Some may be put of by the XP-system, others may be attracted by it.
I personally find it a good system, not in an absolute sense but relatively speaking. It gives some idea how your node was received by the community.
But I agree that if you downvote a node, it is best to give a reason for it, so the "beneficiary" of your downvotes can learn from it.
That being said, nobody gets any better by artificially withholding downvotes, because it is the "politically correct thing to do" and since each monk can only downvote each node once, there is little risk of indvidually breaking the reputation of a monk.
CountZero
"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law
Re: Re: Stupid mass-downvoting ...
by ysth (Canon) on Dec 07, 2003 at 09:55 UTC
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In the case in question, I saw a comment in the chatterbox that indicated he was being punished for "whining" about XP
in the CB. It made me go and upvote some of his good nodes.
It's a shame to have lost him.
Update: Just to clarify, I don't believe there was any conspiracy, nor is there any mechanism for such. And if
you post an idea to Perl Monks Discussion, you have to be
prepared to receive downvotes even from those who respectfully disagree (update: I'm referring to his -57 for a self-described request for discussion). But I think (without actual evidence) that there was an attitude by
some of "let's teach him not to care so much about XP" that
was a source of some of the downvoting, and that I find disturbing.
Update: I see comments saying a friar should know how the system works better.
I'd like to point out that you can become a friar in a very short period of time. He had been a user for just 40 days. | [reply] [Watch: Dir/Any] |
Re: Re: Stupid mass-downvoting ...
by DrHyde (Prior) on Dec 08, 2003 at 09:34 UTC
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But I agree that if you downvote a node, it is best to give a reason for it, so the "beneficiary" of your downvotes can learn from it.
If I can find an email address for a monk whose node I am downvoting then sure, I'll let them know why. But I'm not going to pollute the thread with an explanatory message every time I downvote. | [reply] [Watch: Dir/Any] |
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Indeed, but that was not the idea. I meant to say that we can all learn form each others mistakes. Sometimes it is best done in the thread (to educate all), sometimes it is more appropriate to do this through the /msg system. Personally, I would not do so through e-mail. Monks-business should remain within the walls of the Monastery.
CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law
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This /msg system is where?
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