I know there's been a lot of talk about moderation here, but I'm really concerned about the fine line that falls between agreeing with a post and thinking the writer makes an astute point. Now I may be wrong (I remember it happened once before) but I just ++'d a post that I thought made a good point about adding an 'Improve my code' section to the site, and the nett reputation became 0!

Because of this I went and re-read the post, maybe I had misread it. But no, the post was well written and made a good argument for the addition of the section - even if you didn't want this section to appear on the site.

Maybe there needs to be a second 'poll' style thing where either posters can opt to add a survey or there's always a survey there for people to agree or disagree with the post. This would appear below the post and would show the results without need for a vote. This would remove the temptation to down-vote a post just because you don't agree with it. And it would allow posters to guage how people felt about their idea (rather than about their post).

Be careful when moderating that you're not polling.
Cheers!
Rick

In reply to It's a fine line, but Moderation is not Polling by BigLug

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