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by tintoman

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Is has occurred to me that myself and a number of other TR members spend a considerable amount of time each week trying to assist posters on this site with various IT related issues. Personally I get a significant amount of knowledge just by reading the responses that others give.
Wouldn't it be great if everyone who received an answer to their question was prompted in some way to give a thumbs up? I mean as it is right now there is no prompt that i can see and many of the answers give (mine included) go largely unrecognised, I worked out that I get about 8% thumbs up for the answers I give, fair enough I'm not looking for a place in the hall of fame but it would be nice to be recognised for our help a bit more, after all we are giving of our knowledge for free!

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by absolutely

That might not be the right name; it used
to be that when you join TechRepublic, you
get a certain number of points to award to
people who answer your questions. The
beauty of the system was that by
conscientiously awarding the points to
others, you [u]received[/u] more points,
too. Cnet crapped all over that, and a lot
of other things.

by charliespencer

People have raised this issue for years and not just on TR. That's the way of the world; some people are considerate, some aren't, some merely indifferent. I suggest you stop responding to someone who has failed to approve your previous suggestions.

by locolobo

Sometimes you learn from trying to answer the posts. Or someone corrects your answer and you found out something new.

8% sounds right. That's just the way people are.

by dr dij

ClickSturbate.

That's the only word I can think of to explain why one person had 1126 thumbs up but no postings and very few answered questions.

That person has left TR, possibly because they are going blind.

by ongch777

Thumbs up for the remarks and toes up to you for suggesting such. Good to encourage one another :)

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