We believe in the Validation of Answers and Experts is important. It seems even more important in this new world of “FAKE” News and Content. Here is how we currently rate content.
Our Answer Content currently has 4 tiers.
Tier 0. No validation has been done. There is no user community validation, expert, or administrative validation. Quite often this content will not be of high quality. It is possible that this is new content and just hasn’t gone through user and expert validation. We recommend using your own judgment as always on all content but if this content is older it is most likely not worth your time. If negative votes are applied to this content to further invalidate it then it will be removed.
Tier 1. Some low level of validation has been done typically by users upvoting. If the content is relatively new it could just not have been evaluated enough but if it’s old then so far the community doesn’t rate this very high.
Tier 2. Mid-range validation of answer content. This means that either many users of the community have found the content valuable or there is some level of our own validated community experts that have weighed in and validated this content.
Tier 3. Expert or Administrative validation has been done. There is a high degree of quality and trust in this content from experts and users. (It is still possible it could be wrong but it’s considered validated by the experts at this time.)
We are looking to find the optimal way to validate content and look for additional feedback from the user community. We will not be perfect but we will try very hard to do this in order to get the user experience better and better.