I have been asking for the questioner (and only the person asking the question) to be able to downvote an answer and remove any points associated with the irrelevant answer. I do not suggest this is anonymous, and I do not suggest anyone but the questioner be given that ability. I know that previously, anyone could downvote for any reason and that this was done anonymously.
I don't ask many questions and when I do, they are very specific questions. I'm often dismayed that the person answering has obviously NOT read the whole question or worse, is plainly scamming the Research Gate score system.
The whole idea is to remove any points the scammer has obtained for answering the question so that they STOP giving, worse than useless answers. i.e. it removes any incentive to reply and game the system.
Better still would be the ability to delete such an answer from our questions but I doubt we could ever get that.
Be warned, I already report such answers to Admin. You are welcome to join the discussion but don't give a scam answer!
Omar is one of those people I would downvote. On the 18th of Jan, he made 79 comments to questions and maybe 3 or 4 are real comments.
I just figured out that this main score seems to be related to asking and answering questions, which seems to be rather unrelated to how well you do research and more related to how well you use every nook and cranny of the website. Rather silly in my opinion.
It's more than just that. It's reads, recommendations, papers published and unpublished listed on RG. How it is calculated changes often. But yes the score is unrelated to how good you are as a researcher.
Having the ability to downvote and remove points from a scammer like Omar shown above, would reduce some of the bullshit.
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