Posted by BrittPark on December 27, 2002, at 23:14:14
In reply to Re: Poster ratings » Dr. Bob, posted by Dinah on December 27, 2002, at 21:27:41
I freely admit that the idea of ratings has some serious problems. They could quite possibly make many people feel less supported. I don't know. The other side of the coin is that there are many desparing people on PB, who are getting bad advice from people who don't know what they are talking about.
In all honesty, I don't know whether ratings would do more harm than good. I can tell well informed advice from drivel, (at least when I'm not severely depressed), but I have a PhD in biology and follow the Psychopharmacological literature. I'm not suggesting that one needs a PhD to tell good from bad advice, but I do think there are probably a lot of people on PB who can't.I think the idea of ratings is worth at least discussing.
Cheers,
Britt
P.S. The reason the idea of ratings occured to me was that most of my posts seem to be corrections to erroneous information. I'm left wondering whom people end up believing. I don't claim to be a fount of all knowledge but I am fairly well informed and do take care not to say anything I can't verify in the literature.
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