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grasstust
Registered: Apr 2007
Posts: 43 |
What's stopping someone from creating a fake account for downvoting?
I just don't get why people are allowed to vote anonymously...
What's stopping me then, from making a new fake account just
for down (or up)-voting someone?
I think this happened to Offence's Trick and Treat. Somebody just
made a fake account and voted 1 and 2. And it just fell from top 10 to
below 70.
I have never seen a downvoter voting with a handle, they're all anonymous...
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HCL
Registered: Feb 2003
Posts: 727 |
I would say that bottom 10 is almost as interesting as top 10 :) |
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FATFrost
Account closed
Registered: Sep 2003
Posts: 211 |
ooh... i never realised the scene was a compo.... |
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grasstust
Registered: Apr 2007
Posts: 43 |
Quote: ooh... i never realised the scene was a compo....
If you refer to what I said, yes, I'd say competition has always been part of the scene. Who can make the best and most, etc, has always been an important factor.
I wouldn't say that with most of us being around 40 years old, this competition is very serious, but competition is an important drive in the scene and I'm not sure we would have had such an amount of cool releases if it wasn't for the numerous democompos.
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11359 |
Quote:Downvoters are those who have realized that extreme voting counts more than "nuanced" voting. Can't see what there is to object to that? :)
i for example always vote either 10 or 1, simply because i think that its impossible to give a fair more fine grained vote without investing a lifetime into judging and comparing a few ten thousend productions. and i do it anonymously because i dont fucking feel like discussing why i am up or downvoting some particular release.
IMHO a whole lot of the entire non existing "problem" could be solved by simply removing the "voting stats" button. can you hear me perff? =) |
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enthusi
Registered: May 2004
Posts: 677 |
Ah, merely removing the visible stats for votes would indeed help! :) |
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Street Tuff
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 88 |
NEVER FORGET!
a good example for anon downvotes! |
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Kristian
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 126 |
I think perhaps upvoting is a bigger problem than downvoting and I am quite sure the comradery is living well here at CSDB.
I think the voting scale should be 1, 2, 3 as in bad, medium, good. Trying to find nuances between 1-10 is just boring anyway :) |
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MagerValp
Registered: Dec 2001
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At Datastorm we will only allow anonymous downvotes, and the winner will be the release that scores a perfect 1.0. Get with the program people! |
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Romppainen
Account closed
Registered: Apr 2008
Posts: 40 |
Quoting Groepazi for example always vote either 10 or 1, simply because i think that its impossible to give a fair more fine grained vote without investing a lifetime into judging and comparing a few ten thousend productions. and i do it anonymously because i dont fucking feel like discussing why i am up or downvoting some particular release.
I can see your point there. I find valuating things using pre-defined scales really painful experience due to rather black and white way my mind works in forming any kind of opinions, I simply either like or dislike something and forcing myself to come up with any alternatives between those two options lead always in troubles as in most cases I can't even describe properly the reasons about why I like something, or don't. I think any feedback is better than no feedback at all but personally I prefer some constructive criticism in written form over numbers which just put the subject somewhere in chart but don't tell anything about why it ended up in that particular place.
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Linus
Registered: Jun 2004
Posts: 639 |
Quote:
... making a new fake account just
for down (or up)-voting someone?
Most excellent idea, thank you! |
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