Brainstorm

Prioritize forum responses by usefulness

Posted on 2009-10-13 16:05 UTC by Hogwash .. Status: Duplicate, Categories: User Experience.

People often complain about how, especially in long threads, duplicate responses can have a 'polluting' effect on the thread.

 

Following the example of stackoverflow.com, it would be more useful to have the most 'useful' (thanked) responses appear first - allowing the reader to process this info on the first couple pages (the most likely to be read before running out of patience).

Solutions for this brainstorm

Solution #1: Sort by 'thank' ranking

Posted on 2009-10-13 14:02 UTC by Hogwash ..

Sort replies by 'thanked' ranking, highest first.

Follow these by unthanked replies, sorted by date (most recent first - to give new posts a chance to be seen and thanked)

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