Re: Controversial!! - Get rid of the -- vote option.

FYI... the ability to vote on nodes was introduced on 2000-03-22, when the site was yet in its infancy. The next day, vroom posted Beginnings of the Voting Experience System

In the first 24 hours, 49 votes were cast, of which 4 were down-votes. So I believe it's fair to say that the ability to down-vote has been around as long as the ability to vote at all.

It's probably worth noting that PerlMonks was developed by the same guys who had already built Slashdot, which also has machinery to "down-moderate" posts. I think that would have been precedent for them when they created PerlMonks, though tbh I don't know for sure that Slashdot had that feature as long ago as that.

I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon staffed with 16,000 zombies.

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Re^2: Controversial!! - Get rid of the -- vote option. by Bod (Parson) on Oct 25, 2021 at 16:23 UTC
PerlMonks was developed by the same guys who had already built Slashdot Two sites with enviable longevity... I think we can conclude that they did a good job (or two)!	[reply]