Maybe I haven't been paying attention, or haven't been spending time in the same threads as you, but I don't see rapid submission of votes as being a serious problem of abuse that needs a solution.

I especially don't see a problem with people doing rapid downvotes, and even if there was a lot of this going on, I don't agree that the people doing it should be "punished". As often as not, someone who decides to downvote a node is able to make that decision in a very short time.

I also do not see any point in "punishing" someone because their decision to downvote a node happens to disagree with some larger number of monks, no matter how long it takes this person to make this decision.

I don't know whether anyone engages in "robot voting" (i.e. voting on nodes, either up or down, without even putting them on display, simply to get the XP from voting), and if they do, well, maybe that had some value for them as a programming exercise, but I don't see how it impacts on (detracts from) the value that I personally get from reading whole threads, and voting on nodes that are either egregious or inspiring.

If you have specific examples where you believe the value of the Monastery (or the value of your experience here) has been diminished by certain voting practices, go ahead and point those out. Maybe others can suggest different ways of repairing the problem. So far, I just have not seen the problem.

In reply to Re^4: proposition for Voting system by graff
in thread proposition for Voting system by spx2

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