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Notify my how my answer has been rated
The rating possibilities are very narrow, but anyway I would like to know if my answer gets rated as not helpful so that I do not send simalar answer to similar question in the future.
This is something we can certainly consider moving forward, but we also don't want to cause hard feelings. Currently we use answer ratings as a means to help determine who to route questions to in the future. I'd love to hear other people's thoughts on this...
Nstorm
This is a very good idea as if I know my answer is rated as not helpful so I don't send it again and it it is rated helpful I can feel happy!
Liz
I do not think it is a good idea. You can type 'pass' if you feel you are not qualified to answer, or if you think the person was too uninterested to find the answer themselves or 'see' to see what other have answered but no grades, please.
Sec
I think this is a good idea, but there should be a way to give feedback without telling the person what you rated them as.
Joachim
I agree with Andrew. Bad ratings are for bad answers. If you give a good answer, there might be some idiot who thinks it is funny to give a bad rating... but the law of averages will do its work.
Wonder how this ratingsystem will motivate people to boost their ratings through the use of multiple profiles so that they can redirect question to themselves.
Andrew
I think this would be a great added feature. I think the positive reinforcement would encourage more and better answers.
Dimitrios-Georgios
In my opinion, anonymous statistics that show how someone's answers have gone the last periods of time would be an interesting and helpful approach for everyone.
Luciano
Hi, I think that getting to know if the answer was helpful or not would really help to identify "improvement opportunities" Considering that the lack of feedback by itself (some people don't even say thank you) is the ultimate way to cause hard feelings, I'd love to at least have the feedback to myself, I don't think that there is a need to make it public like in a rating system or something.
Ann
Combining this with another suggestion to mark the question as "solved" or "answered" or "abandoned" or "withdrawn" would be useful. I.e. when you ask a question and the matter is over for you, you should have to mark what is most appropriate. Like "solved the problem, partially solved the problem, didn't help but I appreciate the effort, unhelpful bc I didn't understand the answer, the answer itself didn't solve the problem".
Travis
@Lukáš: Okay, I get it. In that case, if you don't want people getting hard feelings, the already used "yes", "Kind of, but not for me", and "no" feedback buttons can be used. If someone says no, they could be saying its a four on a scale of one to 10, or one. you wouldn't know. If that made sense?
Lukáš
@Travis True, from longer perspective it would help, but I was thinking more about "Did the answer I sent help the questioner?"
Anyway it would still be useful, even if compiled.
Travis
@Lukáš: Well I was just thinking it could help in general. If my rating in general was very low, I would know that I need to put more thought into my answers.
Lukáš
@Travis: It would not tell you, whether a particular answer was good or bad so it will add no feedback.
Travis
If you're concerned about "hard feelings", why don't you simply compile the list of positive and negative ratings into one thing? For example, your page may say "Bob, you have 7 positive ratings and 4 negative ratings". That way they can tell in general what people think of their answers, without knowing who specifically said their answer was bad.
Alexander
One of the only ways to refine feedback systems, to create positive reinforcement loops, is to make sure that the originator receives positive or negative reinforcement for their activity. Currently, aside from "thanks," we're missing part of that positive reinforcement feedback, making it harder to know what people consider "a good answer" versus "a bad answer."
Since routing is done automatically anyway, there's probably less the fear about creating a sense of hard feel... more
One of the only ways to refine feedback systems, to create positive reinforcement loops, is to make sure that the originator receives positive or negative reinforcement for their activity. Currently, aside from "thanks," we're missing part of that positive reinforcement feedback, making it harder to know what people consider "a good answer" versus "a bad answer."
Since routing is done automatically anyway, there's probably less the fear about creating a sense of hard feelings and more to gain from feedback to the users about the quality of their answers. You don't get to pick who/where your questions come from or go to (which might be another thing to think about adding altogether; the ability to say "no longer send my questions to this person"), which reduces the impact it could have.