Assigning Points

[Sarah Mokwana]

Hi "Forumers"

I think we'll all agree that this forum is one of its kind, where we learn and teach each other in the name of HP-UX. The same apply to assigning points, we need to assign points to those individuals who go out the way in trying to help us through difficult times of solving probelms we encounter in our day-to-day work.
So for this forum to be more interesting we need to assign those points!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you

[eran maor]

Hi Sarah

you are rigth about assiging point but the most important is to help all the pepole that have problem with there system .

i agree that it nice also if the pepole in the forum assig point , but the most impotant is to help each other .

[Stefan Schulz]

The points are a nice thing. The are kind of a reward for those who answer the questions.

But more important they are a indicator how helpful a answer was.

Therefore i ask everybody to please assign points to the answers you got.

Hmm ... Sarah, what about this "This member has assigned points to 14 of 17 responses to his/her questions." in your profile ;-)

Regards Stefan

[Michael Tully]

Hi Sarah,

Firstly the forum is a place where System Administrators can gain knowledge and assistance from other System Administrators that may have a wider range of experience on certain topic. Even when we have given a response to a certain question, somebody else may have an alternative solution just as good, where the first person can also learn. Assigning points is not the be all and end all but it is more like a reward for the advice given.

[Magdi KAMAL]

Hi Sara,

As Said before,

Assignig points is a good approach for Evaluating responses, and showing which fully solve problems.

Most important is the contribution of people all over the world to solve problems of somebody which you don't know him ( or her ) !

If Economists world wide could have the same approach, alot of misery could be avoided.

This forum allows us to build a virtual family and hopping we can have a meeting in HP seminars ... One day !

Magdi

[paul courry]

Points are the payment by which the people who ask questions contribute to the forum.

Otherwise they are just takers and if the forum becomes overburdened with those it will collapse.

(Memo to HP: where is your contribution to the *people* of the forum? I believe you stopped contributing on 1/1/01)

[Sachin Patel]

Hi Sarah,
I agree with all of above (to help other) but in my view if you assign a appropriate point to answer then when someone(like me) is searching for that kind of questions he/she will know that that answer can or can't solve his/her problem.
So in sort Assigning Point is very important.

Sachin

[someone_4]

Hello,
I have been pretty active in the forum latley. And I have almost hit the 250 mark. Its funny because I dont know who gave me points or not because most of my answers are
not 8 or above.So to me the points are nice but for me it would be better for me if I give an answer and it didnt work. That the person who gave the right answer tell me why it didnt work and why they would go another route. Another things is that and also people give answers and we dont know if that helped then with the issue or not. No points no comment no nothing. It would be nice to know if it worked you know? But that goes along with the point system.

Richard

[Rita C Workman]

Points are the means for rewarding the responder (and affirmation is a way of showing both courtesy and a way of saying Thanks) and letting them know how their suggestion worked for you. So it helps both the giver and the receiver...now and for future readers. That's why assigning the 8 and above is so important, because future readers know there is a 'solution' at this post. All to many posts, with 10 point answers, have nothing assigned to them.....so future readers may think the answer wasn't 'The Solution' and it was.

Now for Richard, who said he wished he knew who gave him points and if it worked...well you can click check on many of your posting by:
Search and you'll see what you got points on .. or ...
Click on the Forums Page/All forum members (on right below 25 top contrib) and go down to your name and click...it will show you your contributions too. Just remember Richard, your answer may not have been the solution to this persons issue...but it may be the answer someone else who read it needed. Congratulations on your 250....Just 2250 points to go and you get the crown !

Regards,
Rita

[Mark Vollmers]

hello-

Just an additional quick comment from the peanut gallery-

I agree with the stuff said about the points (both sides). The important thing is that we are here to help each other, but the points are really nice as well. Personally, I hold off assigning points until the problem is solved (so I have a fair assesement of what worked and what didn't). As far as knowing if we are helping solve the problems (per Richards post), I like to reply when everything is fixed just to let people know what I ended up doing, what was wrong, etc. Not that this is the best way to do it, but I know that you can find a lot of posts when you search for topics with a lot of suggestions, and it is nice to have a summary (in my opinion).

BTW- for anyone from HP reading, it would be nice when searching to have posts with magic answers tagged as such so that we can know ones with successful resolutions

Mark

[linuxfan]

Hi,

Like always there are two sides of a coin.
I am sure a lot can be said about if its good or bad about assigning points, I remember there was a discussion about this sometime last year, couldn't find that link but here are my thoughts, Ofcourse its good for people to assign points, its sort of appreciating the effors put in by other people.
Like Richard said, even if the users don't assign points, they should atleast indicate (like in a SUMMARY) as to what worked best for them(for future users) and like Mark said some people wait till the end to decide what worked for them to assign points but most of the times it ends up unassigned (because they are working on other problems).
Just my $0.02.

-Regards
I am RU

[David Navarro]

Hi, Sarah
I agree with you, points is very important. Is just a game, an aditional motivation. I'm agree also that real important think is help other people, and today other people have problems but tomorrow I'm sure you will be in problems too.
I'm sure that this forum without points would not be the successful that it has.

[John Bolene]

Points are a subtle device for the question answerers to keep the advice flowing.

Most times recognition by your peers is a much stronger incentive than dollars in your pocket.

[harry d brown jr]

This is just a bounce it back up post :-)

live free or die
harry

[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

If you dont like point system, at least write few lines at the end to tell us ( and futures) how you have solved your problem...

So you can help too.

[Dirk Fieremans]

Another advantage is that even so-called stupid questions get an answer. In other forums, if the question is 'stupid' or has already been answered, the standard reply is RTFM or something equally abusive.
This point-system invites people on the forum to stay polite and answer *every* question.

Dirk

[Tim D Fulford]

Sarah

Thanks for your post. I used to get rattled when I know I've answered someones question & get no recognition for it. I started to check if a user assigns points by looking in their profile. I've stopped this now.

I'm getting more & more like an old hippy saying things like "what goes around comes around". - Personally I ALWAYS assign points, sometimes it is late but I do get 'round to it

Tim

[Krishna Prasad]

Well.....I have to admit. If there wasn't a point system then I would not visit this site as much. I would most likly visit when I need an answer.

I guess I am the kind of person the "makers" of this site was thinking of when they came up with the point system.

[Ron Kinner]

Have to admit I like the points and the rabbits. Just started in the last couple of months and don't know all that much about HP-UX but my networking /cisco router background seems to give me an edge in the networking category and I've picked up 7 rabbits already this month.

The recognition makes it a lot more fun than the posting I do on the comp.dcom.sys.cisco newsgroup.

Ron

[Wodisch]

Hello Sarah,

the point system serves two purposes for me:
- it is fun to collect them, and get the so-called "head-jewellry" (as one of our beloved queens coined it ;-) - that's the "reply" part of it
- the rabbit threads attract me, as I usually can learn something there - this for the "lurker" (read: reader) part of it
- and finally as the one posting a problem or question it is both, the nice way of saying thanks, and of telling the repliers and the the others which answer did help

I have to admit that I am not that active any more on the mailing lists "HPADM" (kind of the ancestor of the "hp-ux" forum) and "OVFORUM" (dito for the "management" forums), not because they do not deal points, but because it is so much more fun here at the forums!

Just my $0.002,
Wodisch
PS: Ramesh: I think, I am, too :-) [if it was no pun, ignore this

[John Bolene]

Just my $0.002,
Wodisch
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What an undervalued statement, worth at least 2 cents, not 2 mills.

Course it depends on what currency you are using but the $ signifies dollars and cents.

[harry d brown jr]

Dirk, I agree that other areas are and can be very "trying". A few months ago I was searching thru an oracle "supposed help" site, and all the repliers did was tell the questioneer to RTFM, call them idiots, or some other form of bashing. Maybe it's a DBA thing, but I doubt it. We have had a few here do the same, but they were quickly squashed, and one was an HP person!

I have learned more about unix by using this site, than the previous 12 years of experience with unix (aix, dec's osf & ultrix, ncr's att unix & sys5, hpux, and linux).


live free or die
harry