Discovering bugs

[Wolfgang]

It is funny and nice to have a forum about the forum...

I feel that having found a bug, i. e. when NI reproduces the reported misbehaviour and files a corrective action, could be somehow honoured forum-wise, too. Of course, we all benefit if NI is going to fix bugs (which is not true for all companies), but typically such posts do not even result in an 'accepted solution', obviously.

[RavensFan]

The only person who can create an accepted solution is the person who created the original post.  Theoretically, you can post a reply in your own thread and mark your own reply as the accepted solution.  A bunch of people seem to do that now in error when they mark there own thank you message as the solution to their own question, as opposed to marking the message that most helped them.

If you post a bug, it will get recognized and a CAR# assigned to it, but how is that a solution?  If you are someone says "I found a bug and here is how you can work around it", then that post could be considered a solution.

While accepted solutions are nice to get, the main purpose for them isn't to get recognition.  That is more in line with Kudoes.  An accepted solution is really a tool to say your question is solved, here is the message that most helped, and gives people looking up the same problem in the future a way to cut through and get right to the most helpful message.

[Wolfgang]

Hi Ravens Fan,

I completely agree with you 🙂

1) Personally, I don't need these forum colors.

2) But if there are colors, it's human to start comparing...

3) Doing so I realized that if you post ten messages and use any tags (why, does, it, not, work, I, need, help) you finally end up with darker colors than if you post ten messages that each reports a bug and ends up as a CAR.

4) Seeing the many discussions in this Special Interest Board on ranking etc. I started wondering why finding bugs is not rewarded at all, while adding even useless tags may result in a top tagger (from the list of top tags: a, and, have, I, in, is, my...)

[Ben]

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Wolfgang wrote:

Hi Ravens Fan,

I completely agree with you 🙂

1) Personally, I don't need these forum colors.

2) But if there are colors, it's human to start comparing...

3) Doing so I realized that if you post ten messages and use any tags (why, does, it, not, work, I, need, help) you finally end up with darker colors than if you post ten messages that each reports a bug and ends up as a CAR.

4) Seeing the many discussions in this Special Interest Board on ranking etc. I started wondering why finding bugs is not rewarded at all, while adding even useless tags may result in a top tagger (from the list of top tags: a, and, have, I, in, is, my...)

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Tagging is much under utilized and it needs our contributions to build up the Tag Clouds. Every tag no matter how trivial plays a part in the Tree of Knowledge found the the Clouds. The more tags the better provided the tags are not just random words.

Very few people actively tag posts.

By including the total tag count in the formula to determine bar colors, NI is giving taggers recognition for contributing to the tag cloud KB.

With time the good tags will overwelm the worthless tags.

Ben