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]
FWIW, there's now a page in your UserCP (called Helpful Answers) that is a list of your last 50 "thumbs." There's also a "top list" under quick links at the top.
Neither are particularly well-refined, but they're fun to play with. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DaFace:
FWIW, there's now a page in your UserCP (called Helpful Answers) that is a list of your last 50 "thumbs." There's also a "top list" under quick links at the top.
Neither are particularly well-refined, but they're fun to play with.
Huh, interesting. Weird how it shows the total historical number of the post you got the thumb on. [Reply]
I've been using ChiefsPlanet to practice some newfound SQL "skills" (using ChatGPT as a crutch), and I thought it might be fun to dig into the Helpful Answers votes. So here are a bunch of "Top (or bottom) 10 Lists" based on various criteria. All of these are filtered to only include people who have posted at least 100 times in the past year, and all figures only look at posts made in the past year.
Hammock Parties 6645
DJ's left nut 5868
smithandrew051 5529
staylor26 5488
The Franchise 4837
Bearcat 4801
htismaqe 4774
Jewish TLO 4676
Rain Man 4534
TwistedChief 4241
Highest positivity ratio (% of votes that are positive):
This isn't SUPER interesting since a lot of these folks just haven't posted enough to be controversial, but I did restrict this to people who have received at least 100 votes, so it at least is an indication of people who generally don't suck.
Lowest "signal-to-noise" ratio (net votes per post):
There's a bit of a caveat here that you can't vote on posts in DC, so this is pretty much just a list of DCers who never post anything of value outside of that. Still, I think it's interesting to see...
Code:
Snopes Hammer 0.00
Over Yonder 0.00
NinerDoug 0.00
Taco John 0.01
True North 0.01
El Lobo Gordo 0.01
Just Passin' By 0.01
Pogue 0.01
Loneiguana 0.01
Pennywise 0.02
Anyway, this is just for fun, but I do think some of it's interesting... [Reply]
Highest positivity ratio (% of votes that are positive):
This isn't SUPER interesting since a lot of these folks just haven't posted enough to be controversial, but I did restrict this to people who have received at least 100 votes, so it at least is an indication of people who generally don't suck.
I might have made this list, but I like to make jokes about soccer and there's one person who always gives me a thumbs down on those posts. It's worth it, though.
Why did the soccer player cross the road?
To fall down and pretend to be hurt on the other side. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
I might have made this list, but I like to make jokes about soccer and there's one person who always gives me a thumbs down on those posts. It's worth it, though.
Why did the soccer player cross the road?
To fall down and pretend to be hurt on the other side.
Originally Posted by Titty Meat:
You got a list of posters who get reported the most Face?
Reports just post a thread in the mod lounge and aren't otherwise tracked. So the best I could do is keyword searching, and that wouldn't tell us who did the reporting and who was being reported. So...no. Maybe if I get crazy someday and want to try out combining sql and python to parse all the posts... [Reply]
