Member Status

nomad · May 19, 2005

( Nomad:

I also should be considered a super something. But then not having any advantage of education perhaps it shoud be called superdud! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Egon /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )

Egon, I have an idea on how to measure the quality of posts. This grading system uses "relevancy" factor that counts the keywords in a post relevant to forum topic and make a kind of correlation. For example, when we apply my this grading to your post above the result will look like that Quality Q(Egon's this post) = O in 10 pts max. And, when previewing your post before posting it, you will be recommended to go to Adult Parents Forum haha.

Egon · May 19, 2005

Will that program be written in Fortran Nomad?? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Egon /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

nomad · May 19, 2005

No, our TBN version of Fortran. It will be written in Fordrun.hahaa

MossRoad · May 20, 2005

Just because a person has a lot of posts doesn't mean anything. Let me say that again, Just because a person has a lot posts doesn't mean anything. There are people that are very helpful and don't make very many posts. Then there are others that just post to be posting. There are even some that don't know anything about equipment or should I say very little that have just read everything here and regurgitate it, which misleads others into thinking that they know what they are talking about. So, the numbers of posts don't necessarily mean that someone is a knowledgeable member... 

Hey! I resemble that remark!!! /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

PineRidge · May 21, 2005

Just because a person has a lot of posts doesn't mean anything. Let me say that again, Just because a person has a lot posts doesn't mean anything. There are people that are very helpful and don't make very many posts. Then there are others that just post to be posting. There are even some that don't know anything about equipment or should I say very little that have just read everything here and regurgitate it, which misleads others into thinking that they know what they are talking about. So, the numbers of posts don't necessarily mean that someone is a knowledgeable member... 

Jerry everything that has ever been said here at this site has been repeated over and over again. There is no such thing as a member making a statement about a tractor, plow, implement or whatever for that matter that has never been said before. If you think about it you'll have to agree. We have all learned from posts made at this site and we have all passed some of that knowledge on to others. And after all isn't that what this site is all about anyway people sharing knowledge, and helping others?

I know that we don't all hold a PHD but are your comments or mine for that matter any more valuable than the next guy that might make a post?

I would almost bet that more than a few of those daily lurkers read but don't post because they think that their opinions don't or won't count. That's not what it should ever come down to. There are a few members here that I take the time to read all of their posts, and there are a few that their topics normally don't interest me. But that boils down to a personal preference and their ideas and opinions are still valuable to the site as a whole.

I wish the grading system would go away myself but I can't help but remember that I'm merely a visitor here and unfortunately visitors don't get to make the rules.

So I'll be content to stay, learn, throw my 2 cents worth in from time to time and pass some information on to someone else that might be thankful to get the help. And if not they can do like me and take it or leave it. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

JerryG · May 24, 2005

Mike,
You didn't get what I was trying to say. Numbers of posts don't mean that a member is knowledgeable or it doesn't mean that they don't. It simply means that they have posts. There are all kinds of posters here, good, bad, helpfully, and even unhelpful.

KubotaSteve · May 24, 2005

Jerry,
Are you sorta talking about the little test teachers used to do in elementary school when they have one child read a paragraph to themselves and then tell it to the next child in their ear and then that child whispers to the next child what the one before him said. By the time it gets around the classroom, the actual content resembles very little of the original paragraph.
I do think that happens here as well. Someone reads something and then when another guy asks a question along the same lines they say what they read before even though they may have no actual knowledge of it. An example would be me telling someone how to bale hay when the only thing I know about baling hay is what I have read here and seen on farms nearby since I have never baled hay!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
I pretty much ignore the titles and over time I have learned who has good content in their posts.
Some on the most knowledgeable people on tractors don't even post here probably because the old farmers are so busy keeping up with their chores they don't have time to post.

JerryG · May 24, 2005

Steve,
The only problem that I have with someone, anyone restating something is if that make every effort to get the information correct. Most of the time, that is how it is here. Most do make ever effort to give good information, as in correct information.

PineRidge · May 24, 2005

Jerry maybe I just misunderstood what you were trying to convey in your post. I stand down.

MikePA · May 24, 2005

Like most other topics, this has come up before and there's no method for easily evaluating the quality of a post. At one point we thought only posts in the tractor related forums should be counted. But there are much higher priority TBN improvements on the list than how to determine Member Status.