Note to Those Posting Questions!

[Kimberly Ann]

Hi All,

I'd like to welcome everyone once again to the ITRC Forums, and at the same time point out one feature that has made these forums truly great in the way of community.

When you post a question and receive replies to your question, you can return to rate each response on a scale of 0-10. Rating replies recognizes your peers for their help, and alerts others of possible solutions to similar problems they may be having. Assiging points also encourages those longstanding members of the community to continue helping you!

If you login to the ITRC and you return to your Forums question, you???ll see a dropdown menu of points next to each reply. Click the menu arrow button and select the points you wish to assign to the reply. After you???ve rated each response, click the blue "submit" button at the bottom left of the page. The "unassigned" text will disappear from each response that you have rated.

PLEASE NOTE: You must be logged in to the ITRC points menu to appear next to each unrated reply.

** IMPORTANT:
You can rate (on a scale of 0-10) each response you have received. Please use the following scale when rating each response:

0: The answer was simply a point of clarification to my original question
1- 3: The answer didn't really help answer my question but thanks for your assistance!
4- 7: The answer helped with a portion of my question, but I still need more help.
8-10: The answer has solved my problem completely! Now I'm a happy camper!

Thanks for your participation in the Forums and your help in assigning points to those who have repied to your message.

Best Regards,
Dan
Forums Manager

[Jasper Verweij]

Certainly this is TITM for other forum newbies!!! So back to the top again.

Jasper

P.S. TITM = To Important To Miss

[Kimberly Ann]

Thanks Jasper.... :)

-Dan

[Morgan Shank]

Has anyone actually been assigned any points? I haven't...

morgan (=

[Kimberly Ann]

Hi Morgan,

Checking your profile at http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/UserProfile/1,,BR710794!1,00.html, it looks like you have some replies available for points. Sometimes a small reminder to the question author helps. Hopefully this will pick up for you -- if you check the home page, right side, you'll see the top 25 list of members with a couple who have earned over 30,000 points already!

Regards,
Dan

[J._1 · Accepted solution]

I have yet to post any questions but feel I've left some pretty valuable (but not rated) remarks behind while browsing around.

Maybe the below suggestion already happens...

Perhaps when the *original poster* comes back to review when someone has responded, they could be prompted first with a reminder to rate the responses.

Of course, logging in is only a requirement for posting, not reading answers (which is really the way it should be, open to all) - so only those who come back to the site on a regular basis (and login) might follow-up with ratings. I imagine most first time posters are just looking for a quick answer and never come back.

I do know that when reviewing the various forums, the first one's I read are those rated with "answers" - otherwise nobody can be certain that the proposed solution has any value.

My $0.02...

[Brent Ingler]

TTT

[Brent Ingler]

Got to bring this to the top again. Please, help us help you help yourselves! =)

Brent

[Jeff Mathews]

This one is always worth a read...especially for those new to the forum.