered in existing documentation (Manual/Datasheet/etc)

* This is a 3rd-party question - please contact the 3rd party (eg, chipmaker)

* Please don't try to cheat on your homework by posting it on this forum

* This post is factually incorrect.

etc, etc,...

Preferably, "flagging" the post should result in a detailed explanation being sent to the poster's registered email address.

In the case of "factually incorrect", the person setting the "flag" should be required to state why.