Especially in discussions, I've had a tendency to use the recommendation system as a "like" button. However, I wonder if this is a good idea or if we should limit its use to cases where a comment provides detailed information relating to a question, rather than just something that we might like or that might interest us. Thoughts?
Daniel,
You have asked a very important question that I have been asking myself in terms of the perceived goals of RG. My take is that RG is not a site to post trivial questions or answers. Questions and answers should follow some rigor in formulation. In my view it is a site to post information to clarify and further the areas of knowledge.
Some people take to RG as if this was Facebook and I think it trivializes the purpose of the site.
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Arturo Geigel,
Your answer relates to an answer that I gave on another question: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Do_you_think_all_questions_on_researchgate_are_usefull#view=5c35410436d235661a177d25
I do understand that sometimes people just want want to communicate something trivial to the academic world. For instance, if I get to the point where I have an RG score, it would be nice to write a post about that. But it doesn't really make sense to post that as a discussion question. Perhaps if RG had a separate feature for general discussions, or if it had a more detailed annotation system.
It is good that we can only give one recommendation to queston, answer or research; and not more than one, but 'like' cab be given more than once as I have seen, while my course mate was using Facebook sitting next to me, I don't know much about Facebook usage, so...
Daniel,
I think that your suggestion is EXCELLENT! Dividing it into a separate feature will liberate a lot of noise in RG and at the same time provide for communications of a more general type.
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