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pacman
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Will one of out more learned friends please respond to this question on chiphacker chiphacker.com/questions/441/is-propeller-a-good-product. I don't have enough experience to give the answer justice...
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Also interesting is the way their site is structured. From their FAQ, apparently they treat answers as commodities, and members get "paid" in reputation points. The amount of points that they have indicate their value to the forum, and their access level.
I'm not quite sure why the reputation points are valuable though. Perhaps it is analogous to the way that people waste their life playing strategy computer games: they feel that what they do is important or somehow a goal that should be aspired to. I suppose that if you're going to make a game of it then "Chiphacker" is a productive way to go about it.
What ends up happening is good answers do get promoted, and the site directly profits from those efforts. Reputation ends up giving the contributor an ego stroke, but not hard dollars, or if hard dollars, not many at all
No worries there. Either that's your thing, or it isn't.
Some people then will become proficient at well reasoned answers that don't contain a lot of original content, or are just very clearly articulated. The value in this is dubious as the average joe could arrive at that kind of answer for 10 minutes thinking it through, it's just quicker...
IMHO, these kinds of answers will dominate the ones that add real value, increasing the noise floor, despite the whole structure being designed to prevent that.
In the end, good communities are a factor of their members, not so much the structure of the venue itself.
To be really clear, I'm not poo-pooing the forum. Might be a fun community. I just don't think it would align well with the average contributor here, that's all.
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Perhaps you mis-understood me. I was only asking that someone with at least half a clue (so that removes me) responds in a civilised, knowledgeable (again removing me) way.
I was not asking people to join and get bombarded by noise or have _another_ place to discuss the prop (this forum is the perfect place to do it 'PROPerly').
I was only trying to introduce a new recruit(s) to the wonderful prop chip. Who knows, they may be the next Mike Green, or design the next way cool thing (I'm looking at you Rayman/Peter Jakacki for you recent excellent work on LCD's).
Having said that, I thank both those that did respond and those that didn't and those who bothered reading this far.
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Paul
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I'm not particularly interested in revisiting the site, I just figured that if someone asked a question I knew the answer to I'd try and put down what I thought was relevant. I certainly didn't sign up and I'm sure not looking for any renumeration for answering a simple question.
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