how to cancel your vote for articles?
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I one voted an article because I thought it was bad but then realized the author had made references to the shortcomings. The references were hard to spot earlier. Anyway, since I couldn't take back the vote, I changed it to a three. I would have preferred to cancel the vote because that didn't deserve any up votes.
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I one voted an article because I thought it was bad but then realized the author had made references to the shortcomings. The references were hard to spot earlier. Anyway, since I couldn't take back the vote, I changed it to a three. I would have preferred to cancel the vote because that didn't deserve any up votes.
Once you've voted, you've voted. There's no "take backs" in voting land.
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Once you've voted, you've voted. There's no "take backs" in voting land.
Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
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Which doth sucketh, and I have pretty much stopped voting on articles.
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Which doth sucketh, and I have pretty much stopped voting on articles.
You've stopped voting because you can't cancel a vote?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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You've stopped voting because you can't cancel a vote?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
How hard would it be to implement an un-vote feature for people like him? :-) It'd be like a careless-vote day-after pill!
Regards, Nish
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You've stopped voting because you can't cancel a vote?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Partly. The requirement to post a comment with a low vote also played a part of course. I only ever vote 1 or 5, and hardly ever a 5. I found myself voting 1 and then the article would be improved, but not to a 5, and I couldn't remove the 1. So I stopped voting on articles altogether and just report the really bad articles and/or write a comment. Even if I could remove a vote, going back and reviewing my 1s would be tedious and I probably wouldn't bother. I think it would require an email notification that an article I had 1ed had been updated.
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Partly. The requirement to post a comment with a low vote also played a part of course. I only ever vote 1 or 5, and hardly ever a 5. I found myself voting 1 and then the article would be improved, but not to a 5, and I couldn't remove the 1. So I stopped voting on articles altogether and just report the really bad articles and/or write a comment. Even if I could remove a vote, going back and reviewing my 1s would be tedious and I probably wouldn't bother. I think it would require an email notification that an article I had 1ed had been updated.
PIEBALDconsult wrote:
I think it would require an email notification that an article I had 1ed had been updated.
This should happen anyway IMO - at least by default with an opt out user setting. If the article has changed substantially then the down vote may no longer reflect the quality and should either be removed or recast.
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Partly. The requirement to post a comment with a low vote also played a part of course. I only ever vote 1 or 5, and hardly ever a 5. I found myself voting 1 and then the article would be improved, but not to a 5, and I couldn't remove the 1. So I stopped voting on articles altogether and just report the really bad articles and/or write a comment. Even if I could remove a vote, going back and reviewing my 1s would be tedious and I probably wouldn't bother. I think it would require an email notification that an article I had 1ed had been updated.
OK, that makes sense. I thought it was the awful sense of finality that was causing you grief. "Do I vote? Do I not vote? If I vote a 2 will I regret it later? But I don't want to vote it a 4 because it's not good enough. Oh, if only I could vote it a 2, just for a day, then take it away, rest, and then, maybe, vote a 3 the following day." So it's more about having your vote stay relevant to the article as the article changes. That is something I can definitely add to the TODO.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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OK, that makes sense. I thought it was the awful sense of finality that was causing you grief. "Do I vote? Do I not vote? If I vote a 2 will I regret it later? But I don't want to vote it a 4 because it's not good enough. Oh, if only I could vote it a 2, just for a day, then take it away, rest, and then, maybe, vote a 3 the following day." So it's more about having your vote stay relevant to the article as the article changes. That is something I can definitely add to the TODO.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
So it's more about having your vote stay relevant to the article as the article changes.
Yes, with an optimistic hope that it will be improved. However, I feel that the ability to report poor articles is more powerful than low-voting.