thumb up, thumb down, thumb in the eye

Thumbs down for being illegible.

Interesting color combinations.



What if you find the whole process of voting to be insipid, a waste of time and something you personally are uninterested in? Isn't that a good reason to cede it to others who don't?

Cycloptichorn

Aren't you doing the same thing when you make assumptions about the motives behind the thumbs down and the people giving them?

For all you know, 25 people may have voted it down and 17 more people voted it up so that the net result for the moment in time when you viewed it was -8. If 16 more people vote it up to give it a +8 will you still be labeling people as bottom feeders because they choose to customize their A2K experience to their own liking?

thats ok, i expected arbitrary kraven
try ctrl a (hold down the control key with a key)

I have sometimes voted up when I noticed lots of votes down and it appears to be just out of "meanness". I don't now if I have actually voted down yet - but I may if I feel what is said is a$$ine.

You can highlight all that yellow text. The words are easily read, and still illegible.

What you got here, are a number of people not wanting to clutter up their display with threads they are uninterested in. I am one of them.

A thumb in the eye sounds painful.

my point is no post were thumbed in the whole thread .... not even mine, just the thread.
methinks thou doth protest too much .... couldest thou be a moderator hmmmm

If customizing my viewing on the site to my personal liking means that I'm a moderator then you betcha! I'm a moderator of my very own customized A2K that is for me and me only. Guess what? You can moderate your version of it too!

I'm one of the "bottom feeders" who chooses to customize the site to my personal interests by using the vote mechanism to collapse topics I'm not interested in repeatedly seeing in my New Posts list. I do this so that the time I spend here is for reading what interests me rather than scrolling down pages and pages of stuff that doesn't interest me. Personally, I'd rather just have a collapse/expand topic mechanism without a vote count, but that's all we have at the moment.

Why would I go into a thread I have no interest in to vote down posts in it if all I want to do is collapse the entire thread so it is out of my view on the New Posts list?

If you have no interest in the Food category, should you be required to visit each topic and vote on each post if all you wish to do is collapse all the topics on Food so your List only has the Games threads that you participate in?

So you can look at a thread's name and tell if there is anything that would interest you and based on that information give it a positive or in this instance a negative rating? When do you think there will be a time when only threads you like pop up and you can just sit there knowing you won't have to choose because you can determine a book by it's cover.
We have been told that the numbers are meaningless.... then why are they there? Does anyone out there think negative numbers, are positive?

Wow - thin skinned or what?

The thumbs down just mean some people aren't interested in a thread called 'Just whatever ' - with a subject like that you don't have to read 900 posts. It doesn't mean they think it's shite, or they have a personal vendetta against you. They just aren't interested. Is that OK? Or does our lack of interest constitute and attack on your personal liberty and your measure of self worth?

Sorry. In crappy mood. Tired of all the angst displayed while people figure out the new A2K.

Come on, you're a lot smarter than this Gelisgesti.

You bemoaned about why people were thumbing down your thread without having voted on any of the individual posts.

Just because I don't vote down specific posts in a thread doesn't mean I did not open the thread to scan what it was about before using the vote mechanism to collapse the topic from my New Posts view. The same thing happened on the old A2K. Lots of folks opened threads to see what they're about but never participated with a post in them. The number of replies on a thread rarely if ever match the number of views on a thread. The difference is that now we get to customize our List Views on A2K to suit our own personal preferences. As I said before, I wish we had a way to collapse topics from view without it being a vote, but we don't.

Ge, you really are over-reacting.




That is how it is SUPPOSED to work.

Those folk were not necessarily saying they didn't like the thread, or you, they were saying they didn't want the thread showing when they search, because they do not wish to POST in it.

You and those who love the thread just tag it, and it will always be findable for you, and for those of us who have "no collapse" in their preferences.

Have a look round and get used to the place before getting so distressed.

hoping that when i use the "collapse" feature , this is NOT going to happen to me !
hbg

The info in this other thread might be helpful to you too:

http://able2know.org/topic/121186-1

I'll post it here for you so you don't have to look further if you don't wish to:

I just didn't like being either good or bad, white hat or black, with us or against us '. Bushisms ...... division.

anyhow thx dl

I'm with ya, doug. I may not always reply, but I read your threads.

Thanks Ed .... I got 'just whatever' back, I think. It has real small type that says something like 'voted down' then 'view'. I don't know what to do with it.
thx for your support .... hasta la winnebago.

Go to your Profile>Edit Preferences (when you open it up it'll be called My Preferences)>Minimum Topic Votes> select No Minimum

Click Update Preferences.

And that's it.

PS Essentially, the thumbs down means --- I am not interested in this topic (or post) right now. Really. That is the usage for many people. For others, it might be I hate this person or I hate these views or I'm too busy to read this or I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts.

Or whatever. But it doesn't matter, really, now, does it? Some will vote up, others will vote down. Some will take the time to open and read, others won't. That's the way it was before except you didn't see the shading behind it, and even now you're not seeing much shading behind it.

Voting, just like tagging, is going to really get cooking when it's done on a lot of topics by a lot of people. As you see the system maturing (and yes, it is happening right now, actually), you'll see things evening out and other nuances coming out. Plus Craven is working on the voting so even that is going to see some changes.

The vast majority of the time, it's really not meant to be personal. I'm sure most of us think the people who start the trivia topics are fine and wonderful people -- we just don't feel like hanging out in those rooms so right now we are shutting those doors. That is not a value judgment, it's just a door that is currently shut and may or may not be opened again.

I have little doubt that there are topics here that you don't want to read. And you can either scroll past them or you can vote on them and collapse them from your view. Your choice! The philosophy behind this change is and was to give more choice to the individual. So exercise your freedom of choice.

Freedom's a good thing, isn't it?