"Like" button

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cphbravo96:

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I believe that the "silver banana" and "monkey shit" options are meant to be the WSO "like" and "dislike".

Good call, though it seems to apply to 'comments' more than 'topics'.

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I see where you are coming from. However, my belief is that the worth of the topic should be common sense to pretty much anyone and that having a way for new people to determine which responses to the questions/topics is much more important.

for instance, if there is a topic stating that only those who attend Harvard, princeton, yale or wharton are worthy of working in high finance it is pretty easy to figure out that the op is an idiot and should not be listened to.

But, while a resume review thread CAN be helpful to a prospective monkey the quality of the advice and critiques given is highly variable and the worthiness of those comments is shown through silver bananas.

just my thoughts.. I am often wrong though

Fair points. I agree the system is in place, but the members here have to utilize it in the proper manner. For example, giving silver bananas to the OP if it's a good topic but peg them with turds if they subsequently make silly comments.

Additionally, the number of people that participate in the thread could help indicate how helpful/popular/good it is. The problem we run into is there are multiple threads talking about the same thing. Granted some of them have a small, unique differences from the one that was asked before, but they are virtually the same. Given that, you will have members, who have been here for months or years that have seen the thread a dozen + times, so they may not find it useful...thus it could possibly not be voted as "liked" or "good" or whatever the tag would be.

It maybe be cumbersome, but searching for a specific term and then combing through a large number of the threads has been a very useful tool to me. Typically I filter by date, so I can see the newest and, likely, most relevant ones first then I just read through them all...even if it's merely skimming through the page. Like mentioned above "What type of shoe to buy" might not be a useful thread to me, though I've seen it 3 dozen times since I've been a member. However, now that I am looking at purchasing some new shoes in the near future, it has become very useful...so I just searched a couple terms, pulled up the old posts and took out the info I needed.

Ultimately, it's hard to define what's useful to one person and not another, so I don't think there is a great way of ranking individual posts. As it was mentioned above, the best way to determine whether a topic is good is to just go an read what the OP wrote. Outside of that the banana points, silver bananas and monkey shit are at least a great way of determining how many grains of salt one must take when validating a user's response.

Regards