What you *really* want is a reaction for "this post is full of good information and worth reading."
I understand that views of threads sorted by Reactions scores is one of xenForo's future goals.
The goal ought to be to curate the threads/posts so someone looking for information can find something that is not full of nonsense, incorrect, irrelevant, or off-topic info.
Our first attempt at organizing "curated posts" is the
ScubaBoard Knowledge Base. These threads go through a nomination process and every ScubaBoard Staff member can vote. A no vote is a veto. It is a pretty labor intensive process. The
Member's Picks forum is another attempt to make especially good threads easier to find.
The "Question thread type" was introduced by xenForo in the last our last upgrade. It allows members to vote up or down replies and the OP to mark a Reply as the best answer. At some point, sorting members and posts by this score may be an option.
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I would like to see this new feature used more, but changes take time.
Resources is another new feature that is curated by staff to a less stringent standard than the Knowledge Base.
On the plus side, incorrect information rarely goes unchallenged on Internet forums in general and ScubaBoard in particular. Reading those debates can be very informative, but requires a lot of reading.
Of course these comments should NOT be construed as meeting the objective of this thread. Experiments and baby steps toward that end perhaps, but far from meeting the goal.
The likes and other reactions are relatively worthless, especially if you include the "Non-Diving Related Stuff", "The Pub" and "Surface Interval". As per @tursiops who is really going to curate the quality of posts, nobody.
Worthless might be a little overstated, especially for readers new to ScubaBoard. It is an indicator, imperfect as it may be. Message counts, Reaction scores, and all the information on our "About" pages are clues for people to
begin evaluating the members behind the posts.
I think it is helpful to focus on the needs of newer and less experienced readers (guests and members). Frequent readers develop opinions of the value of other member's posts, but it takes a lot of time.
