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 5:46 PM ^
Looking forward to seeing the impact on the board.
Can't vote yet, but if I type about 60 thank you notes.... hmmm.
December 11th, 2013 at 5:49 PM ^
December 11th, 2013 at 5:49 PM ^
December 11th, 2013 at 5:53 PM ^
Remember, everyone: If you post a GIF, then you will pos-voted to no end. This blog was built by GIF-lovers.
December 11th, 2013 at 5:54 PM ^
First and foremost, many thanks to Brian for bringing the old system back. Hopefully, this makes the lives of everyone on the site a little easier now that it can self-police a bit, just like it used to back in the day. Christmas came early to MGoBlog, it seems, and it is indeed a nice present to us all.
December 11th, 2013 at 6:03 PM ^
I support this thread! Thank you for making this all possible. I am now 99% more likely to post because it means something.
December 11th, 2013 at 6:04 PM ^
but aren't I supposed to be able to see how many up/down votes there are for a particular post? Nothing looks different for me. Maybe when Brian gets the greyed out thing working I'll see that?
December 11th, 2013 at 6:07 PM ^
This is the happiest I've been all week (month?) and that doesn't feel depressing in the slightest.
December 11th, 2013 at 6:08 PM ^
So is the vote number the number of upvotes, or the number of points received?
December 11th, 2013 at 6:09 PM ^
was a lot cooler before it sold out to the up-vote crowd.
December 11th, 2013 at 6:13 PM ^
This is soooooooooo going to make things better.
December 11th, 2013 at 6:45 PM ^
Maybe +100 (votes) and -999? That way, if Chris Perry joins MGoBlog and posts a comment, he can get to 100 points immediately. And if it's an imposter, he's off to Bolivia on the express.
December 11th, 2013 at 6:48 PM ^
A disagreement downvote... Immediately upvoted by somebody else! Seems like a decent system. Good work, Brian!
December 11th, 2013 at 6:14 PM ^
that I will get to experience this on this blog!
oh em gee.
December 11th, 2013 at 6:14 PM ^
December 11th, 2013 at 6:17 PM ^
I have been lurking on this site for a long time but I have never seen anything that I could upvote people in threads is it because I never really comment?
December 11th, 2013 at 6:29 PM ^
When you reach 100 points, an up-down arrow will appear showing the total upvotes and downvotes for each comment.
December 11th, 2013 at 6:58 PM ^
Thanks I guess I will have to start commenting now :)
December 11th, 2013 at 6:36 PM ^
I've gotten so used to the confines of no-votes I'm afraid I'll splurge all over someone's good meme thread. Then I'll regret it later. Oh well. I live for regrets.
December 11th, 2013 at 6:43 PM ^
Thanks Brian! I think this should improve the quality of the board.
December 11th, 2013 at 6:46 PM ^
All these years and still don't have 100 points. I regret everything!!!
December 11th, 2013 at 7:00 PM ^
Better late than never to posbang!!
Go Blue! Go Brian!
December 11th, 2013 at 7:01 PM ^
Sorry to hijack the thread on the first post back to the old system, but I figured I could post this here and maybe someone else with more points can start their own thread with this link. This is an article from Michigan Today that @umich tweeted. I suggest reading as it pertains to a fellow Alum:
http://michigantoday.umich.edu/story.php?id=8748#.Uqj5dpGw7wJ
December 11th, 2013 at 7:07 PM ^
December 11th, 2013 at 7:19 PM ^
Quite the jedi mind trick--inducing positive votes by mentioning a negbang!
December 11th, 2013 at 9:25 PM ^
Wow this news brought many good ones back you old mod you.
December 11th, 2013 at 7:28 PM ^
December 11th, 2013 at 7:37 PM ^
First Rule of MGoPoints: You don't talk about MGoPoints.
UNLESS MGOPOINTS RETURN FROM HIATUS WITH NO LIMITS!!!!
December 11th, 2013 at 7:38 PM ^
December 11th, 2013 at 7:42 PM ^
We've reached the promised land!
December 11th, 2013 at 7:51 PM ^
December 11th, 2013 at 8:14 PM ^
December 11th, 2013 at 8:21 PM ^
means a long road to be able to post. Man, can't believe I have been reading this blog for over five years and can't manage more than 17 points ...
December 11th, 2013 at 9:55 PM ^
December 11th, 2013 at 8:28 PM ^
December 11th, 2013 at 8:40 PM ^
Thank you, thank you, thank you, sincere thanks, great appreciation, heartfelt gratitude, all of this, and more. Maybe this will help the site and remove gratuitous snark, stupidity, and trolling.
December 17th, 2013 at 8:49 AM ^
Goes to the person who has gone back into my history and downvoted every comment he could find. How screwed up do you have to be to do that on a day like today? He even downvoted me in the official posbang thread!
Not sure why. Most interesting thing is that the person actually upvoted two old Minnesota-game comments about epilepsy in my family, so he is not, apparently, a total douchebag. But still, hard to grasp the overall motivation.
[EDIT III, December 17: After another attack yesterday, I've once again gone back and upvoted the comments he downvoted, using my old account. So each of his 70+ negs results in a +1 for me...]
December 11th, 2013 at 9:06 PM ^
December 11th, 2013 at 9:17 PM ^
And the crowd goes wild with cheerful glee in anticipation of what voting will bring.
December 11th, 2013 at 9:19 PM ^
Thank fuck, I can finally start posting again. This place really went to shit for a while there.
December 11th, 2013 at 9:19 PM ^
This is the greatest thing that has ever been taken from me and been returned!
December 11th, 2013 at 9:28 PM ^
YAY NOW PEOPLE WILL MAKE MY COMMENTS GRAY.
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