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re: What's the point of the upvote/downvote system?
Posted on 8/7/14 at 11:22 am to UL-SabanRival
Posted on 8/7/14 at 11:22 am to UL-SabanRival
You forgot the third reason:
We just don't want to tell you.
It's a fricking downvote, let it go. You're acting like this truly effects your life in some significant way.
We just don't want to tell you.
It's a fricking downvote, let it go. You're acting like this truly effects your life in some significant way.
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Posted on 8/7/14 at 11:26 am to RummelTiger
Downvoted
Posted on 8/7/14 at 11:33 am to fr33manator
quote:to fuel clicks? how does TD benefit from someone clicking the up or down vote?
Just to fuel clicks?
quote:still figuring it out, but any plan would have required the feature be used extensively...it has taken some time for people to get used to it...over time, there will be some good uses for it.
Tell me y'all have something planned for them
Posted on 8/7/14 at 11:46 am to Chicken
Any utilization, whether it be user rating, thread rating, etc., would drive up use. Right now, there's not much incentive to use it other than maybe personal satisfaction.
I do find that when I skim through a thread, I'll stop to read a highly/badly voted comment.
I do find that when I skim through a thread, I'll stop to read a highly/badly voted comment.
This post was edited on 8/7/14 at 11:47 am
Posted on 8/7/14 at 11:50 am to Chicken
quote:
how does TD benefit from someone clicking the up or down vote?
Well on mobile, it takes two whole new page loads to up or down vote a post. I imagine that may help some numbers, not that there's anything wrong with that...
Posted on 8/7/14 at 11:56 am to Chicken
Maybe something like make a reply a top reply after a certain amount of up votes. This site is very cliquish though so I don't know how that would work.
Posted on 8/7/14 at 1:35 pm to Chicken
I'm still letting it go, but I really thought they were or could be a way to gauge or poll public opinion on subjects, products, trends, etc., but the personal grudge and popularity/unpopularity of poster factors would seem to distort the results. Basically, The Rex Effect. Of course, I guess you could cancel a lot of that out in the maths.
People get banned on Reddit and elsewhere when they get enough down votes, correct? As a result, one side of the aisle has decimated the other and there is very little discourse.
Found this article on the voting herd mentality.
LINK
People get banned on Reddit and elsewhere when they get enough down votes, correct? As a result, one side of the aisle has decimated the other and there is very little discourse.
Found this article on the voting herd mentality.
LINK
Posted on 8/8/14 at 1:02 am to UL-SabanRival
quote:Alls I know is when people in authority don't answer such questions it is because they don't know the answers and don't want to look stupid.
Alls I know is that when people don't answer such questions, it's either because they don't think others will understand the answer or that they won't like the answer.
Posted on 8/8/14 at 7:05 am to Chicken
Hey brah, what you think of that idea I posted the other day?
Posted on 8/8/14 at 10:01 am to boom roasted
quote:
I like the idea of a post changing color after _____ number of upvotes.
It would also be cool to see how "well-liked" someone is based on an upvote/downvote ratio across all posts, perhaps another color scheme or some kind of status designation. I know I know, way too time-consuming but would be a cool idea.
Posted on 8/8/14 at 1:59 pm to LewDawg
quote:I swear I saw that once here. I don't know if they were testing but there was definitely a pinned post under the OP.
Maybe something like make a reply a top reply after a certain amount of up votes. This site is very cliquish though so I don't know how that would work.
Posted on 8/8/14 at 2:05 pm to tween the hedges
Admins can do it, but the top reply feature is rarely utilized.
Posted on 8/8/14 at 6:20 pm to CockHolliday
quote:
It would also be cool to see how "well-liked" someone is based on an upvote/downvote ratio across all posts, perhaps another color scheme or some kind of status designation. I know I know, way too time-consuming but would be a cool idea.
It would be meaningless. People would downvote each other out of spite or just to frick with them. Everybody would end up being the same color.
Posted on 8/8/14 at 6:28 pm to tween the hedges
quote:
I swear I saw that once here. I don't know if they were testing but there was definitely a pinned post under the OP.
Here's another example.
LINK
Posted on 8/8/14 at 6:36 pm to UL-SabanRival
quote:
It would be meaningless. People would downvote each other out of spite or just to frick with them.
yeah, the only way to combat that is to limit how many times you can upvote/downvote in a certain amount of time.
I'm against a karma system. it's pointless.
Posted on 8/8/14 at 8:59 pm to Sentrius
Admin rummy droppin the B word on that nerd meant a lot.
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