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Re^8: We should elminate: Anonymous, and DOWN-voting
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 04, 2011 at 13:43 UTC
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In real-life democratic voting, there's generally a pool of at least tens of thousands of other voters, and each one only has ONE vote to cast. The damage that any single person can do if he pointlessly or maliciously places his vote is minimal. Here, the pool of voters at any given time is maybe a few dozen, and if someone really hates your guts, he can have a significant impact on your overall rating. I don't think the comparison is terribly valid. In a democratic system, you also have a right to face your accuser.
And you just got caught with your pants down
In real life, you get one vote for each ballot measure, each office ... same as here, one vote per node, fair and democratic
XP isn't life or death, you aren't accused of anything, and when you vote for president/ballots, the ballots don't get to face you.
Turning a one second barometer into a bureaucracy is bat-guano-insane-o
And no, a single voter cannot have a significant impact on your overall rating, see Voting/Experience System
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We've done away with the "number of votes scales with the amount of taxes you pay" quite some time ago.
Not quite. Having more votes mean you participate in more elections, your vallots are larger . You still vote for one node at a time.
I seldomly vote, and don't give a rats ass about XP. I don't care much at all about Perlmonks voting and XP system, just don't try to compare it to "real life". It doesn't compare.
Sure it does. An analogy is never 100%, but it does compare.
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That depends very much how recently you joined prior to causing someone to have a voting vendetta against you. If you don't have a lot of points and your up against someone who does you've got no chance. Infact a lot of MMO games online have nooby protection for this very reason, if this site is intended to emulate a game then perhaps such a protection would be wise, it might prevent noobies getting quickly into negative figures and then throwing abuse at everyone like you-know-who.
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That depends very much how recently you joined prior to causing someone to have a voting vendetta against you. If you don't have a lot of points and your up against someone who does you've got no chance.
No, that is complete and utter nonsense, the math just doesn't add up. See Voting/Experience System
For practicaly demonstration visit Worst Nodes. Some posters would end up there every day, and most of them still maintained a positive reputation. It takes a special brand of troll to remain in negative digits.
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Says the person posting anonymously. If I can't impact your rating, then why aren't you posting on your account? You're voiding your own argument.
And yes, you do get one vote per office, but I notice that that still means you can't vote against the same person multiple times per day. And it isn't retroactive - you can't go back in time and vote in every previous election he's ever been in either.
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Says the person posting anonymously. If I can't impact your rating, then why aren't you posting on your account? You're voiding your own argument.
My account is Anonymous Monk. I don't get to vote, I don't get to chatter, I don't get experience points.
And yes, you do get one vote per office, but I notice that that still means you can't vote against the same person multiple times per day. And it isn't retroactive - you can't go back in time and vote in every previous election he's ever been in either.
You vote for nodes not monks, you aren't electing any monk to any office.
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