Downvoting
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I use to find it helped me realise what was acceptable and unacceptable. One of my old posts would attract say 3x upvotes and 15x downvotes. I would look at this and say, OK, perhaps I overstepped the mark there, some people found it funny but most were appalled, and then I would think twice before posting similar subject matter. Now that same post will attract just 3x upvotes and I'm none the wiser that 15 people didn't like it. I think because of this newbies are not going to be educated this way and will post stuff that nobody particularly likes, but will have no way of knowing. I think the Swiss weather forecasts are a good example of threads that would have been downvoted in the past, and thus educating the poster.
PB 369,783 wrote:
I would look at this and say, OK, perhaps I overstepped the mark there, some people found it funny but most were appalled, and then I would think twice before posting similar subject matter.
The downside is that you learned to stop posting about your obsession with Mary Poppins. It wasn't appalling as much as it was kind of sad.
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PB 369,783 wrote:
Swiss weather forecasts are a good example
I like them. Well, mostly because I am swiss. Now however, feel free to talk to the author instead of hiding behind a downvote. From this point of view the removal of the downvoting did something good: We are forced to talk to each other. Wait, we are developers - Nevermind.
- mabertschi
CodeProject 10 Million members celebration meetup - Switzerland
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PB 369,783 wrote:
Swiss weather forecasts are a good example
I like them. Well, mostly because I am swiss. Now however, feel free to talk to the author instead of hiding behind a downvote. From this point of view the removal of the downvoting did something good: We are forced to talk to each other. Wait, we are developers - Nevermind.
- mabertschi
CodeProject 10 Million members celebration meetup - Switzerland
mabertschi wrote:
I like them. Well, mostly because I am swiss.
Exactly, the poster will get 1 up-vote from you, and maybe 5 down-votes from others, showing that overall it wasn't appreciated. Now he will get just one upvote from you.
mabertschi wrote:
Now however, feel free to talk to the author instead of hiding behind a downvote.
It's not hiding, it's educating. Downvotes never bothered me but if I got a lot on one message I would try to take that into account in future. I have already told the author it didn't interest me and did that anyway before downvoting was removed. Please don't be offended by my choice of example. It was the latest post that met the criteria, there were plenty others I could have chose. And besides it's only my guess it would have attracted downvotes.
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There are times when I miss it.
VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.1 ToDo Manager Extension Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the restraints.
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Yeah but down voting let you voice an opinion so to speak. 5 - Yeah right on 4 - You have a point 3 - You have a point just not the right one 2 - Are you elephanting crazy 1 - You're a total douche
VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.1 ToDo Manager Extension Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the restraints.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote:
Simply flag as spam/abuse.
..has the bonus benefit that if enough people do it, the message gets removedAND the user as well! :doh:
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote:
Simply flag as spam/abuse.
..has the bonus benefit that if enough people do it, the message gets removedAND the user as well! :doh:
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, ActressJohnny J. wrote:
AND the user as well! :doh:
Live example here ;)
Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
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Johnny J. wrote:
AND the user as well! :doh:
Live example here ;)
Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
Precisely! ;)
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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Precisely! ;)
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress:laugh: :laugh:
Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
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No, I am not calling for a return of it, although that is tempting many times. I was actually against removing it at first but have come to see that I don't miss it at all. I think it was a good idea to remove it. :)
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
Its absence has annoyed the Hell out of me. So much fun can be had, twiddling the cursor over the little green arrows to light them up.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Its absence has annoyed the Hell out of me. So much fun can be had, twiddling the cursor over the little green arrows to light them up.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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No, I am not calling for a return of it, although that is tempting many times. I was actually against removing it at first but have come to see that I don't miss it at all. I think it was a good idea to remove it. :)
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
1-5 voting was much better than what we have now. I don't understand why we have to be treated like children. Downvoted posts showed up grey so you could see what wasn't worth your time, too. Some things are bad enough they should be reported as abuse, but some posts were just vapid and deserved a 1 or 2 without actually being bad enough that I want to see them summarily removed.
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1-5 voting was much better than what we have now. I don't understand why we have to be treated like children. Downvoted posts showed up grey so you could see what wasn't worth your time, too. Some things are bad enough they should be reported as abuse, but some posts were just vapid and deserved a 1 or 2 without actually being bad enough that I want to see them summarily removed.
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I don't understand why we have to be treated like children.
I'm pretty sure it was removed because it was being used by children. :) There are so many waste of time posts on here, in my opinion. What people had for lunch, what they're going to do later. It makes it feel like twitter and facebook. I hate that. Some people like it though.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I use to find it helped me realise what was acceptable and unacceptable. One of my old posts would attract say 3x upvotes and 15x downvotes. I would look at this and say, OK, perhaps I overstepped the mark there, some people found it funny but most were appalled, and then I would think twice before posting similar subject matter. Now that same post will attract just 3x upvotes and I'm none the wiser that 15 people didn't like it. I think because of this newbies are not going to be educated this way and will post stuff that nobody particularly likes, but will have no way of knowing. I think the Swiss weather forecasts are a good example of threads that would have been downvoted in the past, and thus educating the poster.
PB 369,783 wrote:
I'm none the wiser that 15 people didn't like it
As this is the internet, and CP is coming up on 10,000,000 users, I would imagine that 15 people not liking something is a given. You shouldn't really change your habits until an appreciable minority is offendend. Let's be generous and put that at 0.1%, meaning you can do as you please until you get 10,000 downvotes. :-D
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Its absence has annoyed the Hell out of me.
Wow! I awoke the sleeping giant. :)
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
So where's my &%@#ing coffee?!?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
