What's with the new Q&A set up?

[DanDeceuster]

In the old Q&A set up your response was automatically given a thumbs up by you so that you got a mozpoint for every response you gave. Now you have to manually thumb up your responses. Why was this change made? Can we get it back to the way it was?

[AaronSchinke]

It is kind of weird manually giving yourself the thumb.

[DanDeceuster]

I gave you a thumbs up for reply so that it feels a little less awkward

[BlinkWeb]

I noticed that too. Kinda sucks. SEOmoz doesnt want to comp too many memberships i guess. Kinda lame, good thing SEOmoz is awesome, willing to overlook it.

BTW it's funny that you noticed that, yet neglected to thumbs up your own post on a question about the very subject.

[DanDeceuster]

Good call, thumbs up for that I will overlook it as well, it would just be nice to not have to remember to do it all the time.

[AlanBleiweiss]

There's bugs I think.  Questions still showing as unanswered even after responses, points not being credited right away after answering (at least that's been my case since last night.  So I reported it over at the help desk.

[jennita]

Hey guys, I'm just about to publish a blog post that talks all about a bunch of new changes. The focus is for people to earn points for not only participating but adding value as well. Sadly we've had people who are only focused on gaming the system and creating silly questions or adding spammy answers just to gain points. So we've taken quite a few measures to give people MORE points for valuable answers/questions and less points for non-valuable ones. The post is going up in the next 20 minutes or so that has quite a bit more information.

Thanks!

Jen

[jennita]

Hey Alan, that isn't a bug. We're asking people to mark questions as "answered" and until they are, they say unanswered. Even though someone has left a response, the question may still not be answered.

[jennita]

Hmm that's actually a bug I believe... I don't think you should be able to thumb yourself up at all. I'll need to check on it, but I think you shouldn't be able to.

[AlanBleiweiss]

That makes a lot of sense - I had been wondering how many people got "answers" that really didn't help as much as another might have had someone not skipped it because it had "appeared" to have already been answered...

[jennita]

Here's the blog post: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/pro-qa-forum-upgrades-changes

[AaronSchinke]

Likewise.

[TaitLarson]

SEO Moz only gives out 20 Moz points per month for responding for asking or answering questions or leaving replies.  After that I you can still thumbs up your own question, response, etc.