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Sandee Cohen
Sandee Cohen
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March 20, 2009
Question

Little things annoy me

  • March 20, 2009
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b Points

I don't like is this concept of "points". I really don't like the competitive energy of those points. I've been to non-business forums where people award each other "karma." It's stupid and can be petty when someone has more karma than others.

I have no idea who gives points to others, but I don't like them.

I wouldn't mind a record of when joined or how many posts, but I think that belongs in a profile, not next to the responses.

b Answering posts

Who marks a message as answered? As mentioned before, the OP could state the post is answered, but others could find a problem.

Will there be a way for the Forum Moderator to amend an answered post as "With Note"?

b Sorting the messages

Will there be a way to sort according to the OP? If not, it seems a waste of a column.

I'm sure I will have other issues that I'll add later.
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    Ramón G Castañeda
    Ramón G Castañeda
    Inspiring
    March 27, 2009
    Dave B,

    Whoever the truck you are, do keep your day job. With your lack of originality and imagination, you'd starve as a free lancer.

    The hosts don't need your advice. They have banned me when they saw fit.

    Others are banned for life and they just keep coming back with an endless succession of new identities, one after the other.

    Besides, you're a whitewashed sepulcher, a sanctimonious hypocrite that just posted here with no other purpose than to add fuel to the fire. :P
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    Anonymous
    March 27, 2009
    Gerd- He (Ramon) won't (rest). These forums are their life. They are like resident vampires. They never sleep. And they never leave any response unsaid. And, lo you have an opinion not on target with theirs. Their advice will spin on a dime to become an attack. Just watch the response to this post. I do wish the Moderators would suspend their posting privileges. Their torture would be reading without being able to respond.
    joziG
    joziG
    Known Participant
    March 27, 2009
    I rest my case.
    Ramón G Castañeda
    Ramón G Castañeda
    Inspiring
    March 27, 2009
    There are no "moderators" here. There are forum hosts, and the hosts are mature, capable individuals perfectly able to do their jobs without prompts from bystanders who only add fuel to the fire.
    joziG
    joziG
    Known Participant
    March 27, 2009
    This thread is simply beyond belief!

    Isn't it about time a moderator stepped in?
    David_Powers
    David_Powers
    Inspiring
    March 27, 2009
    > I'll wager tho that most new users who come here for a problem and then leave, won't even notice the "answered" icon.

    The "answered" icon is shown in the topic list as an indication that the OP considers the thread closed. Inside the thread itself, a tiny gold star is placed alongside the number of the post chosen as the answer. It's so tiny, most people will never realize it's there, never mind what it's for.

    I'm not in favour of the OP marking questions as answered and awarding points, and I agree there is a danger that less than optimal answers will be chosen by inexperienced posters. However, the way in which the system has been implemented makes it far less of a problem than most people are suggesting.
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    Anonymous
    March 27, 2009
    You are not doing your side any favours Ramón!
    Ramón G Castañeda
    Ramón G Castañeda
    Inspiring
    March 27, 2009
    A ridiculous expression of hubris worthy of someone with a name like Ian.
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    _Ian_Burton_
    Participating Frequently
    March 27, 2009
    SDA,
    I apologize to you on behalf of the children who play in this thread. But, as you remarked about older/wiser, there is hope for them. Perhaps some of them will learn to laugh at themselves and join others in noting their own odd behaviour.

    Thank you for your kind support of my remarks.
    Cheers
    Ian
    Ramón G Castañeda
    Ramón G Castañeda
    Inspiring
    March 27, 2009
    SDA,
    >@Ramon What was your point again ?

    My point was to tell you that you're an imbecile. * It doesn't take an IQ above room temperature, in degrees Celsius, to figure that out, but it's your privilege to ask if you do in fact need elucidation of my remark.

    * That was in return to your own use of the epithet.
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