FCP forum - a bit of a rant

Question

- pass by if you don't hang out here or want to support helpful people. (no humor - only grumpyness...)
One of the great problems with the LAST forum set-up was that if you spent your time helping "new to the forum" users, you often received little if any recognition in the points system. No great insight is required to tell someone to turn on their camera before launching FCP in order to capture, but since each person discovers the forum (and it is only REAL when THEY arrive) this class of response needs to be repeated over and over. As these new users were often totally ignorant of the points system and, since they often only showed up for their one issue then disappeared, they had no incentive to say thank you to those who took the time to help. In their minds, this is all part of the great APPLE machine - why say thank you? However, people who hung around WERE appreciative of things like: humor, community, grumpyness, brilliance etc and recognized the work that was being done.
Now, in the new forum, we have a situation where the ONLY points available are from people - often the new users who are unaware of the format of the forum - who have absolutely no incentive to give feedback. Since these users are either unaware or do not care about the protocols of the forum, no votes for helpfulness/competence are given and the only way a reputation will be built is simply by post count. This seems very wrong to me.
Additionally, I'm noticing fewer of the usual group around here. Perhaps it is me but I am concerned. No one is paid to be here and the only recognition was the points system. Now that seems to be gone or at least seriously compromised ...
So, to new users, if someone has helped you, give them the points. If someone has answered the question, not only mark it answered, give the poster the points. Support the people who help you as they are trying to support you..
rant over. flamesuit on. All responses written on the back of $50 bills will immediately attended to!
cheers.
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powerbooks to the left/ jokers to the right/ stuck in the middle ...   Mac OS X (10.4.3)   been there, haven't done this.

Answer 1

I remember the "Helper" system, which relied on Apple granting the status to a community member. The forums seemed to have more direction back then, a tighter focus if you will.
Of course, even then there were irreverent ones, who shall remain nameless ... with seemingly no ambition to be classified a "Helper" as such, but posted for the communities sake. Many still active.
Not sure at all about the whole points thing which seems to have had a filter applied to it.
And speaking of filters - I had a grip drop his tousers the other day and wiggle his but at the camera. So capture everything b/c there was audio involved, applied Broadcast Safe - and he's still there .. wiggling. I mean that's gotta be a bug, right ?