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3 years, 5 months ago

Why must I be a "yellow belt" to mark an answer as helpful or not?

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eatthatpopcorn | 3 years, 5 months ago
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So that a person doesn't just create lots of accounts and click their own answers as being helpful. When you go to "my profile" it says the percentage of answers you gave that were helpful. This helps people judge how good of an answerer you are.

If people try gaming the system it defeats the purpose.

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clabuff | 3 years, 5 months ago Report

I think this answer is helpful (I would rate it, but I can't yet! Need some more points). I like it better than my answer.

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chn-cs-htg | 3 years, 5 months ago
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quality control, in a nutshell.

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clabuff | 3 years, 5 months ago
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I would bet that this is Mahalo's way of ensuring that only people who are at least somewhat regular contributors to the site are affecting other members' ratings.
I think it's a little stupid also (I'm still not a Yellow Belt, but I'm almost there!), but I can see the potential for abuse by non-regular-contributors. I would not be happy if someone continually ranked my answers as unhelpful just because, for example, they didn't like my avatar or something.
Regular contributors, I would think, are more likely to take their answers (and other answers) seriously.

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edd | 3 years, 5 months ago
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This simple method of user control ensures that users cannot sign up for multiple accounts very easily to downgrade others' answers. It also stops novice users from negatively rating others's answers until they further understand the site and the general quality of questions and answers provided.

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corwin | 3 years, 5 months ago
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In order to weed out the people who are not serious in helping people/only want to screw around (ie. nominate the worst answer as a joke). On top of that, this would prevent people from abusing the system by creating a multitude of accounts and voting their own responses as best. This, in turn, leads to a site that actually gives good answers (unlike some other sites out there).

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jordan13530 | 3 years, 5 months ago
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It also helps control people who just want to sign up and start flaming answers.

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