@pccheese I hear you young grasshopper and I feel your pain:-) all the hard work or researching and no responds from the OP. Just does not seem fair, does it? Remember why we do what we do. It is not for fame, glory or financial rewards. It is because we like what we are doing! Sharing our knowledge empowers others to do their repair and keep their device afloat. I figure that for every 10 people that ask a question only 2 or 3 will ever come back to that question, for whatever reason. But if those that come back actually get good quality answers and it helps them to repair their device, have we then not succeeded?
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Yes @jayeff is a perfect example. His answers are well written, to the point and very concise. I yet have to read an answer by @jayeff that did not apply. So the reason why he achieved the point count is because he give quality answers and is very active with that. Simple math, the more you answer the more points you accumulate. This is not to say that people with less points know less. It just means that they may not be as active.
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Yes, @jayeff is a perfect example. His answers are well written, to the point and very concise. I yet have to read an answer by @jayeff that did not apply. So the reason why he achieved the point count is because he gives quality answers and is very active with doing so. Simple math, the more you answer the more points you accumulate. This is not to say that people with less points know less. It just means that they may not be as active.
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The one big negative part about your proposal I see is, we are still going to answer the question. We'll do the research and post the answer but the OP does not return. Under your proposal "the OP's question will be deleted a week of more inactivity" which would delete the hard work somebody did. You are not keeping the OP's from continuing to ask their answers without ever coming back, but you will have people thinking twice about answering question only to have them deleted after. A lot of work for nothing?
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The one big negative part about your proposal I see is, we are still going to answer the question. We'll do the research and post the answer but the OP does not return. Under your proposal "the OP's question will be deleted a week of more inactivity" which would delete the hard work somebody did as well. You are not keeping the OP's from continuing to ask their answers without ever coming back, but you will have people thinking twice about answering question only to have them deleted after. A lot of work for nothing?
If you look through Meta around 2014/2015 you will find a lot of discussions around this with no real resolution. I suggest that we continue doing what we do best. Help others regardless if the OP comes back or not. There may just be a person out there that has the same issues with the same device and will be helped by one of us. Good enough for me. Let's continue to have fun, support each other and learn from each other.
@pccheese I hear you young grasshopper and I feel your pain:-) all the hard work or researching and no responds from the OP. Just does not seem fair, does it? Remember why we do what we do. It is not for fame, glory or financial rewards. It is because we like what we are doing! Sharing our knowledge empowers others to do their repair and keep their device afloat. I figure that for every 10 people that ask a question only 2 or 3 will ever come back to that question, for whatever reason. But if those that come back actually get good quality answers and it helps them to repair their device, have we then not succeeded?
Yes @jayeff is a perfect example. His answers are well written, to the point and very concise. I yet have to read an answer by @jayeff that did not apply. So the reason why he achieved the point count is because he give quality answers and is very active with that. Simple math, the more you answer the more points you accumulate. This is not to say that people with less points know less. It just means that they may not be as active.
The one big negative part about your proposal I see is, we are still going to answer the question. We'll do the research and post the answer but the OP does not return. Under your proposal "the OP's question will be deleted a week of more inactivity" which would delete the hard work somebody did. You are not keeping the OP's from continuing to ask their answers without ever coming back, but you will have people thinking twice about answering question only to have them deleted after. A lot of work for nothing?
If you look through Meta around 2014/2015 you will find a lot of discussions around this with no real resolution. I suggest that we continue doing what we do best. Help others regardless if the OP comes back or not. There may just be a person out there that has the same issues with the same device and will be helped by one of us. Good enough for me. Let's continue to have fun, support each other and learn from each other.
