Salem, I'm actually rather confused what you're asking.

> Sure, if "solved" is a metric, I'm going to be more interested in helping people who post with code tags in proper English, and give due recognition rather than some brain-dead semi-literate boob who doesn't give a damn so long as they get their free lunch.

Wouldn't you want to do this even if Solved wasn't a metric?

> So we have now 4 "metrics" which tell the world how we're performing, yet none for those people asking the questions?

If someone has a lot of posts but little reputation and no solved threads, then it's more likely than not that they don't answer a lot of questions.

If someone asks a lot of questions, but they ask good quesitons and always use code tags, a lot of people do +rep for that. Therefore, if someone has a good reputation but no solved threads, then there's a good change they are a good question asker.

>also give a nice overview of how a member has replied and helped other people.
That kind of gives oldtimers the shaft though. For those of us who had thousands of posts long before marking threads as solved was a feature, it would seem like we're less helpful than we really are. Not that I intend to put any more weight on the number of solved threads than I would on rep, but this feature seems dicey at best and not nearly as entertaining as rep.

> For those of us who had thousands of posts long before marking threads as solved was a feature ...

At most there are about five such people, all who haven't logged into the site for well over a year. The ability to mark threads as solved has existed since 2004.

> this feature seems dicey at best ...

It's not supposed to be a new feature as much as it is just doing a simple calculation based on a system that was already in place to use as an added metric.

>The ability to mark threads as solved has existed since 2004.
Really. Then only a tiny fraction of people have taken advantage of it. It still sounds dicey to me.

>It's not supposed to be a new feature as much as it is just
>doing a simple calculation based on a system that was already
>in place to use as an added metric.
Solved threads is an existing feature. Using them as a metric for whatever you intended is a new feature. Simple.

> Really. Then only a tiny fraction of people have taken advantage of it. It still sounds dicey to me.

Do you remember when the Mark as Solved link was in the Thread Tools dropdown menu? Few people aside from the mods probably realized that it existed. Then the Mark as Solved link was moved to the top of the page. Still, few people used it. It was then moved to the bottom near the Quick Reply box where it's gotten a lot more attention.

In any case, while the rep system is based on what OTHER community members think of you, this new "feature" (ok, I said it ... feature) is just here to provide a more objective idea of how helpful a member is.

For example, going back to when you first started on DaniWeb and you were rather, how should I say, mean, you were extremely helpful to many members, but had one of the lowest reputations. Had this metric existed, it would have been a way to gauge that you were a knowledgeable person with an attitude as opposed to a spammer with lots of posts and no worthiness beyond that.

> It still sounds dicey to me.
IMO, any completely automated system that attempts to calculate the worthiness of a member of an online community completely on the fly is going to be dicey. But, when coupled with the reputation system, the member's post count, and how long ago they joined, I think it helps to give a better at-a-glance all around picture of the member.

>when you first started on DaniWeb and you were rather, how should I say, mean
"Were" nothing, I'm still rather mean.

No you're not. You're the picture of politeness

>You're the picture of politeness
I scared away two or three people in the last month. Polite people don't do that.

naure is scary in a cool way

i always laugh when you scare the turbo c++ ing void-mainers in the c++ forum

i like the new feature btw, talked to dani abiut it earlier