We know what you were thinking… sure, the site is great and there’s some useful answers and all, but what it really needs is more numbers(!), more metrics and a little bit of friendly competition.
Well, maybe you weren’t thinking that exactly. But we think we hope it’s a really good idea and we’d like you to take it around the block a few times and let us know what you think.
Here’s the deal:
Since we launched last fall, it’s been possible to vote great questions and answers up. The rationale for this was that voting would let great questions rise to the top of the question list (“most appreciated“) and it would let great answers rise to the top of any given question page; so that folks coming to the page after you would benefit from your and everyone’s collective wisdom about what’s most worth reading, and thus make the site more helpful for everyone.
Voting also has the nice side benefit of letting someone else know that you appreciated their post.
Now, we’re formalizing that appreciation a bit. When guildmembers vote up your question or answer, we’ll add points to your score. You’ll also get points for creating a tagline, a first question or answer, or other things that we believe make the site or community better.
Let us know what you think!
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By the way, note that a side-effect of scores for guildmembers is that posts that are made in your name impact your total score while anonymous posts do not. This is for two reasons:
- If we incremented your score when someone voted up your anonymous post, it might be possible for others to put one and one together and connect you with that post. Which seems really bad.
- Anonymous posts have, on occasion, been causing a wee bit of trouble. So, while we want to allow and encourage guildmembers to post sensitive questions and answers (in an understandably anonymous fashion), we think it’s in the best interest of the community to discourage anonymous posting more generally.
