this thread was not put here to make anyone mad just thought it would be a good idea. as for your site referral, I feel fine with the daniweb community. I was just looking for away to contribute to daniweb.TO help contribute to daniweb online community. Wow maybe i should stop this thread befor everyone starts to hate me.

I do not see where anyone got mad. Challenging your idea is not the same as hating you.

i was just having a bad day that day sorry

Maybe we could have a points system to grade questions on how stupid they are. Like "URGENT! My program's broke, please fix it, and be quick about it.". On a scale of 1 to 10, that deserves a 10 for one of the most stupid idiotic posts that occasionally come up.

Ancient Dragon.... Most Valuable Poster..... wow i didnt think you would have the time to leave a mark on this thread. It is nice to see that even URGENT stupid Questions get answered here by the big timers thanks for your post. I have been trying not to get upset about peoples posts that might be......... negative

experts exchange has a point system too. I like the reputation system better because the point system would put more of a burder on moderators to assess each question and score it -- and they would likely have to do that before the question is answered. Then this would be more code that the Daniweb team would have to merge with vBulletin updates when they upgraded versions.

How much do you want to bet that if users could assign a point value to their own question that it would always be a 10?

sknake you do bright a good piont. Mybe a poll system where everyone can vote and rate. The highter the Reputation the more there vote will effect the poll.......

Why change it? What daniweb has works. What is the benefit of the added labor in a point system?

It does work...... But there is always ways to inprove anything and everything.

>I like the reputation system better

I personally feel that the reputation system is a complete fail and the point system introduced by StackOverflow is awesome. You get a vote-up if the answer is acceptable; a vote-down is not. The reputation generated for each vote-up/vote-down is the *same* irrespective of the number of reputation points the voter has!

Let's assume that you post a really good answer to some C# question and it's a hit with the C# developers on this site who completely agree with the reply but just happen to have recently joined Daniweb and hence don't have any reputation points to give. OTOH, someone else posts a so-so reply on the same thread with a bit of *cough* humor *ahem* in it and it gets a A-OK from one of the established members of this site. Viola, the person with a so-so reply now has 50 rep points while you have none.

Reputation should IMO depend on how many people agree with your answer rather than *who* agrees with your answer. The reputation system should focus more on avoiding blunders than trying really hard to reward acceptable answers. Lastly, as someone once said, rep system is more of a popularity contest. :-)

> because the point system would put more of a burder on
> moderators to assess each question and score it

Even normal members can vote-up answers, no? AFAIK, there is no burden on moderators whatsoever.