I'm thinking of experimenting with getting rid of the thumbs down altogether. So, you can either thumbs up stuff you like or nothing. If a comment is really innapropriate, you can report it.
Is there a way to make it so the thumbs up/down would show who voted and how? I like the option..it'd just be nice to hold people accountable. If they're not willing to show who they are, they could just leave it be.
In all honesty...you already have the drama from comments. I seriously do think more people would think twice, and give serious consideration to their vote, if there was a possibility that they'd have to offer reasoning. It would become obvious who was doing it for spite and those members could be held accountable...or ignored at the very least.
I don't think the length of time members have been here really affects the childish Middle-School mentality.
Please don't eliminate the feature though...I do think that most of us like it.
Hm, that would certainly be interesting. There are good and bad aspects to this that should be considered.
Good:
-It would eliminate much of the negativity(haha, literal pun) and complaints associated with getting thumbed down I think.
-The good comments would still get all the (rightfully deserved) attention, because they would still be at the top.
-The true amount of thumbs ups a comment gets would remain unchanged.
-If a comment was especially heinous, it could just be reported, or the O.P. could always hide it.
Bad:
-A really bad comment, if not hidden or reported, would probably get some pretty severe backlash in the form of negative comments; especially if there was not a "downthumb" option as an outlet for peoples' disagreement/outrage. They probably deserve it, but this is also probably not something that needs to be encouraged either.
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I just thought of another idea. What if the thumbs counter on comments had a number beside each thumb instead of just one number. It would show you how many thumbs ups your comment got, and at the same time how many thumbs downs your comment got.
Is it normal users thumbs up/down are biased?
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I'm thinking of experimenting with getting rid of the thumbs down altogether. So, you can either thumbs up stuff you like or nothing. If a comment is really innapropriate, you can report it.
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Is there a way to make it so the thumbs up/down would show who voted and how? I like the option..it'd just be nice to hold people accountable. If they're not willing to show who they are, they could just leave it be.
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I fear too much drama from this.
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In all honesty...you already have the drama from comments. I seriously do think more people would think twice, and give serious consideration to their vote, if there was a possibility that they'd have to offer reasoning. It would become obvious who was doing it for spite and those members could be held accountable...or ignored at the very least.
I don't think the length of time members have been here really affects the childish Middle-School mentality.
Please don't eliminate the feature though...I do think that most of us like it.
I'd like that. Especially if you had to be a regular poster before you thumbed, so people couldn't just set up fake accounts and do it.
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Maybe I'll start by restricting the thumbs down to longer-term members only.
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Done. New members can't thumbs down for a while. Let's see if this has any effect...
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Thank you.
Yeah, I think that is a good idea. People do take the thumbs down too seriously at times and use it the wrong way.
Hm, that would certainly be interesting. There are good and bad aspects to this that should be considered.
Good:
-It would eliminate much of the negativity(haha, literal pun) and complaints associated with getting thumbed down I think.
-The good comments would still get all the (rightfully deserved) attention, because they would still be at the top.
-The true amount of thumbs ups a comment gets would remain unchanged.
-If a comment was especially heinous, it could just be reported, or the O.P. could always hide it.
Bad:
-A really bad comment, if not hidden or reported, would probably get some pretty severe backlash in the form of negative comments; especially if there was not a "downthumb" option as an outlet for peoples' disagreement/outrage. They probably deserve it, but this is also probably not something that needs to be encouraged either.
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I just thought of another idea. What if the thumbs counter on comments had a number beside each thumb instead of just one number. It would show you how many thumbs ups your comment got, and at the same time how many thumbs downs your comment got.