I've always thought that getting a reward for voting was a bit strange. Personaly I wouldn't mind the whole bonus for voting going away.

On another note, maybe we just make it easier for people to explain what there vote means. Right now we can only vote + or -, sometimes this isn't a clear discription of how you feel about a node. Maybe add more voting options, --, -, 0, +, ++, so if you just think a person put a lot of time into a post, but it may be wrong you vote +, if your sure they are correct ++, and so on. I know this isn't perfect, and it might be harder to implement, but personal I would like to see a little more range in voting, yes, no is seldom enough. Perhaps we could make the single +,- count as .5 votes in either direction, and ++,-- = 1. Then the new system would still play well with historical numbers.

Just my 2 cents.


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Eric Hodges

In reply to Re: Voting system idea.. by eric256
in thread Voting system idea.. by castaway

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