if someone takes the time to help you please assign them points

[Richard Darling]

The main point made so far, that could be be acted on is:

The HP ITRC team makes assigning points an easier task for forum users.

One thing that has not been brought up is that we are saving HP alot of time and money by not placing calls on our contracts, and I am sure that they appreciate that...

Hopefully someone from there is monitoring this...

Richard

[Bruce Regittko_1]

Hi,

I agree that punitive actions should be avoided. Instead, I prefer shame and guilt.

One thing that may have some positive effect would be for a screen to be presented to a user when they attempt to post a new question. This screen would have links to their previous queries along with a summary of points assigned. One more layer, I know, but perhaps the gentle reminder would help.

One other feature mentioned earlier that I would like to see added would be a form that the user could use to assign point en masse, rather than on each individual response.

--Bruce

[Wodisch]

Hello Richard and the other interested persons,
my 0.02$:
- If we cannot make the "users" award points to the
answers, how about getting rid of that paradigm?
- If we do have threads like this one, why not change
the forums to allow "point-less" postings?
Especially like this one!
- I do NOT like the force/shame/guilt approach at all
and beeing a member for quiet some time I still DO
learn a lot, even from fewer postings then before ;-)
So: why not have some "mediator" or "forum-master"
assiging points to "open" replies, deletion of the
"unneccessary" or "worthless" replies, and so on?
if they can afford that more time?
- There is still the "HPADM" mailing list DutchWorks.nl,
where lots of us participate for many years now,
without "points" or even naming the most valuable
answers, but posting a "summary"!
- Could we not try awarding points to most valuable
answers in the DB already? So somebody with a
reply beeing helpful for hundreds of us would get
the "bigger" hat, not somebody with a lot ot nonesense
answers?
HTH,
Wodisch

[Richard Darling]

I think it is time to wrap this one up... The only point brought up that "Shayne & CO." could do something about is making the assignment of points easier...

oh, one other good point was brought up - people should use the ITRC search before posting a message - when I first started using the forum I would post a question immediately -kind of knee-jerk reaction...now I get most of my questions answered by doing a search.

Thanks for everyone's feedback on this one; and even more importantly for solving some difficult problems I have had at work...
Richard