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Just reply to every other post and tell someone to trash their preferences. I'd bet that would be the correct answer 50% of the time.
Okay, lemme do some calculations here... Yup, even if it's the right answer 0% of the time, which we all know is untrue, doing so would still bump my postcount like nobody's business. Thanks!
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This is the exact reason this whole points # of posts thing is stupid. I had over 25,000 originally from when I started here. Then at the last changeover I lost a bunch now I'm back up to 6000+.
I personally think that giving an answer and the quality of that answer is much more important than any these stupid points and post numbers. Being known by your piers as someone who gives good/correct answers has worked in these parts for at least 10 years now.
Why do we need to prove ourselves all over again.
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Hi Joel,
I agree with you 100%.
The point system has the potential of ruining the entire atmosphere of
this highly professional forum. Generally the most professional of the
participants have the least spare time on their hands. Like you, their
responses are not that often, but very accurate, limited to their
areas of expertise, and very much to the point when they come.
To name a few there's: You, Peter Truskier, Dominic Hurley (whom I
haven't seen since the change-over), Peter Gold, Dov Issacs, Gerald
Singelmann, Ole Kvern, Sandee Cohen, (hmm. I stand the chance of
insulting people if I stop, but there's no way I can list everyone who
belongs in this list...) you get the picture...
Unless you spend a ridiculous amount of time on these forums, you will
not collect a whole pile of points. I would never argue with Dominic
Hurley about how long documents should be done, or with you about how
to go about handling foreign languages (unless I want to be made into
a fool). Considering someone to be more professional than Ole Kvern
because they might have more points, is simply laughable! Anyone want
to take Dov Issacs up on the finer points of postscript and pdf?
I think I'll teach Shane Stanley a thing or two about AppleScript...
NOT!
Until now, participant status has been based on content of their posts
alone, WHICH IS THE WAY IT SHOULD BE!!!
If someone wants to write up a letter to be sent into Adobe's
corporate headquarters on why this point system (and answering system)
needs to be abolished, I'll be the first to print it out, sign it, and
send it in!
Harbs
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P Spier wrote:
The thing that makes me feel the best about what I do here is when a user says thanks.
Me too, but I get a certain degree of reward just from knowing I figured out a problem. A lot of this is like putting together a puzzle: someone asks a question leaving out important details, calling a feature something different from the official name, sometimes with an "accent". If they come back later and say "That was it!", I've got my ego fix. I figured out the problem and a solution.
The other reward for me is that figuring out problems (especially if I figure them out from someone else's perspective) fixes them in my memory. Nearly everything I've learned about Indesign has come from trying to answer someone else's question. Someone will ask about Find/Change, for instance. I know that GREP is very powerful, but I know only just enough to get myself in trouble. So I play with it a little and post a GREP string (usually a suitable but less-than-efficient solution). Then Jongware comes along and shows me how it can be improved. :^) The next time I need something similar for my own work, I already have a solution (although I've probably forgotten the better one from Jongware...).
Ken
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Yes your points carry over - so you can be a world-renowned expert in one area, pick up a different app for the first time and stroll into that forum looking like Mr/Ms know-it-all with a squillion points. I'll readily admit to a getting a little warm-fuzzy from a genuine star, but a real thank you is much better. I'm also getting sucked in to where I feel a bit miffed if I give someone a correct answer and they don't know to give me points. Help, I'm being corrupted
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I'll readily admit to a getting a little warm-fuzzy from a genuine star, but a real thank you is much better. I'm also getting sucked in to where I feel a bit miffed if I give someone a correct answer and they don't know to give me points. Help, I'm being corrupted
I asked this in the other thread too, so hopefully I will get a link from someone. How would the original poster that knows nothing about the point system know what they are supposed to do? Here I am gushing appreciation about the help I've received but I don't do the right thing and it diminished my gratitude.
Patty
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Case in point. I've just answered a question in Golive. Mine is the only response. The OP says that what I explained didn't exactly work, but it pointed him in the right direction and his problem is solved.
He marked the question answered, but didn't award any points - presumably, like Patty, he didn't know they exist. (Oh no, I'm so hurt!
) So far so-so, except that the solution he's come up with sounds like a bodge that will lead him into more trouble down the road.But the question is now marked answered, so anyone else coming along will think it's sorted out.
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