I have an idea! Earlier someone told me not to post inline html pictures in my post, because it makes each of my post very big. So, I assume that we want to keep the bandwidth usage of PerlMonks down as much as possible. That must be the reason. Okay, so in order to help with that, I have an idea! What if when someone clicks on + or - to vote on an comment or post, then only download a 1x1 gif picture which is like 34 bytes. When requesting that gif, you could send the the post # and whether its an up or down vote. The logged in status of the user is sent in the cookies, if I am correct. So, the server knows who sent it. This design would allow PerlMonks to not have to reload the entire page with multiple comments. It would cut down on the bandwidth use of the server.

The number of votes on each item could be changed as well, so instead of showing a single number, it would show the number of up votes and down votes separately. And it would show these numbers on all posts. I noticed that you have to be logged in to see the number. And you have to vote in order to see it. This is not very smart. I hate StackOverflow, but I must say one positive about their website. It's that you can see the rating on each good answer without having to be logged in or having to vote at all.

In reply to New Design for Sending + - votes on PerlMonks by harangzsolt33

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