PP is a forum for sharing information and knowledge, with open ends. It is not a survey or opinion poll, for that we have another section in Voting.
You will appreciate that it is very easy to click and rate a comment than to dedicate time and energy and come up with something of value. It is for the originator to decide what he is looking for as an answer or the other partcipants who provide valuable input.
You yourself can understand that once a person disagrees with you, leave apart bringing the best out of you it may even stop anything which was to come out of you.
What is the difference between being criticised by a comment or a rating? Being right or wrong, I want as much feedback a possible. If anything, a system like this is likely to increase the quality of comments. This also removes the need to insert comments like ‘I agree/disagree’. A rating system would enable viewers to quickly give their opinion and move on.
Regards,
Larry
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Submitted by Ashraf Jahangeer on Sat, 2007-05-19 04:17
As you point out it takes time and effort to produce a considered reply, and if someone makes that effort and then gets a bad rating because someone else doesnt agree with it, what happens then? The person given the bad rating is less likely to respond again especially if they are naturally shy to begin with. Continued bad ratings could lead to the person withdrawing from the forum altogether with the consequent loss of their expertise and experience.
Also where ratings like this are given, over time people tend to conform to a norm which can be implicit or explicit, but is usually a concensus of the opinions of the group, a process is known as operant conditioning. While ratings can be extremely useful in certain situations, Im not sure that Planning Planet would benefit from such a system.
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21 years 9 monthsRE: Rating comments
Ashraf,
I see the merit of preventing PP forum from becoming a survey or opinion poll.
Thanks,
Larry
Member for
18 years 6 monthsRE: Rating comments
Hi Larry,
PP is a forum for sharing information and knowledge, with open ends. It is not a survey or opinion poll, for that we have another section in Voting.
You will appreciate that it is very easy to click and rate a comment than to dedicate time and energy and come up with something of value. It is for the originator to decide what he is looking for as an answer or the other partcipants who provide valuable input.
You yourself can understand that once a person disagrees with you, leave apart bringing the best out of you it may even stop anything which was to come out of you.
Member for
21 years 9 monthsRE: Rating comments
What is the difference between being criticised by a comment or a rating? Being right or wrong, I want as much feedback a possible. If anything, a system like this is likely to increase the quality of comments. This also removes the need to insert comments like ‘I agree/disagree’. A rating system would enable viewers to quickly give their opinion and move on.
Regards,
Larry
Member for
18 years 6 monthsRE: Rating comments
I totally agree with Chris.
Regards,
Ashraf
Member for
21 years 5 monthsRE: Rating comments
Larry,
As you point out it takes time and effort to produce a considered reply, and if someone makes that effort and then gets a bad rating because someone else doesnt agree with it, what happens then? The person given the bad rating is less likely to respond again especially if they are naturally shy to begin with. Continued bad ratings could lead to the person withdrawing from the forum altogether with the consequent loss of their expertise and experience.
Also where ratings like this are given, over time people tend to conform to a norm which can be implicit or explicit, but is usually a concensus of the opinions of the group, a process is known as operant conditioning. While ratings can be extremely useful in certain situations, Im not sure that Planning Planet would benefit from such a system.
Chris Oggham