[wp-hackers] GSoC 2010, WordPress.org Profiles

Stephen Rider wp-hackers at striderweb.com
Fri Mar 26 23:56:15 UTC 2010


On Mar 25, 2010, at 4:28 AM, mrmist wrote:

> it would pain me greatly to see someone getting karma points for spamming the forum / codex with useless bilge that is fit for the trash can, whilst quality responses that take a lot of time to craft "only" make 1 karma point.
> 
> Perhaps there could be some rating system applied to forum responses, or note could be taken over when an answer "resolves" a problem.

Yes -- I think a simple thumbsup/thumbsdown switch that readers can hit would be useful here.  Karma shouldn't be automated -- real people should have to indicate that something is good.

Stephen


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