Voting System
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Hi Chris or who ever is in charge! I'm sorry for contacting you this way but I have a complaint: How does this "article voting system" work? And what is even more important: What is it good for? I mean: we don't get paid for writing articles and that's OK but I don't see why an author should get discredited by frustrated teens that give bad votes just for fun. I'd suggest that negative votes must contain a reasonable explanation that states why the according article is "crap". Otherwise the author has no idea how he/she should improve his/her article and this leads to frustration! And why are those votings anonymously? If someone thinks that my article is "poor" I'd like to know why! Maybe you should reconsider that voting system! Cheers, Mario M.
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Hi Chris or who ever is in charge! I'm sorry for contacting you this way but I have a complaint: How does this "article voting system" work? And what is even more important: What is it good for? I mean: we don't get paid for writing articles and that's OK but I don't see why an author should get discredited by frustrated teens that give bad votes just for fun. I'd suggest that negative votes must contain a reasonable explanation that states why the according article is "crap". Otherwise the author has no idea how he/she should improve his/her article and this leads to frustration! And why are those votings anonymously? If someone thinks that my article is "poor" I'd like to know why! Maybe you should reconsider that voting system! Cheers, Mario M.
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Don't worry about the occassional idiot voter. If an article has merit, then others will vote higher when they read it. We've had many discussions about the voting system, and people regularly suggest putting some mechanism in to get people to say why they downvote. The problem is that it is too easy for people just to put crap into the text with a low vote.
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Don't worry about the occassional idiot voter. If an article has merit, then others will vote higher when they read it. We've had many discussions about the voting system, and people regularly suggest putting some mechanism in to get people to say why they downvote. The problem is that it is too easy for people just to put crap into the text with a low vote.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
"If an article has merit, then others will vote higher when they read it." Will they? Since friday my article had 1,190 viewers but I only received three votes. Actually only two people decided to vote after I rated my own article on saturday. Of course now you can say: maybe your article is crap. Maybe it is, but I'll never know why.
Cheers, Mario M.
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Hi Chris or who ever is in charge! I'm sorry for contacting you this way but I have a complaint: How does this "article voting system" work? And what is even more important: What is it good for? I mean: we don't get paid for writing articles and that's OK but I don't see why an author should get discredited by frustrated teens that give bad votes just for fun. I'd suggest that negative votes must contain a reasonable explanation that states why the according article is "crap". Otherwise the author has no idea how he/she should improve his/her article and this leads to frustration! And why are those votings anonymously? If someone thinks that my article is "poor" I'd like to know why! Maybe you should reconsider that voting system! Cheers, Mario M.
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F.Y.I: Chris wrote: --------------------------------------------------------- Hi Mario, We've noodled over this one and all agree that asking for comments on low votes will mean lots of "asdf" comments. What we'll do instead is display a voting histogram - it will show which votes are spurious cheers, Chris Maunder ---------------------------------------------------------
Cheers, Mario M.
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