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2002-08-16 08:33

TDJ

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1879

Downvoting

A while ago I came up with a (I think) reasonable system that voters would be split in 2 groups, anonymous & non-anonymous. The votes of the non-anonymous voters could be seen by everybody, those from the anonymous users not. The last group would then have a limitted range, let's say from 4 - 7 instead of 1-10.

I haven't heard anything about it since, but the reason I bring it up again is because it has come under my attention that 2 of my groupmembers have been seriously downvoted. And with serious I mean they (Sander & Jeroen Tel) both got a "1" twice.

I guess it can either be that some people who didn't have a clue how this board works voted so low by accident, or that they decided they didn't like the high rankings.

I guess it could also be that they really dislike the work of Sander & Jeroen but that I don't believe ;)

Either way I would like to know if the maintainers of this board already have thought up a solution for this problem. Because if you want to have a serious chart-system these things need to be taken care of.

Any comments?

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2003-07-16 21:47

Derision

Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 69

Hey, I fell up a flight of stairs once...

Ba-dum-bum.

Seriously, though... I don't think you can stop downvoting completely. Let's face it: human nature sucks. Scener #1 was in competition with/didn't get along with/killed the puppy of Scener #2 and so he gets a vote of 1 because Scener #2 is an arse (except in the puppy example, because then I can understand it). It's common practice, especially in the scene.

I think that a transparent voting system will help it a lot... not so much in it's current incarnation (which is a start), in which you can choose to be transparent or not, but in a future where you either have to be transparent or you get limited votes or no vote at all. Because unless they're ready to get hate mail or ostricized, nobody's going to vote a 1 when people can point out who they are.

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