I keep coming across posts that are voted down without any comments stating why. Personally I see no use in this system if there is no way to tell why a post is voted down. This random voting might even hold people back in posting 'simple' questions.
There are a few ways that, in my opinion, would improve this system:
Al tree options require that its not anonimous considering the fact that anonimous comments could cause even wors situations. If it's not anonimous, people wil yust vote for the other because the other voted for them so thats not a solution.
In my opinion it should not be posible to punnish but only to reward someone.
I don't think downvoting without reason is a problem at all. Currently, it does not seem to happen a lot and it is not necessary very often because of the high quality of posts on the forum.
However, I would suggest that if the downvoting gets ugly in the future, to base that off the StackOverflow model as well. Whenever you downvote something there, you get a penalty in your karma points, downvoting is very costly and should not be done lightly.
It can be useful to downvote something though, just so other people know to skip a reply or a post because it is believed to be of low quality. It allows for the community to regulate itself. Your idea of flagging it for review by the admin has a top-down approach and doesn't allow the community to decide what is good and what is not.
Down voting
I keep coming across posts that are voted down without any comments stating why. Personally I see no use in this system if there is no way to tell why a post is voted down. This random voting might even hold people back in posting 'simple' questions.
There are a few ways that, in my opinion, would improve this system:
- Require a comment before voting
- Require a reply on the post before voting
- Don't make voting anonimous
What does the rest think?
Al tree options require that its not anonimous considering the fact that anonimous comments could cause even wors situations.
If it's not anonimous, people wil yust vote for the other because the other voted for them
so thats not a solution.
In my opinion it should not be posible to punnish but only to reward someone.
So disable down voting for a better world :).
Ron
You could have anonimous comments though.
Not voting down is perhaps a little extreme, but I like the idea. Instead of voting down you could always have an option to 'notify administrator'.
I don't think downvoting without reason is a problem at all. Currently, it does not seem to happen a lot and it is not necessary very often because of the high quality of posts on the forum.
However, I would suggest that if the downvoting gets ugly in the future, to base that off the StackOverflow model as well. Whenever you downvote something there, you get a penalty in your karma points, downvoting is very costly and should not be done lightly.
It can be useful to downvote something though, just so other people know to skip a reply or a post because it is believed to be of low quality. It allows for the community to regulate itself. Your idea of flagging it for review by the admin has a top-down approach and doesn't allow the community to decide what is good and what is not.
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