Hi Tom,I prefer the email-based mailing list because I get all the messages posted. From my experience on web-based forums, I will get, maybe, one email message about a new thread and then nothing. With them, I must keep polling the website and searching for new threads and/or messages regularly. It's a pain. I'm sorry, I don't have time for that. So I keep using this email list forum. It is more convenient for me.
As far as the recognition goes, this thread is the first I heard of any "rewards" for posting help for user problems. I don't expect any reward for my help to others. My reward is helping others as payback for all the help I got in the past and future from this forum.
Girvin Herr On 12/10/2017 08:15 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
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-- ******************************** A smile - is a sign of joy. A hug - is a sign of love. A laugh - is a sign of happiness. And a friend like me?? ...that's just a sign of good taste!! Blessings, Joe Conner Joshua 24:15 "...as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-un subscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
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