WebStyles Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 We are constantly trying to improve PHP Freaks and these forums, so feel free to go to the PHPFreaks Comments/Suggestions board and point out anything you'd like to see different! Just a little suggestion: would be kind of cool to have a little 'I Agree' button under each post (kind of like what yahoo answers has with the voting system). Avoids a lot of unnecessary text and quickly lets the original posted know what the community's preferred answer is. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/240867-i-agree-button/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 Hmm... but majority vote isn't necessarily a measure of quality or correctness. I'm not convinced that this is the solution. Hypothetical scenario: User A asks a question, user B responds with a half-decent answer and gets 5 votes for that. Now user C provides a much better answer (let's just for the sake of argument suppose that we by some objective standard can determine that). User A returns to his post and observes that user B has 5 votes and user C has 0, indicating that the answer provided by user B is better, contrary to reality. Now what? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/240867-i-agree-button/#findComment-1237218 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WebStyles Posted July 1, 2011 Author Share Posted July 1, 2011 Good point. Maybe restrict the voting to people who have a certain amount of posts (therefor more experience). or, in each post, a member can only vote on 1 answer, therefor if I voted A, but later decided B was a better option, I simply vote B and my previous vote gets transferred, and removed from A. Just a thought. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/240867-i-agree-button/#findComment-1237221 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cssfreakie Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 the amount of posts wont say anything but the amount of posts made. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/240867-i-agree-button/#findComment-1237227 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WebStyles Posted July 1, 2011 Author Share Posted July 1, 2011 depends on your point of view, but a person who has 2000 posts, (doesn't matter if they were questions or answers) MUST have learnt quite a lot, otherwise he (or she) is basically a complete moron. Or maybe just consider answers as valid posts counts... I'm just throwing ideas out, but as with any new feature/change, things have to be brainstormed until they end up making sense (or not) Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/240867-i-agree-button/#findComment-1237230 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 I'm just throwing ideas out, but as with any new feature/change, things have to be brainstormed until they end up making sense (or not) Sure, it's always good getting multiple points of views on an issue. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/240867-i-agree-button/#findComment-1237234 Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 Hmm... but majority vote isn't necessarily a measure of quality or correctness. I'm not convinced that this is the solution. Hypothetical scenario: User A asks a question, user B responds with a half-decent answer and gets 5 votes for that. Now user C provides a much better answer (let's just for the sake of argument suppose that we by some objective standard can determine that). User A returns to his post and observes that user B has 5 votes and user C has 0, indicating that the answer provided by user B is better, contrary to reality. Now what No system is ever going to be 100%. Always gonna be some exceptions. But IMO it works pretty damn nicely on sites that do implelent a post voting system. Look at SO Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/240867-i-agree-button/#findComment-1237257 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 Actually, speed is a factor on StackOverflow. If you're late to the party, your chance of getting many upvotes is diminished. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/240867-i-agree-button/#findComment-1237271 Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 Actually, speed is a factor on StackOverflow. If you're late to the party, your chance of getting many upvotes is diminished. I do admit it is pretty fast paced there, and it is hard to get a well thought out answer in before others are posted and voted. However, from my experience there, the best answers do indeed tend to have the most votes Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/240867-i-agree-button/#findComment-1237309 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WebStyles Posted July 1, 2011 Author Share Posted July 1, 2011 how about subscribing people who have already voted to the forum, so they get a notification when a new solution is posted? That way they can go back and change their vote if the newer solution is better. This idea about 'voting' came to me, because there are many questions that have more than 1 solution (hell, in programming, there are normally many solutions to each problem)... or.. the votes could be categorized, like: simple solution, unsecure solution, secure solution, etc... (gotta think about this better) (sometimes, from a programming point of view, if I'm just doing script to test stuff for myself, I'm not really interested in security issues, as the links won't even be public, other times, security is my main concern.) Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/240867-i-agree-button/#findComment-1237311 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 I like the idea. Like CV said, SO does it quite nicely and it works well. Hmm... but majority vote isn't necessarily a measure of quality or correctness. I'm not convinced that this is the solution. Sure, I agree with you, but it's better than nothing. If I came from Google it would help me greatly if I could go to the most popular post/answer because the majority of the time it's going to be the best solution. If not, oh well, you're back to where you were before. how about subscribing people who have already voted to the forum, so they get a notification when a new solution is posted? That way they can go back and change their vote if the newer solution is better. I think there are too many posts for that. It would be a bit chaotic. or.. the votes could be categorized, like: simple solution, unsecure solution, secure solution, etc... (gotta think about this better) Too complex. Just keep it simple. You have a question, vote what's the best all around answer. Like I said above, people searching for a question are benefited best from a simple 'this reply is the most popular answer'. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/240867-i-agree-button/#findComment-1237337 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinM1 Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 Are we talking just upvotes? Or being able to select one post as the answer? A combination of the two? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/240867-i-agree-button/#findComment-1237349 Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 Right. As I mentioned, there is no 100% solution. Even if we were to have experts go in and hand-pick answers...even then, due to the nature of the interwebs, those answers are subject to become outdated later. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't try something that has some margin of error. We can plainly see that in practice, most of the time, the most popular or highest voted answers are indeed good answers. Are we talking just upvotes? Or being able to select one post as the answer? A combination of the two? AFAIK we're talking about upvotes, like how it is on StackOverflow. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/240867-i-agree-button/#findComment-1237350 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinM1 Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 Are we talking just upvotes? Or being able to select one post as the answer? A combination of the two? AFAIK we're talking about upvotes, like how it is on StackOverflow. How hard would it be to implement both, like with SO? Having the OP of a thread select an answer could automatically trigger the "Topic Solved' mod. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/240867-i-agree-button/#findComment-1237357 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikachu2000 Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 Having the OP of a thread select an answer could automatically trigger the "Topic Solved' mod. Oh, I really like that idea! Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/240867-i-agree-button/#findComment-1237362 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenway Posted July 2, 2011 Share Posted July 2, 2011 Having the OP of a thread select an answer could automatically trigger the "Topic Solved' mod. Oh, I really like that idea! +1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/240867-i-agree-button/#findComment-1237705 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 That wouldn't be too hard to make. So basically positive only karma + custom mod for select an answer & trigger solved? Does the selected answer get any extra "karma/rep" points? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/240867-i-agree-button/#findComment-1237786 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinM1 Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 Maybe a couple of points. We need some way to make the answer post stand out in a thread, Maybe the current topic solved icon somewhere and/or a green border around the answer's text box or something. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/240867-i-agree-button/#findComment-1237792 Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 Basically it sounds like people want like what SO does, except nobody has mentioned downvoting replies Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/240867-i-agree-button/#findComment-1237859 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinM1 Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 Downvoting may be more tricky given our newbie friendly stance. Positive reinforcement only may be the best route to go. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/240867-i-agree-button/#findComment-1237871 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 Downvoting may be more tricky given our newbie friendly stance. Positive reinforcement only may be the best route to go. Agreed. That's one thing I hate on SO is when people downvote you just so their answer gets more rep. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/240867-i-agree-button/#findComment-1237892 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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