Mbodell Posted June 3, 2011 Report Share Posted June 3, 2011 I approve a hundred fold of this thread! 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanoi5 Posted June 3, 2011 Report Share Posted June 3, 2011 When can you get downvotes? It could turn the Fora into an interesting war... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trinidad Posted June 3, 2011 Report Share Posted June 3, 2011 lol to upvotes, anyone can create an smurf account and upvote himself as many times as he wants toUntil Azrael takes care of him... Rik 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elianna Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 Until Azrael takes care of him... Rik That's funny. When I watched Smurfs he had a different name. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotShot Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 I wonder if we should upvote for Bridge reasons......, but than why should we. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matmat Posted June 5, 2011 Report Share Posted June 5, 2011 I think this is all part of GWNN's crusade to get bbo to allow downvotes! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elianna Posted June 5, 2011 Report Share Posted June 5, 2011 I think this is all part of GWNN's crusade to get bbo to allow downvotes! I wish him lots of luck in that crusade. I don't understand why they're disabled. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matmat Posted June 5, 2011 Report Share Posted June 5, 2011 I wish him lots of luck in that crusade. I don't understand why they're disabled. That feature has been disabled to prevent matmat from having a negative reputation. duh. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mbodell Posted June 5, 2011 Report Share Posted June 5, 2011 I wish him lots of luck in that crusade. I don't understand why they're disabled. I'm not sure, but on some forums the negative voting can contribute to flame wars, hurt feelings, and poorer quality posts. Maybe that is why they are disabled here? 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherdano Posted June 5, 2011 Report Share Posted June 5, 2011 I'm not sure, but on some forums the negative voting can contribute to flame wars, hurt feelings, and poorer quality posts. Maybe that is why they are disabled here?Well, over the last year or two, BBF has had flame wars, hurt feelings, and the quality of posts going down. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matmat Posted June 5, 2011 Report Share Posted June 5, 2011 Well, over the last year or two, BBF has had flame wars, hurt feelings, and the quality of posts going down. I expect proof of this assertion to appear shortly. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BunnyGo Posted June 5, 2011 Report Share Posted June 5, 2011 That feature has been disabled to prevent matmat from having a negative reputation. duh. I'd vote you up! I'm not sure, but on some forums the negative voting can contribute to flame wars, hurt feelings, and poorer quality posts. Maybe that is why they are disabled here? Maybe, but on other forums it does a good job of keeping really bad posts from being easily read. It drops them from view, or down the queue. I rather like how it's implemented on StackOverflow, and am not quite sure why we don't have something like that here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elianna Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 On another forum (I'm not bothering to name it because I would bet money that no one who's posted in this thread is a regular member) they have a whole array of voting choices on the bottom of posts. The choices include "agree" and "disagree". It works really well in the part of the forum that is related to technique, although there is some wanking about "phantom disagreers", but not as much as could be expected. Basically, the agree and disagree aren't up and down votes, so they remain displayed, and you can see if a post is controversial, widely agreed with, widely disagreed with, or a non-boat-rocker. Other choices include "educational" and "interesting". I think that's even better than just having a vote up button, because there are many reasons people might want to vote up a post, and this is more specific. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mbodell Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 On another forum (I'm not bothering to name it because I would bet money that no one who's posted in this thread is a regular member) they have a whole array of voting choices on the bottom of posts. The choices include "agree" and "disagree". It works really well in the part of the forum that is related to technique, although there is some wanking about "phantom disagreers", but not as much as could be expected. ravelry forums? Basically, the agree and disagree aren't up and down votes, so they remain displayed, and you can see if a post is controversial, widely agreed with, widely disagreed with, or a non-boat-rocker. Other choices include "educational" and "interesting". I think that's even better than just having a vote up button, because there are many reasons people might want to vote up a post, and this is more specific. I agree that this would be good to have. I'm not sure it is that important though if it were hard for bbo to implement. But yes it sounds good if it is a priority. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elianna Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 ravelry forums? How did you know? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mbodell Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 ravelry forums?How did you know? My best guess by far for hobby in general that would appeal to you but that you wouldn't think would appeal to bbo forum posters was knitting. I have a lot of coworkers who are big in to knitting and make a big deal of it whenever the knitting convention comes to town. But I'm not a member of the ravelry forums so your bet may still be good! 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elianna Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 My best guess by far for hobby in general that would appeal to you but that you wouldn't think would appeal to bbo forum posters was knitting. I have a lot of coworkers who are big in to knitting and make a big deal of it whenever the knitting convention comes to town. But I'm not a member of the ravelry forums so your bet may still be good! I do know other bridge players who are members of ravelry, and I know someone else who is a member of both forums, but he is not a frequent poster, and has not posted on this thread. The only thing I'm excited about for our move is being close to Stitches West (I've never been). I want to meet your coworkers! :) 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxx Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 I'm not sure, but on some forums the negative voting can contribute to flame wars, hurt feelings, and poorer quality posts. Maybe that is why they are disabled here? As is gradually becoming clear, it is to protect posters like Foxx, who has lately acquired a tendency to humiliate himself in the bridge threads on a weekly basis. 4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babalu1997 Posted June 7, 2011 Report Share Posted June 7, 2011 When can you get downvotes? It could turn the Fora into an interesting war... yes you can down votethere is a minus next to the up vote but there is a daily limit of sown votes, i think 5 3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BunnyGo Posted June 7, 2011 Report Share Posted June 7, 2011 yes you can down votethere is a minus next to the up vote but there is a daily limit of sown votes, i think 5 I upvoted this comment, because it's apparently a giveaway. But you're statement is wrong. The daily limit is zero downvotes. 3 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BunnyGo Posted June 7, 2011 Report Share Posted June 7, 2011 An impressive giveaway gwnn. 121 upvotes so far...Maybe next should start a downvote giveaway. 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgoetze Posted June 7, 2011 Report Share Posted June 7, 2011 I upvoted this comment, because it's apparently a giveaway. But you're statement is wrong. The daily limit is zero downvotes. Whatever the limit is, it's higher than it was last week, because I was just able to downvote your comment. 3 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BunnyGo Posted June 7, 2011 Report Share Posted June 7, 2011 Whatever the limit is, it's higher than it was last week, because I was just able to downvote your comment. Wow that's awesome! (and it's new) Hurray for downvotes! 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matmat Posted June 7, 2011 Report Share Posted June 7, 2011 Crap. Now that there are consequences I am going to have to alter my posting habits. AAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! 5 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BunnyGo Posted June 7, 2011 Report Share Posted June 7, 2011 Crap. Now that there are consequences I am going to have to alter my posting habits. AAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! I'm still upvoting you! 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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