IPB "Best Member" feature?


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So what would be the timeline for enabling this? Seems almost all agree it would be good to have... :happy:

i suggested the idea, i didnt have a clue whether there was such a feature in IPB or an add-in. we still havent had any response from an admin as to whether they think its doable

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Sounds great, so long as it's a positive only thing. On a lot of boards post count == quality of posts, but I can't so much say that's exactly true here, especially since some of the people who almost never post are the most helpful.

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If you want an user or thread rating system on a board clogged with idiots that have their own agenda, you better take a look at the SWG forums and their rating chaos, then you might judge again if we indeed need such a system. Besides that, you don't need a user rating system to know what everyone hates me!

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I agree for a 'is this post helpfull' button, but I don't think a 'the best member is...' idea would work too well. People (may) begin to think that a member not voted as helpfull is therefore a useless member, and their advice is not worth listening to.

Also, it may make people with more extreame (although not necessarily 'less helpfull') posts be rated poorly. For example, people might have strong one-sided views on a subject, and another member may disagree and 'rate' the post poorly. This would mean, no matter how well the first person made his/her point, it would be regarded as 'not good' because of the poor rating.

Anyway, enough pooly-written ramblings: just something to be considered.

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This does sound like an awesome idea. There should be an option that users cannot vote bad things. For example when they think the thread is bad, they don't vote. When they think the thread is good then they vote.

As said before this way you will easily find the helpful members and not pick a wrong choice. *cough*silly_walk*cough* :p [jk]

So yea this is a good idea, but it's still up to the admins since a mod is being installed it will have some risks. :)

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