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1497Currently, we get 1 point for a forum post or a comment, 3 points for a blog entry, and 5 points for a book post. However, the actual value of a post varies significantly. It can be a question, or an answer that is not very helpful, or an answer with a workaround etc. Perhaps, that could be included in the point calculation. Something like the MSDN scheme:
| Action | Points |
| You reply to a question or bug thread started by another user | 2 |
| Your reply is marked as the answer | 10 |
| Your reply is voted as being helpful | 5 x (# of votes) |
| Your reply to a bug thread is marked as a workaround | 10 |
| You submit a bug that is resolved as fixed by Microsoft | 20 |
| A bug you submitted is validated by another user | 4 x (# of validations) |
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Good suggestion
It certainly would be good to be able to add more criteria for Maple Points, however, the module we are using doesn't support this amount of customization. I will add this suggestion to the list of improvements for the next major release of Primes.
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William Spaetzel
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Another difference with MSDN forum
Another difference between these forums and MSDN forums is that Microsoft developers actively participate practically in every thread. The moderators are project leads and program leads and they are the most active participants.
Usually a thread develops as follows. Somebody posts a bug or a question related to some product. Almost immediately you see a response either from a developer who wrote it, or from a moderator (who supervised it). Then few more users either confirm bug or not, or suggest a workaround if it wasn't suggested by the developer or the moderator. And if it was really a bug, next day, or in 3 or 4 days, a patch is posted correcting it.
The situation here is completely different. It looks as if Maplesoft developers are not especially interested in discussions related to their work (with notable exception of Dr. Paulina Chin.)
Alec
a difference between MS and Maplesoft
Alec,
My guessing is that Maple is somewhat short on developpers and if they leap around here their work is not be done. One simply can not compare due to size and money. For me it is not unreasonable that only a few participate, it is expensive (for example at our company the 'coders' are strictly forbidden to comment on errors within projects).
Forbidden?
Forbidden? I didn't think about that. That would explain it.
Actually, I wondered about that a long time ago - when I posted in the Maple newsgroup regularly, together with a series of other people, some of whom are active on this site, too. None of us worked at Maplesoft (at that time). And I tried to understand - why in the Mathematica newsgroup the most active posters were people working in Wolfram Research while posts from people working at Maplesoft in the Maple newsgroup were a big rarity.
At that time, I thought that the difference was that Mathematica newsgroup was moderated - that made discussions more civilized. But now - this site is moderated, so that shouldn't be a difference. The lack of interest was the only one explanation that I could find. But if it's forbidden - that's different. That would explain it.
Alec
Correction
I spent some time today reading last year posts that I missed and found out that the situation is not that bad as I thought. Many Maplesoft people posted some interesting and useful material. Dave Linder, for instance. Besides, Joe Riel works at Maplesoft - I just considered him being "Maple expert" rather than Maplesoft representative.
Alec