Question answered?

I've just noticed not many questions being marked 'answered' in the ID forum

This is common in the Premiere fora. I think that most posters just want a quick answer, and most never see the new little icons, regarding their posts. Most do not ever bother telling the forum what worked, or did not, so later people with the same problem will come, post and reply, "hey, what was the solution?" Unfortuntely, most of us do not have a clue which of our suggestions worked, or did not, and whether the OP is editing happily, or has scrapped their Mac, or PC, and move on to another NLE.

I try to say "thanks for the followup," when they do report, but there are not many of those either.

Just observtions from a few of the fora.

Hunt

Going all the way back through the Illustrator Forum, it seems that the overall average answered quotient is about 1/3, ranging from about 1/5 to 1/2, the latter being a maximum. This has been fairy constant since shortly after the fair forums, I am afraid. Possibly, we are beginning to see a faint decline, but nothing decisive yet. And even recently there have been point giving urges and complaints.

Please forgive me, Kath.

In my observations it seems like the users are not using  "answered" and giving points for correct or helpful answers as much as they did when the forum first started.  A lot of people would say horary! 

But many OP also do not give any acknowledgement that the posts helped solve problem either.  So one never knows if the answers helped or OP never came back to site after posting the problem.

Kath I've noticed the same thing, and even brought it up as another reason to do away with the stupid point system.

Kath-H wrote: I've just noticed not many questions being marked 'answered' in the ID forum so I counted - only 8 out of the first 60. Not sure if a similar situation applies in other forums (I'm not quite sad enough to count them all), but I just wonder if people don't understand the system, don't like it, or aren't getting decent answers. Anyone notice anything similar?

I don't mean to be smart Alicky. But where have you been, over 3/4 of the Forum Comments about Points system and the marked question answered system, this was in the first month alone.

Many feel that their should be no question system period, anywhere. Its misleading. What one may call a correct answer many say unless the answer is text book perfect and textbook quoted its not only worth it, It may actually be incorrect. Just because an answer or explaination from one person worked for him or her, doesn't mean its the proper answer.

Heck I even tried to defend the system and was made fun of and jeered for doing so. They think this is one of the things that is causing slowdowns and bugs.

As I've only asked one or two questions I've used it.