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Post by Maria Lurdes (Milu) on Apr 29, 2016 1:27:41 GMT
What is with the "if you found this helpful" or "If you find this information helpful, consider clicking the Thumbs-Up icon near lower right. Thanks!
Is there some kind of a prize for the number of thumbs up that you get? I'm only being slightly sarcastic, as I really do wonder if that's what moves the levels..... it seems kind of odd that lately so many people are having a footer with this request in it....
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Post by High Priestess on Apr 29, 2016 1:39:52 GMT
I agree Milu I think it is incredibly stupid. It is a blatant promotion of the Community Center as a Help Center, and more, a Competetive Yahoo Answers help center where participants compete and get rated. IT is very detrimental to community to give people rankings and ratings for just participating in community. That's one reason why I am very reluctant to post on the CC.
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Post by helgaparis on Apr 30, 2016 4:30:45 GMT
When I saw it first, I thought it came ftom the moderator. Took me a while to understand that people post it themselves. "Disgusting!" (I made Shannon laugh with my saying disgusting to some situations , as it seems it is a milder but socially killing disapprouval in Europe)
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Post by High Priestess on Apr 30, 2016 5:13:43 GMT
I thought the same! I thought Lizzie had urged these hosts to add this blatant advertisement as a signature on their posts. I had a hard time believing that the hosts themselves could be such shills.
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Post by trafalgar on Apr 30, 2016 18:00:15 GMT
I think these over-keen participants in the Community Centre see themselves as plucky volunteer CX workers, and are apparently happy in that role (which is fair enough if they enjoy it...) but nevertheless notice that hardly anyone ever actually says 'thanks that was helpful', or even gives a thumbs up. Since there's no other 'reward' as such for their participation (e.g. no community spirit, an absence of relationship-building/the give and take of a normal online community), they resort to putting an [optimistic] etiquette prompt in the signature. I don't think it's competitive per se; I don't think they're trying to accumulate more thumbs-ups than the other poor drudges contributors, but are just after some appreciation in return for all the hours they put in. And a few thumbs-ups makes them feel rewarded. Personally, I'm amazed that anyone would 'work' in exchange for thumbs-ups, but clearly there are people who will.
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Post by carolyn on Apr 30, 2016 22:07:57 GMT
?? I thought the purpose of the "thumbs up" was that, if you search a topic, the first results will be the ones on that topic that have the most "thumbs up," ie the postings considered most helpful. Does it work like that?
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Post by Maria Lurdes (Milu) on Apr 30, 2016 22:22:56 GMT
Hey Carolyn, your answer is SO logical that it must not be true That would be the right reason for thumbs up's.
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Post by High Priestess on May 1, 2016 1:34:51 GMT
?? I thought the purpose of the "thumbs up" was that, if you search a topic, the first results will be the ones on that topic that have the most "thumbs up," ie the postings considered most helpful. Does it work like that? Carolyn I gave your comment a thumbs up!
Actually that is a very good point you raise and I think that was something that Airbnb considered, too. Because one can search posts and then see how many thumbs up each post got. However, I think it is probably more helpful, in terms of wanting to build community, to see how many REPLIES a certain post got. Because the thumbs up references the helpfulness of responses or how valued they are - but the REPLIES are what actually start to build interest and build community. By far and away most of the posts on the CC have very few replies -- many have only 1 or 2. It's unusual to see a post with 10 or20 replies. There is some correlation because a large number of thumbs up may indicate a large number of replies.....
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Post by helgaparis on May 28, 2016 10:43:44 GMT
I think Carolyn found the official reason but Trafalgar the real one ;-)
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