Re: Voting system idea..

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

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Re^2: Voting system idea.. by apotheon (Deacon) on Nov 23, 2004 at 09:09 UTC
I absolutely agree that voting doesn't need any reward associated with it at all. It's gratuitous and unnecessary to reward people for voting, to say nothing of it being often counterproductive. Voting should be its own reward (to sound like a greeting card for a moment). I'm afraid I don't think I really agree with your second point. The voting system doesn't require additional complication. I would very much like that sort of fine-grained control for my own purposes, but I think it would turn out to be misused or inconvenient for the majority of users. Just my 1.5 cents. - apotheon CopyWrite Chad Perrin	[reply]

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Re^2: Voting system idea..
by apotheon (Deacon) on Nov 23, 2004 at 09:09 UTC

I absolutely agree that voting doesn't need any reward associated with it at all. It's gratuitous and unnecessary to reward people for voting, to say nothing of it being often counterproductive. Voting should be its own reward (to sound like a greeting card for a moment).

I'm afraid I don't think I really agree with your second point. The voting system doesn't require additional complication. I would very much like that sort of fine-grained control for my own purposes, but I think it would turn out to be misused or inconvenient for the majority of users.

Just my 1.5 cents.

- apotheon
CopyWrite Chad Perrin

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