Question

I think openstudy has gone too far with medals.

Answer 1

I'm always going on History/English posts, and sometimes I see people giving out direct answers. So I explain to them how the code of conduct is against that. And later I witnessed that a user (I saw him give out direct answers in the past) complained here in openstudy feedback that he had "helped" someone with a lot of questions and then the person took away all the medals he gave that user. So pretty much 90% of the people that give out direct answers do it so they can hurry up and get a medal from the user asking the question. It's the same with smartcents and the new titles. I'm not saying it's bad, I just think that too many people use this site the way it isn't supposed to be used (by being greedy for medals).

Answer 2

Does that paragraph make sense to you? @Abhisar

If you agree, maybe you can put some of this in the openstudy search thing so people can read it. But, they'll probably just ignore it.

Answer 3

Giving out direct answers is against the COC. You can report such activities wnvr found.

Answer 4

That's what I always do when I see someone giving out direct answers.

Answer 5

That's good...in this way u r helping mods in policing the website :)

Answer 6

Yeah, but it's kind of useless.

Answer 7

http://openstudy.com/study#/updates/53f5cf97e4b0f0e909e04090

Answer 8

@Whitemonsterbunny17

Answer 9

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Hmm.. Well I agree that many use the site incorrectly, but that is what mods are for.
If you see a user giving direct answers, report them.
If they are a newer user and they are giving direct answers, they may not know they are doing wrong. In cases such as that, kindly bring it to their awareness.
If it is a user that has been here for a while, and you have told them before not to give direct answers yet reporting is not doing anything after some time, pm some of the mods and they will take care of it.

Answer 10

When there's a new user and I tell them they give out direct answers, they make excuses saying "Oh sorry, I'm new here." Then I say "You don't have an excuse, because you checked the boxes agreeing to the CoC."

Answer 11

Then....they rage quit.

Answer 12

So it's kind of worse if you're new here and you give out direct answers.

Answer 13

Well you have to be more calm about it.
For new users, I usually warn them, and let it go the first time.
If I see them doing it again, I report.

Answer 14

I disagree that new users are worse.
There are some feisty older users out there. ._.

Answer 15

And when I say feisty.... I mean feisty! D:

Answer 16

That's not my point, I'm saying new users should have just read the CoC.

Answer 17

Oh, well yes, I completely agree.

Answer 18

I don't know how they could make it so that they HAVE to read the CoC.

Answer 19

Just making sense here, you shouldn't give anyone a warning.

Answer 20

No? Why not?

Answer 21

Cause they don't have any excuse.

Answer 22

Hmpfh, I guess that's true.
What I think is that we need to find a way to ensure everyone has read over the CoC before joining.
In thought, they could add a little quiz thing to test people before they can join..

Answer 23

That's the jobs of the mods.

Answer 24

What is?

Answer 25

The think you just said up there.

Answer 26

*thing

Answer 27

That's not the job of the mods.
The job of the mods is to maintain the site.
Which means filtering out bad users, ensuring everyone is following the site's terms, etc.
The ambassadors also have the job of ensuring everyone is following the site's terms, but they do not have any tools. They are users like you and I.

Answer 28

Then who's job is to put up that stuff to make sure that nobody breaks the CoC?

Answer 29

To make sure users read it?

Answer 30

Or to stop people from breaking the CoC?

Answer 31

To make sure users read it.

Answer 32

That's the company's job.

Answer 33

So those who own this site, it is their "job" to ensure users accept the CoC.
Notice how I said accept... It is the user themself who needs to make sure they read it.
After they accept it, anything they do against it is their own fault. Not the company's, not the mods, not the ambis.

Answer 34

It's not like they'll actually do that.

Answer 35

They probably don't even know people are doing that.

Answer 36

I suppose that if the company must ensure that users accept it, it is the company's "job" to make sure people read it, too.

Answer 37

Well, if a big enough deal is made about it, I'm sure they'll change it. ;p

Answer 38

I could make a post to try to get their attention with.
I'll need some more ideas on how they could make sure people read it before joining, first.

Answer 39

If you think of anything, pm me.