Re: Re: Re: Encouraging comments for downvotes

It'd be rare that I would look at notes for upvotes, but if one of my nodes has a significant number of downvotes, I want to know why.

This is just an idea to help people think before they vote. I fully expect that there would be fewer votes cast. That may also mean that XP becomes a more meaningful indicator of community acceptance of a node.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Encouraging comments for downvotes by diotalevi (Canon) on Apr 05, 2004 at 16:38 UTC
I'd be unhappy if my participatory node-resorting feature were removed to replace it with your acceptance-metric. This brings up the related question - most of the time the vote total on any node is hidden anyway. Most people don't sort nodes on reputation (I do). This means that neither of our outcomes are helping these two other populations (people who don't vote / can't vote (the other 2/3rd of the population that is anonymous for instance), people who aren't logged in and haven't chosen to sort by rep).	[reply]

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Encouraging comments for downvotes
by diotalevi (Canon) on Apr 05, 2004 at 16:38 UTC

I'd be unhappy if my participatory node-resorting feature were removed to replace it with your acceptance-metric. This brings up the related question - most of the time the vote total on any node is hidden anyway. Most people don't sort nodes on reputation (I do). This means that neither of our outcomes are helping these two other populations (people who don't vote / can't vote (the other 2/3rd of the population that is anonymous for instance), people who aren't logged in and haven't chosen to sort by rep).

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