Remove Kudos Button

[SteveChandler]

Not really!

But it might be useful if the kudos button were like a radio button for why the kudo is being given. Three categories that come to mind are "Insightful", "Helpful" and "Funny". Maybe there could be three more bars under the existing three bars for those categories. The information is mostly useless but it might be an interesting way to categorize contributors.

[JÞB]

Kudos that was "Funny"

Funny Ha-Ha not funny Strange.

[_Ian_]

I've often wondered about an anti-kudos button for those (happily rare) occasions when someone is being a £$%* (insert rude word of choice here).

Overall anti-kudos is a bad idea, but wouldn't it be satisfying!

[X.]

They have this kind of 1-5 rating on NI's website (see "Feedback >> Select a Rating" on most pages). Certainly more useful than kudos. But then, I am just a forum user...

[Cory_K]

There was a 1-5 star rating on the forums a while back (maybe a year ago?)

[SteveChandler]

I'm not sure I like the 1-5 star rating. I would like to categorize posts. Helpful means assisting with a problem, insightful for things like nuggets, and the all important funny. Slashdot does this. We could see the top most insightful posts, most helpful and funniest authors. A kudo in any caregory increases the total and each post still gets only one from a contributor. This is much different than a numerical rating.

[SteveChandler]

Ian, there was a proposal for a "boo" over on the idea exchange. There was a good discussion as to why that was a bad idea. I would post a link but I'm typing this on my Android. The discussion was about a "boo" as it relates to ideas so maybe it does not apply to discussions in general. Thoughts about this anyone?

[_Ian_]

Thanks Steve: Link to the Boo idea

Personally, although I would be tempted to click a Boo button from time to time I don't think it should be an option - kudos is a positive thing and should be encouraged. Booing or anti-kudos would be negative and could be misused leading to flaming, trolling, bullying etc.

It would be nice to think that if daft or impractical solutions were posted everyone could learn from a thumbs down from other users. However, as concluded on the idea exchange it is best to rely on people explaining problems rather than clicking a button.

Overall I also wouldn't change the kudos system, it is nice and simple (yet clearly some people still don't realise how to use it, or perhaps don't bother). More detail could be fun and interesting... although this may come at the cost of less kudos being delivered overall due to an increase in complexity?

Just thinking out-loud really.

Ian

[SteveChandler]

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_Ian_ wrote:

Overall I also wouldn't change the kudos system, it is nice and simple (yet clearly some people still don't realise how to use it, or perhaps don't bother). More detail could be fun and interesting... although this may come at the cost of less kudos being delivered overall due to an increase in complexity?

Just thinking out-loud really.

Ian

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No telling. It could increase or decrease activity. But the more I think about it having a "Funny" category might get abused. I can imagine a poor new user asking a basic question and getting tagged as funny. Of course everyone could see who did that to the poor guy.

[smercurio_fc]

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@cory K wrote:

There was a 1-5 star rating on the forums a while back (maybe a year ago?)

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There was. We don't talk about those days.