09-25-2020, 09:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-25-2020, 10:16 PM by Dendrocalamus64.)
(09-25-2020, 02:10 PM)LazLong Wrote: Suggestion: It seems that if posts rather than reputation were able to be voted up it could make more
valuable/useful posts more visible and discoverable.
In theory that's what's happening. You can vote posts up/down from the thread, and users themselves from their profile page, but mostly people are using the former. There's just no ready interface for listing <time period>'s posts ranked by number of upvotes, even though the information is in the database.
Plus-voting is gameable too, through tit-for-tat upvoting or multi-accounting. But it doesn't cause the strife that negging does, people tend to like it, and it can encourage people to contribute. If there's going to be a successor "like" system, I'd like to see the existing post upvotes imported into it so people don't feel they've lost what they've earned.
Would it be possible to run a script server-side once an hour that scans the user database for downvotes, deletes them, and sends an automated PM to the downvoter letting them know that that half of the system is no longer to be used, and will not persist even if they do? Then the mods wouldn't have to do anything.
I don't blame LinAdmin for this. It started with them getting downvote-bombed by multiple users for expressing unpopular sentiments, then they downvoted back (and there was no clearly posted rule against that), and then multiple users discovered that they could carpet-downvote and nothing would happen, and several people started doing it.