We have been playing around with up/down vote functionality for the past couple of weeks and just activated it in the Lounge prior to this thread.
1. Everyone can vote a post up or down. The vote totals themselves show up on the bottom right of the post. You can't vote on your own posts (the up/down vote is hidden), but you will see the totals once it's voted on.
2. If a post meets some criteria for being "good," the post will be given a yellow border (so that others are drawn to the "good posts" in a big thread).
3. Similarly, if a post meets some criteria for a "bad post," it will be shaded. If a post meets criteria for a "terrible post," it will be shown collapsed with a red bar. The red bar of a collapsed post shows the user's name, and you can click a button at the right to show the post.
4. This functionality doesn't mess with the order of posts.
I'm using "some criteria" only because we're sure it'll change. The border, shading, and collapsed posts are based on the difference between up and down votes, not a total number of one or the other. We'll be making adjustments based on usage, especially with collapsed posts.
We have questions about whether it'll work here vs a place like reddit. A few of us like the idea while others have brought up legitimate concerns. In the end, we decided to roll it out, at least temporarily.
This is a trial run.
We'll give it a week or two depending on how things go, then we'll put it to a vote as long as it's not an obviously terrible idea. The goal is make threads a little easier to scroll through -- easier to find the best contributions and easier to scroll past the trolling and derailments. We aren't out to completely hide posts and will adjust as needed to keep that percentage really low, or based on your feedback. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Pablo:
Game threads move too quickly for this to really be of any use. You might get a couple of people to upvote a post before you're on another page.
The threads immediately following the game might be a good barometer.
Originally Posted by RealSNR:
Nobody seems to be using this feature in the general forum.
*cough*
In this thread, a yellow border was around a mod post chiding Sweet Daddy Hate, whose post was greyed out. Essentially, the only "in nature" use of this function has HEIGHTENED the drama that people want to avoid. People bitching about how "there's no news here anymore and too many derailed threads" are going to get it way worse when they find that the only important posts that this feature reveals are the ones that are faction against faction.
I mean, yes, continue the trial period, but I can predict with a good amount of certainty that this idea will fail spectacularly. [Reply]
i really dont think it will be all that useful honestly
just another way that losers can use their passive aggressive tendencies to hurl anonymous insults at their enemies and rub the cock and balls of their butt-lovers
maybe if we could see the names of those thumbs upping and downing everything it might be more useful
or maybe if you only got like a few thumbs up and downs per day, like rep..
i dunno
i am resistant to change tho so its probably just me [Reply]
Actually, now that I think about it, I like the up/down vote option but I don't care for posts being hidden or highlighted based on what everyone else thinks. [Reply]
