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How to encourage emerging users in forum to give better solution:?

View Poll Results: How to encourage emerging users in forum to give better solution:
Giving them a reward/appreciation if they are continuously giving good answers 0 0%
Encourage them more by sending them PM that they are doing well or they can try more to give good solutions. 0 0%
By creating a new option named "Moderator/admin's like" which can let user know how he is doing in providing solutions. 3 16.67%
Make a “STAR of the MONTH award” etc for monthly basis b/w all users on their performances of handling/answering/helping/learning/advising users. 1 5.56%
The current "Thank You" system is working fine. 14 77.78%
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# 22  
Old 12-11-2014
May I be the first to click it too.


Robin Smilie
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# 23  
Old 12-11-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by Neo
Very good points. In response, I will do the following:
  1. I'll move the Thanks button to the far left where it stands alone to make it more noticeable. (DONE)
  2. I'll add a bottom guideline to the rules asking people to use the Thanks mechanism when the see posts they like or appreciate, etc. (DONE)
  3. I'll also add a general FAQ page on this as well.
Thanks a lot Neo, appreciate itSmilie. It is really really more visible than before.
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# 24  
Old 12-11-2014
OK... added a new "Thanks" section to our FAQ.

Quote:
Our forums have a fortune of very talented members who ask good questions and provide great answers. It's a good idea to show your appreciation to fellow forum members when they provide good answers to questions or are helpful in general. One of the best ways to show your appreciation is to click the "Thanks" button located at the bottom left side of each post.

Clicking the "Thanks" button serves many useful purposes.

First of all, clicking "Thanks" shows your respect and appreciation to other forum members.

Second, "Thanked" posts are given a high priority in our Google sitemap, so these posts will show up earlier in Google search results.

Third, the number of user "Thanks" are used as a part of our forum algorithm to assist forum moderators in selecting future forum advisers and moderators.

So please click "Thanks" when you see useful posts. Thanks! Smilie
Please feel free to suggest any changes or additions to the wording in this thread.

Thanks! Smilie
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# 25  
Old 12-11-2014
I think the current system is working fine.
However, the idea of Moderator/Admin "thanks" could add something to the quality - as a badge of honor for some.
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# 26  
Old 12-11-2014
Since this thread is all about improving the quality of answers the other thing that I thought of was to have a "thumbs up" solved button next to the Thanks button (which can only be pressed by the OP).

Getting a solved flag from the OP would count as three times the weight of a straight Thanks thereby encouraging pros to drive threads right down to the wire and achieve a result for the OP.

(The current "solved" tagging done by any member would remain too.)

However, that's probably too much of a programming job.
# 27  
Old 12-11-2014
I vote for a thank Don button...in a large gothic font.
# 28  
Old 12-11-2014
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Originally Posted by blackrageous
I vote for a thank Don button...in a large gothic font.
I'm not sure I've done anything to deserve that; but thank you for the huge compliment!
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