Comment Voting: Back, Modified
Hello. Comment voting is back. As as often the case with these things, I just had to do something entirely different to get it to work. Once I modified the approach it was easy, which… computers, man.
The graying out and highlighting are still a work in progress, but we have restored the status quo ante bellum, pre-slashcomments. I'll probably move the voting thing to the right, but I figured I'd let people get a grasp on the new/old status quo before making further changes.
The system:
You need 100 points to vote and start threads. As per before. No change there.
Upvoting is free and provides two points to the upvoted user. Someone posted something you like. Hurray!
Downvoting costs a point and subtracts a point from the downvoted user. Finally: something to spend your points on. It costs a point to downvote a guy in an effort to mitigate the echo-chamber effect; downvoting is not supposed to be disagreement. It also hurts the downvoted user less than upvoting helps him an effort to only excise folks who get more than two-thirds of the site on their bad side. If this is you… I cannot help you.
THERE IS NO LIMIT. bwahahahahahaha (there should probably be a limit. working on that.)
December 11th, 2013 at 4:29 PM ^
PROFIT!
December 11th, 2013 at 4:31 PM ^
I'm very happy to have voting back but I still think that it is essential that negative voting is free so that every comment that isn't useful in some way, gets punished. This is what it will take to increase the quality of comments to the point that people want to read them again.
December 11th, 2013 at 5:27 PM ^
December 11th, 2013 at 5:55 PM ^
neg people to death without consequence. Now there is some self-moderation due to the cost. If someone is truly objectionable, the wisdom of the crowd will spend a coupla points each to drop his/her nasty butt.
December 11th, 2013 at 6:17 PM ^
Exactly. Need to save the negging for the truly stupid/ridiculous/McFarlin.
December 12th, 2013 at 6:34 AM ^
Ideal community behavior: Someone says something incredibly cruel just to rile folks up, a few dozen people each spend a point to send the post to oblivion to preserve the site's integrity.
Non-ideal behavior: A few dozen zealots go through threads and systematically neg every post they find disagreeable or, worse, neg every single post by a particular user. That can ONLY be done if neg votes are free.
I've been targeted in forums just because someone didn't like my opinions. It's incredibly annoying to have someone follow you from thread to thread, spewing hate the whole time. That's not any better than trolling. At least this way, that sort of vendetta will burn through a busybody's karma in short order.
December 11th, 2013 at 4:31 PM ^
"You need 100 points to vote..."
What? You mean I have to contribute?
Rats.
December 11th, 2013 at 4:31 PM ^
I assume newbs like me see nothing different. I'm new to the board so not sure what I'm looking for.
December 11th, 2013 at 4:33 PM ^
You're looking for Narnia.
December 11th, 2013 at 4:35 PM ^
Off to the wardrobe then.
December 11th, 2013 at 5:23 PM ^
You can down vote one person or post a snarky OT. Enjoy!
December 11th, 2013 at 5:24 PM ^
You're so close you can almost feel those pointy arrows of judgement.
December 11th, 2013 at 5:51 PM ^
Only when you stop looking will you find what you seek.
December 11th, 2013 at 4:31 PM ^
You tell your grandchildren about. Then they flip you the ole double bird (because the younger generation lacks respect for their elders), talk into their invisible ear piece, teleport up to their hover-pod, and tell the robot butler to "pitter out" (which in the future will mean "piss off")
December 11th, 2013 at 4:32 PM ^
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
December 11th, 2013 at 4:32 PM ^
Trolls be like
December 11th, 2013 at 4:36 PM ^
Did Brian also take this opportunity to change the quote under the banner? Or was I just too oblivious to see when this happened/was mentioned earlier.
December 11th, 2013 at 6:01 PM ^
Couldn't tell you when exactly, but I noticed it over the weekend.
December 11th, 2013 at 4:37 PM ^
Who was about to ditch the website post bowl games, but hopefully this change will improve the board and get rid of the problems that have left me shaking my headd.
December 11th, 2013 at 4:39 PM ^
POSBANGS FOR EVERYONE
December 11th, 2013 at 4:39 PM ^
December 11th, 2013 at 4:47 PM ^
Do points still expire in a year? That was a nice feature.
December 11th, 2013 at 5:33 PM ^
Vote me down, y'all, but I don't like the expiration in a year feature. I think that provides an impetus to post frequently rather than posting less frequently but with posts that include something of substance, particularly on a sports blog where point accumulation is another game many people play.
December 12th, 2013 at 10:14 AM ^
The experation will make accumulating points make everyone read a bunch of nonsense so people can get their "voting" rights back. I have been here a while, and have noticed that this community does a pretty nice job of policing its self when the voting is on.
Thanks Brian hopefully this will eleviate a lot of the moderation that has been necessary as of late.
December 11th, 2013 at 4:55 PM ^
IT'S ALL REALLY HAPPENING.
December 11th, 2013 at 4:56 PM ^
Does this mean if you lurk without posting you theoretically could neg enough other people to not be able to vote/create threads?
December 11th, 2013 at 4:57 PM ^
Making this decesion
December 11th, 2013 at 5:58 PM ^
not right.
December 11th, 2013 at 5:02 PM ^
I'm ready. I await your upvotes.
December 11th, 2013 at 5:04 PM ^
whatever.
December 11th, 2013 at 5:06 PM ^
We are back!
December 11th, 2013 at 5:11 PM ^
December 11th, 2013 at 5:15 PM ^
1 M1553D 1T 50 MUCHO
December 11th, 2013 at 5:16 PM ^
Points aren't worth what they used to be when you had to earn them one at a time. A guy could pound out posts from sun up to sun down and only earn maybe 10 or 15 points. This inflation is ridiculous! Have you seen how much they charge for a nickel candy bar these days?
December 11th, 2013 at 6:01 PM ^
I think he likes veggies now!
December 11th, 2013 at 5:19 PM ^
cast by the MGoUsers will help the MODs quickly identify the trolls!!
December 11th, 2013 at 5:19 PM ^
With tears rolling down my face I say... Welcome back voting, for I have missed you.
December 11th, 2013 at 5:31 PM ^
It is once again worth logging in!
December 11th, 2013 at 5:31 PM ^
No problem! Points for everyone!
December 11th, 2013 at 5:36 PM ^
Hate...just not nearly as much! Downvote -1 is great.
December 11th, 2013 at 5:38 PM ^
And then government returned to Somalia.
December 11th, 2013 at 5:39 PM ^
This is the best news of the day!!
December 11th, 2013 at 5:40 PM ^
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December 11th, 2013 at 5:49 PM ^
I use the iPad and iPhone apps quite a bit.
December 11th, 2013 at 6:11 PM ^
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