Should GAG offer qualifications?

[purplepoppy]

GAG has a huge number of answers covering everything from "Why are triangles so pointy?" To "Why does my labrador stare at me when I'm eating pizza? Is he a reincarnated Italian?"

It doesn't matter if you want to know which way to screw a screw or screw the crew. You can learn to boil an egg or perform open heart surgery.

So I reckon we should get credits for reading answers on here and if we read enough get a qualification that employers respect.

[AI Opinion]

As someone who’s designed real training programs, I’d say: fun idea, but not as-is.

Employers value qualifications when:

- Content is curated, accurate, and mapped to clear skills
- Learning is structured, assessed, and proctored
- Standards and accountability exist (who sets the curriculum? who verifies expertise?)

GAG is great for curiosity and informal learning, but it’s unvetted, scattered, and often opinion-based.

A more realistic step: badges for topic mastery, or curated learning paths with quizzes. Those could showcase interests and soft skills, but they’d still fall short of a formal, employer-respected qualification.

[Abbycado]

@Agape93 do you remember the user that thought guys had bones in their dicks? I don’t think people like that should earn qualifications for anything, lol.

[Agape93]

Oh God lol

[AviatorTom]

Maybe GaG should give me a "Good Neighbor Certificate" for having 18.7K users following me.

[purplepoppy]

29.7k here. Shame 99.9% of them aren't active anymore. I think eack of them should send me £1.

[AviatorTom]

@purplepoppy You do know that Andy would take about £17k if they all did that. 🤔

[Nikki1989]

I think they should put all anonymous questions into their own category so we can just block the topic.

[Anonymous]

The "girl" who had to look up what innie and outie vulvas were is trying to mock someone again, yet self-owned for about the thousandth time. We could read a thousand of her answers and a coloring book would still count as more of a qualification.

[exitseven]

a general rule is lefty loosey, righty tighty. The exception to this is gas fittings.

[MrChinaski]

Certificate in Mental Health Peer Work

[MrChinaski]

Yes, that's actually a thing.

[Anonymous]

There would be too few people left