The merit system already does that: Good, correct technical posts there tend to get showered with merit, whereas false and stupid posts of all kinds usually get none.
Also, good/detailed/accurate information usually got merit which can help member to find out which posts have accurate info or not.
The main purpose of the merit system is to avoid very low quality posts and topics but the specificity of technical discussions makes it inappropriate
- merit points are not controlled.
- can be given to anyone who adds you new information.
sometimes I rely on the posts that gets merits from
achow101.
Unfortunately, I dont see any easy solution to this, nor how a benign technical trust system would not be redundant. Setting a system to be the arbiter of true and false is alwaysproblematic. Is this proposal supposed to function as some sort of peer review? The merit system already does that: Good, correct technical posts there tend to get showered with merit, whereas false and stupid posts of all kinds usually get none.
Id like to find a better solution to this problem. I doubt this be it. Am I missing anything?
The main purpose of my suggestion is that this forum is considered a reference for the most of those who want to learn.
Developers posts deserve a privilege "Technical Trust or Anything that makes me concentrate on post".
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Let's focus on suggestions to solve this problem (if you consider it a problem)