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#21 User is offline   Vampyr 

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Posted 2011-June-01, 21:01

 Fluffy, on 2011-June-01, 20:34, said:

lol to upvotes, anyone can create an smurf account and upvote himself as many times as he wants to


Would anyone really be pathetic enough to do that though?
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Posted 2011-June-01, 22:25

The silliest thing is you have no idea to see which of your posts have been upvoted. If you post a lot, you can just see your rep go up but might have no idea which posts people liked/upvoted, so it doesn't help much for positive reinforcement. Even if it remains anonymous, you should be able to see which of your posts get upvoted when it happens via some sort of notification.
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Posted 2011-June-02, 10:49

Please give my plus to the ho.
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Posted 2011-June-02, 13:43

or perhaps we could all go and upvote someone so he feels relieved, since shubi (or was it his name?) is not around anymore I propose pirate22 or TWOferBride
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Posted 2011-June-02, 19:29

I liked this thread until I saw that even Fluffy got upvotes :angry:

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Posted 2011-June-02, 20:58

I approve a hundred fold of this thread!
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Posted 2011-June-03, 06:55

When can you get downvotes? It could turn the Fora into an interesting war...

 wyman, on 2012-May-04, 09:48, said:

Also, he rates to not have a heart void when he leads the ♥3.


 rbforster, on 2012-May-20, 21:04, said:

Besides playing for fun, most people also like to play bridge to win


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Posted 2011-June-03, 12:35

 Fluffy, on 2011-June-01, 20:34, said:

lol to upvotes, anyone can create an smurf account and upvote himself as many times as he wants to

Until Azrael takes care of him...

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Posted 2011-June-03, 18:00

 Trinidad, on 2011-June-03, 12:35, said:

Until Azrael takes care of him...

Rik


That's funny. When I watched Smurfs he had a different name.
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Posted 2011-June-04, 12:18

I wonder if we should upvote for Bridge reasons......, but than why should we.
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Posted 2011-June-05, 11:49

I think this is all part of GWNN's crusade to get bbo to allow downvotes!
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Posted 2011-June-05, 15:12

 matmat, on 2011-June-05, 11:49, said:

I think this is all part of GWNN's crusade to get bbo to allow downvotes!


I wish him lots of luck in that crusade. I don't understand why they're disabled.
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Posted 2011-June-05, 15:38

 Elianna, on 2011-June-05, 15:12, said:

I wish him lots of luck in that crusade. I don't understand why they're disabled.


That feature has been disabled to prevent matmat from having a negative reputation. duh.
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Posted 2011-June-05, 16:32

 Elianna, on 2011-June-05, 15:12, said:

I wish him lots of luck in that crusade. I don't understand why they're disabled.


I'm not sure, but on some forums the negative voting can contribute to flame wars, hurt feelings, and poorer quality posts. Maybe that is why they are disabled here?
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Posted 2011-June-05, 17:05

 Mbodell, on 2011-June-05, 16:32, said:

I'm not sure, but on some forums the negative voting can contribute to flame wars, hurt feelings, and poorer quality posts. Maybe that is why they are disabled here?

Well, over the last year or two, BBF has had flame wars, hurt feelings, and the quality of posts going down.
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Posted 2011-June-05, 17:12

 cherdano, on 2011-June-05, 17:05, said:

Well, over the last year or two, BBF has had flame wars, hurt feelings, and the quality of posts going down.


I expect proof of this assertion to appear shortly.
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Posted 2011-June-05, 17:47

 matmat, on 2011-June-05, 15:38, said:

That feature has been disabled to prevent matmat from having a negative reputation. duh.


I'd vote you up!


 Mbodell, on 2011-June-05, 16:32, said:

I'm not sure, but on some forums the negative voting can contribute to flame wars, hurt feelings, and poorer quality posts. Maybe that is why they are disabled here?


Maybe, but on other forums it does a good job of keeping really bad posts from being easily read. It drops them from view, or down the queue. I rather like how it's implemented on StackOverflow, and am not quite sure why we don't have something like that here.
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Posted 2011-June-05, 20:48

On another forum (I'm not bothering to name it because I would bet money that no one who's posted in this thread is a regular member) they have a whole array of voting choices on the bottom of posts. The choices include "agree" and "disagree". It works really well in the part of the forum that is related to technique, although there is some wanking about "phantom disagreers", but not as much as could be expected.

Basically, the agree and disagree aren't up and down votes, so they remain displayed, and you can see if a post is controversial, widely agreed with, widely disagreed with, or a non-boat-rocker.

Other choices include "educational" and "interesting". I think that's even better than just having a vote up button, because there are many reasons people might want to vote up a post, and this is more specific.
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Posted 2011-June-05, 22:26

 Elianna, on 2011-June-05, 20:48, said:

On another forum (I'm not bothering to name it because I would bet money that no one who's posted in this thread is a regular member) they have a whole array of voting choices on the bottom of posts. The choices include "agree" and "disagree". It works really well in the part of the forum that is related to technique, although there is some wanking about "phantom disagreers", but not as much as could be expected.


ravelry forums?

 Elianna, on 2011-June-05, 20:48, said:

Basically, the agree and disagree aren't up and down votes, so they remain displayed, and you can see if a post is controversial, widely agreed with, widely disagreed with, or a non-boat-rocker.

Other choices include "educational" and "interesting". I think that's even better than just having a vote up button, because there are many reasons people might want to vote up a post, and this is more specific.


I agree that this would be good to have. I'm not sure it is that important though if it were hard for bbo to implement. But yes it sounds good if it is a priority.
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Posted 2011-June-05, 23:52

 Mbodell, on 2011-June-05, 22:26, said:

ravelry forums?


How did you know?
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