Re: [libreoffice-users] Why are the people who answer users' questions are not getting counted?

Hi :)
There is nothing new in this.

People providing User Support or Technical Support through these mailing
lists have never been recognised as being a useful part of TDF or the
LibreOffice community.

Similarly the Documentation Team and some others get no recognition nor
support from TDF.

So there is no reason to expect any of these mailing lists to close or
change at all.


I don't know why the Ask 'Bot' thing is different.  It was a new and
'trendy' thing that users were allegedly finding much more normal and
easier to use.  Many of the people doing the actual work of answering
questions found it painful because there was no way for them to chat or
help each other out so it was difficult to build-up team spirit or learn
from each other and so on.  So it's a very desolate and isolating system
that is not much fun for volunteers.

Another advantage here is that we sometimes get feedback on the quality of
our answers or on how well we welcomed people in to the community or
whatnot.

I get the impression that this mailing-list is more rewarding without
needing some fake points system to rate us and to potentially create
divisions and stuff like that.  I guess the AskBot needs the points&badges
system because it's the only feedback they can get.

Regards from
a Tom :)

On 8 Dec 2017 20:15, "Joe Conner" <joeconner2007@gmail.com> wrote:

> Interesting: I had no idea this even existed.
>
> Blessings, Joe
>
>
> On 12/08/2017 08:48 AM, Luuk wrote:
>
> > I also do not use Ask Libreoffice
> >
> > But i do have (some) badges... ( 1gold, 1silver, 3 bronze)
> >
> > But, most important question, what can i do with those badges????
> >
> > BTW the link to 'Ask LibreOffice' is: https://ask.libreoffice.org
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 08-12-17 16:56, Tim-L wrote:
> >
> > > On the "Projects" list, there is a link to the claiming of badges.
> > >
> > > One thing I saw was the fact that people who help others in this list is
> > > not counted for claiming badges. I do not use "Ask LibreOffice", yet, that
> > > is the only place to help users if you want to claim a badge. As I said, I
> > > do not use Ask LibreOffice, just the email list service. There are a lot
> > > people here that help users.  I do not know how many of these users are
> > > answering these questions over the ones who answering on Ask LibreOffice.
> > >
> > > If only the people using Ask LibreOffice get recognized for helping
> > > others, it seems to me that people who help others on this list are not
> > > counted as helping others.  Are these lists no longer the place to help
> > > users and will be dropped soon? That is the only way I can get my head
> > > around the fact that the helpers are not counted in the "badge page"
> > > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Badges/2017-11
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