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JayJhabrix
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June 13, 2009
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Question Answered & over enthusiastic hosts / moderators

  • June 13, 2009
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Apart from this whole mess of abuse report and perfectly innocent posts getting deleted, we also have the problem of hosts moderators deciding on the poster's behalf if questions have been answered! Crikey!

I posted a query in the DW forum. Ploughed my way through the search... found a couple of solutions from a particular ACE and posted those findings back with my comments on whether they were working or not.

My third post (including the OP) was to the tune that on a quick and dirty test the last solution seemed to be working and describing what it was doing. No way, as far as i was concerned was the problem completely resolved.

Lo and behold! This morning i see the thread marked answered! "Ididn't do that", says me. Open it and at the top it says, "Possibly answered". The moderator has a comment that as i seem to have found the answer he's marking it 'Possibly answered'. Freaked! But politely asked said moderator to kindly unmark it and i would mark it when i was satisfied.

What is going on? And, the thread was only started last night, my time. It's not that it's been hanging around for days or weeks.I'm still hoping that the guy whose tips i followed would look in. Seeing it answered he mayn't bother.

This whole Question / Answer excreta should be scrapped ASAP.

JJ

PS: Just checked and the host / moderator has had the courtesy to revert the post to 'Unanswered'. However, it shouldn't be happening in the first place.

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    Correct answer Kath-H

    Well OK, but we still don't need no stinkin' point system.


    Don't say that! I'm on the home straight to become a 2-blobber, bought a new frock, booked a hairdo and manicure and I'm working on the banner to put up across my drive so the neighbours will know!

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    Anonymous
    June 22, 2009

    Well It seems that my dislike of zeno's heavy handed hosting has gotten my threads deleted. It seems those iron curtain habits never change.

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    JayJhabrixAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 22, 2009

    As we keep saying... And, in the old webx i don't remember the hosts being so heavy handed???

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    Anonymous
    June 22, 2009

    JayJhabrix wrote:

    As we keep saying... And, in the old webx i don't remember the hosts being so heavy handed???

    to paraphrase: anonymity breeds contempt

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    Anonymous
    June 20, 2009

    they are trying to force the star points issue. Instead of accepting the fact that it is useless the mods have probably been told to make it look like the Answered star and point system are working.

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    Anonymous
    June 20, 2009

    The boss stated to the young executive that he wants him to correct the problem of people not being helped with correct answers in the forums. The simple fix is to mark everything, as much as possible, as corrected to make things look good and to get the boss of the executives back. I have seen simular situations corrected like that before. 

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    JayJhabrixAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 20, 2009

    Just wish some of these over enthusiastic moderators wouldn't go zipping through forums marking questions "Assumed Answered". Even if it seems answered, it's the OP's thread and his/her right to choose to mark it answered or not. And, what's the big deal if it's left unanswered? Do the forum moderators/hosts want to see a nice line of tick marks?

    Just wish they'd do away with this whole 'Correct Answer' and points business....

    Phillip M Jones
    Phillip M Jones
    Inspiring
    June 20, 2009

    Its my understanding that the possibly answered feature is hard wired in. Even if all someone does is repply "hi", or "." .

    It set to trigger this as soon as someone  gives any reply.

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    JayJhabrixAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 20, 2009

    PjonesCET wrote:

    Its my understanding that the possibly answered feature is hard wired in. Even if all someone does is repply "hi", or "." .

    It set to trigger this as soon as someone  gives any reply.

    Phillip,

    no one's talking abou the hard-wired "Possibly Answered" feature. It's forum hosts over-stepping themselves to mark posts "Assumed Answered" which shows with a 'tick' in the forum topic list.

    MichaelKazlow
    MichaelKazlow
    Legend
    June 14, 2009

    Alas, it seems any reply to a first post sets a flag for possibly answered. Only a OP can set a post to answered. A host can only set a thread to assumed answered-which is rarely done by moderators in the forums I visit.

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    JayJhabrixAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 14, 2009

    MikeKazlow wrote:

    Alas, it seems any reply to a first post sets a flag for possibly answered. Only a OP can set a post to answered. A host can only set a thread to assumed answered-which is rarely done by moderators in the forums I visit.

    Mike,

    Mea Culpa... i misquoted... it wasn't 'Possibly', it was, "Assumed Answered". As to the second half of your second sentence, that's much better... but i think only the OP should have the right to mark it a question any kind of Answered. If he/she chooses not to mar it, so be it. In any case, an answer that's right for you, may not be right for me. Subsequent to my complaint, and removal of the tick mark, i've had a couple of other interesting and relevant posts and solutions from experienced DW users. I doubt if they'd have looked in if the topic had the 'tick' mark.

    All of the above is even more reason to do away with the "Correct Aswer" nonsense.

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