The Connect site uses a standard template. However, many of the sections do not remain applicable.
The questions you pose on Connect add to the counts of posts. If you accept any answer, then that will add to the count of “Total Solutions Marked Accepted”.
If somebody accepts your answer as a solution, that will appear under a separate tab but will not in the Statistics.
A has posted an idea to remove that anomaly. You can vote for that.
Thanks… I know connect use standard templet… But it’s also see q&a… Can you clarify in detail? Because we also ask questions threw how-tos category. So why not they count?
I did a little research too and discovered that there are certain features on Connect that we cannot access or are not yet available for use, such as the Contests, Questions, Answers and Reviews as you have highlighted. In those categories, we are all at zero.
Is this a new game, @KishorMali ? Asking about subject that has been asked several times already and offering solutionist badges?
While I agree with you that the answer is correct, the same answer can be found with a search.
Of course in Connect we ask questions, but we do through a standard post, normally labelled as “how to”. This is not related to the Q&A category shown on your screenshot, that is part of a standard structure.
Please read this post to know how to be helpful, without filling connect of post with questions that have been answered several times: Need Help? - Help Us to Help You
My feeling is that we need, especially the Local Guides with more experience, to help others to find again the real values of being a Local Guide, that are to contribute with contents in Google Maps and in Connect.
While we are all happy of our achievement, focusing on badge only we can loose the focus of “why we are Local Guides”.
I see too many Local Guides focusing just on Badges, people writing a post because they receive a like, then a new post because they receive a badge for the first post, then a new post because they receive five likes, and so on.
This is the sense of my answer, that do not want to diminish the value of @Zino answer, but wants to focus back on the core values of the community
In this, I am looking for the help of every Local Guide
Thank you very much for your insight @ErmesT . The core values of our community are values that I live by. Value 3 which is “We’re helpful” is one that resonates with me often. How do you propose we bring back focus on the core values of our community?
@KishorMali It is very important to search before you ask any question on Connect because it is highly possible that such question has been asked and answered before, as I have pointed out.
Yes, I think that time by times we need to recall that core values, @Zino , because most of the newcomers seems to be more interested in getting badges, than in real contributions and, because of this, other local Guides have to spend time to flag inappropriate photos, duplicate POIs, and so on, or merge post here.
I will not call an issue what you mentioned in your post @KishorMali . An issue is something different…
Simply Connect is hosted on standard Forum platform, where there are functions that we do not use. That’s all
OF BADGES !!!