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2006-09-12 19:16
Laxity

Registered: Aug 2005
Posts: 459
Downvoting, for what reasons?

Seems I got two inverse mega fans. They gave me a set of 1 point votes.

I was a bit interested in finding out who that was, since I've never heard of them or seen any posts from either of them on CSDb.

The votes in question are registered to Auslaender and abracadabra, which is perfectly ok, if they think I suck...

At first I just clicked the abracadabra link and some pretty empty profile with a picture of a magician showed (refered to a guy call Mira, too!). I thought, hmm, strange.. Maybe someone who'd like to conceal himself or something... Didn't think much of it to be honest.

I wasn't untill another one showed. Auslaender!. Strange handle, but then again, we're strange people most of us.. I wonder who that is!.. No profile, when doing a profile search.. Though I'd search the forum for posts, and .. bang... All my indifferent discussions with Nata showed, only Nata showing as Auslaender!.. Sigh!.. Why?.. For what use?.. I don't get it.. He can vote me all the way to the bottom of the list for all I care, but I'm really disappointed.. I hope someone else hacked his profile or something, because that would mean that I didn't misjudge Nata in the past.
 
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2006-09-12 20:02
jailbird

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1578
Anonymous downvoting is just an immature way to express your hate without the fear of confronting with the actual scener. That's just a very low kind of cowardness and I think we're all awared about that... But why is this disgusting attitude supported by the admins of CSDb is beyond me, really.
2006-09-12 20:05
Burglar

Registered: Dec 2004
Posts: 1085
Quote: That's a general problem with voting. If people know the voting result before voting, they don't give the vote they think somebody deserves, but they vote in a way to modify the result to match their personal thinking.

I think the voting system would be better if you didn't see the result before you have voted. That would also make more people vote :)


sadly thats impossible, imagine having to vote for *all* demo groups to be able too see the top 10 ;)

no, you simply have to ban childish voters, or require a certain userlevel to be able to vote. (like 10+ votes from other non-kid users)
2006-09-12 21:14
Graham
Account closed

Registered: Dec 2002
Posts: 990
Most voters are "childish" and let themselves influence by the result they have just seen.
2006-09-12 21:35
Soren

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 547
I know this has probably been disgussed before.. but why not remove the "anonymous voting" feature ?
Are people really THAT afraid of letting the people they vote for, know what they voted?
2006-09-12 21:36
CreaMD

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 3048
Quote: sadly thats impossible, imagine having to vote for *all* demo groups to be able too see the top 10 ;)

no, you simply have to ban childish voters, or require a certain userlevel to be able to vote. (like 10+ votes from other non-kid users)


Actually I tested this in a "unmoderated" photo contest on one of the portals I'm programming, and it was quite like you are describing ;-). Everyone had his own "top" made from the photos he had casted votes for.Plus there was an extensive admin for checking of ill and manipulative voting like too much 9 and 1 etc. We could identify and ban such manipulators, but actually there was never 100% fair results.. so we have decided to handpic the best photos instead (with the help of the "rank" influencing our judgement).

2006-09-12 21:47
jailbird

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1578
The following threads already contain hundreds of posts considering the same topic, basically we're just repeating the same old here.

Up/downvoting solution
Up/downvoting solution

STOP DOWNVOTING,LAMERS!!!!!
STOP DOWNVOTING,LAMERS!!!!!

Voting
Voting

Misuse of voting
Misuse of voting

Transparent votes?
Transparent votes?

Downvoting
Downvoting

will some 1 please tell me why
will some 1 please tell me why

IMHO, the best idea comes from TDJ:

Transparant voting & editing
Transparant voting & editing

+ Weighted-average topics

weighted average?
weighted average?

Weighted average, again.
Weighted average, again.
2006-09-12 22:22
Matt

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 598
there's nothing u could really do about it.
wherever there's a voting system there will always be the bloody downvoters.

2006-09-12 22:33
Mirage

Registered: Jan 2003
Posts: 113
and what about those upvoters... sickening!
2006-09-13 07:07
chatGPZ

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11352
i always vote either 10 (good) or 1 (sucks). and i have my votes set to anonymous. so i'm an anonymous updownvoter? \o/
2006-09-13 07:17
Steppe

Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 1510
Downvoting is ok, as far as wdr is concerned. And as long as you have the guts to stand up for your votes by making them public.
Groepaz, why don't you make your votes public? What keeps you from stepping out of anonymity?
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