in reply to Re^6: RFC: Better Best Answers
in thread RFC: Better Best Answers

Whilst I am quite sure that there will be small cliques of monks that will arrange to double upvote each others posts; I am naive enough to believe that they will be more than offset by the: "I vote on those posts that surprise, delight or educate me" majority.

What about a double down identity reveal? Like an endorsement

If you double down the node gets a note of ++++by Username or ----by Username

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Re^8: RFC: Better Best Answers (double down identity reveal endorsement)
by jdporter (Paladin) on Sep 15, 2016 at 12:48 UTC
    What about a double down identity reveal? Like an endorsement

    Cool idea! But I'm ambivalent about it. On one hand, some people might sometimes like the endorsement aspect. On the other hand, I suspect most monks will mostly prefer to keep their voting anonymous; in which case, this obligatory identity reveal will be seen as a cost, and thus will be a disincentive. It would suppress the exercise of the feature. I'm not looking for ways to undermine the efficacy of the new feature. :-)

    What if, instead, we were to let any voting action be accompanied by a voluntary option to reveal identity?

    I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.
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      this obligatory identity reveal will be seen as a cost, and thus will be a disincentive.

      I think that's part of the charm of it. You an upvote once anonymously as at present but if you think it's a really great node and don't mind others knowing you think that then you can give it the bonus. Sounds ideal to me.

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        Who's name is displayed if more than one person doubles down on the same post? Or would you want a list?

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