The Problem with Thumbs up...or Down

Oh, that's cool.

So every time I reply it goes up? (This is a test, too.)

That makes sense -- most replied to are often most valuable/ interesting.

Cooool.

Only once per person. So if you reply to the same thing 10 times it's not going to count for 10 votes. So it's a little more democratized than pure volume of replies.

Not "evidently" at all. People could be voting it for all kinds of reasons. The obvious one being they're just not interested in the subject, or not interested in following a subject like that on a2k. You may think it fascinating, and others will too of course - but yes, there are also a lot of people who find it a "boring issue".


Hardly. The reason your old thread is still at 0 and your new thread is down at -3 is because, well, your old thread is old. And thus likely to be buried deeper in the archive. So a lot fewer people are likely to have seen it in this past week or so since we've had voting. Few people have seen it = few people voting on it = the thread's net score will remain close to 0 or 1.

A new thread you started now, though, will have gotten the whole rush of initial views while voting was already active. So a lot more people will have been voting on it, which makes the chance that it sinks or climbs further away from 0 or 1 proportionally larger.

So no, the comparison doesn't mean what you take it to mean.

that's cool, but wait til they're above -11; all the people who thumbed 'em down will then get upset.

Maybe if they notice, given that they thumbed them down it will be collapsed for them and I don't think they'll care.

Nice tweak.

ah, i see, if a user thumbs down a topic, then regardless of what the user's threshold is or the cumulative topic score, it's always collapsed for the user? then the suggestion i read somewhere to have all threads start with some large positive score like 100 say makes more sense to me than it did on first reading.

Nice tweak!

That was our own musings and was Nick's joke/solution, but we'll probably do something else that makes more sense (like make the thumbs up the primary view).

I see.

I like.

A quick question - with this change if I reply to someone else's post it automaticly gives their post a thumbs up.

What happens if I didn't like their post? If I go back and change it to a thumbs down does it count as a net "-1" or does the thumbs down vote simply cancel out the automatic thumbs up resulting a net "0" vote?

I guess I need to go test it....

I haven't worked my way through this whole thread, and I am, generally, not happy with these A2K changes that seem to be solely for the sake of change (Hey!I'm a conservative), but I cannot ignore an rare opportunity to align myself with Cyclo.

This rating/reputation shite is too similiar to Abuzz for my liking. It can be and will be abused.

I don't really care what my Rep score turns out to be, but this whole scoring business is just a Middle School imperative masked in elitist BS.

We don't need scoring to bypass a thread by Ramafuchs, and the notion that scoring protects new members from Rama is utter BS.

I haven't had the time to explore all the changes but I couldn't agree more with Cyclo - the rating mechanism is an unnecessary and bad addition.

The eventual result will be homogenized (and probably Liberal) circle jerks.

(Pardon my French and please don't rate me down as a result)

OK, I answered my own question. If I go back and give the post I'm replying to a thumbs down it has the net effect of a -1.

If you already have a vote, it won't change it, and you can change the selection afterward just like before.

In my view, the problem with this new voting thing is that it's dual purpose.

1- As a navigation tool, to get topics out of your way which doesn't interest you.

2- As a way to approve or disapprove of someone's topic.

It should be either one, but not both. I think this feature is flawed.

And for heaven's sake, please do away with the "reputation" thing. People can make up their own mind (at least eventually) if they want to reply to any particular poster, or ask them a question.

If i show my tits, can I have a high reputation??

Yes. But only if you do it really quickly.

Cycloptichorn

Absolutely!

*waits*

(but dont bring me that little-blue-bird nonsense, 'k??)

depends on whether your nipples are pointing north or south....