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Name and shame the downvoters I say, on every post.
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Is that just because you face them a lot? 
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Yes. 
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Ah, the moderate voice of reason.
Why name and shame? What's the benefit in your mind?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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V: Tell me... what do you do with witches?
P3: Burn'em! Burn them up! (burn burn burn)
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Chris Maunder wrote: Ah, the moderate voice of reason.
Hey, you know me! 
Its like this. People should be held to account for downvoting, and justify their actions. As it is people can do it for revenge, or any other trivial reason, and walk away. If they know they will be publicly known as the downvoter, they will judge their decision more carefully.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: If they know they will be publicly known as the downvoter, they will judge their decision more carefully
Well, two problems with this
1. Some people don't care if people know they are a downvoter. Especially if it's a sock-puppet account.
2. Some people never learn.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Do sock puppet accounts have down voting capability? Surely they are too temporary to have that.
As for the latter, well, then they become known as grouchy old gits and ignored.
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For me, this is a difficult question.
I'm against "authority without responsibility" and at present we have that: anonymous downvotes (or abuse votes) promote "bullying" tactics, because there is no penalty that can be applied to deliberately trying to hurt someone (even if only their feelings). So the less mature and more childish members do what they want, safe in the knowledge that nobody knows and there can be no retaliation.
But...
Named downvotes? They encourage revenge, which it's easy to see descend into a tit-for-tat smacking session.
Named upvotes? Nice feelings are good, but I can't see the value without named downvotes at the same time.
Perhaps what we need is a cost associated with downvotes: perhaps if you downvote the same number of points are deducted from your account? Mind you, you'd hear the screams of some members even if you were deaf!
For me, I'm happy either way: You can attach my name to my up and downvotes with no problem.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Perhaps what we need is a cost associated with downvotes: perhaps if you downvote the same number of points are deducted from your account?
If the amount of points deducted were also weighted by the number of people agreeing with you (also downvoting the message), you might have something. My problem is that I'm not sure that the accounting involved would be worth the effort.
Perhaps something like this would work:
- You downvote a message.
- Your downvote (including your name) is displayed immediately for all to see.
- The points to be deducted are calculated 24 hours after the first downvote for the message.
- The points to be deducted are calculated on a scale based on the number of people who agree with you, and weighted by your reputation (with great power comes great responsibility).
- Any downvotes that occur more than 24 hours after the first downvote are neither displayed nor accounted for in the points calculation.
Comments?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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It's a shame you don't have some method of organising some sort of pole to count people's votes. 
My vote goes for I don't care.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I know - if only we had a survey system 
(What I want is the debate, not the vote)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I prefer things stay the way they are with one exception: on the Lounge, I'd like anonymous down-voting back. But, I'd like to see the "rep cost" of a Lounge post down-vote (to the poster) be exactly 1 point, with no "weighting" by CP status.
And, I'd like to see the down-voter on a Lounge post also "pay" one point.
cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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BillWoodruff wrote: And, I'd like to see the down-voter on a Lounge post also "pay" one point
I'm not sure how that would affect anything. It's a minor cost that trolls wouldn't mind paying. It's also a cost that those who are downvoting the truly awful shouldn't have to pay.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Hi Chris,Chris Maunder wrote: I'm not sure how that would affect anything. It's a minor cost that trolls wouldn't mind paying. It's also a cost that those who are downvoting the truly awful shouldn't have to pay.
My (perhaps wild) idea is that the "symbolic" cost of 1 rep-unit just might be a brake on impulsive down-voting by the not-the-OP, while ... assuming the down-votes pile-up ... the down-votes might get a message to the OP.
Also based on my perceptions of the Lounge as essentially "another planet"
cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Keep vote anonymous to the users, until there is an actual issue with posting on particular articles; then use the moderators to review the voting.
Keep the upvote/like button on the forum posts.
If you want to modify this, then you will need REAL moderators and REAL curating for the articles.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Well I'm always curios to know about who up/down voted my posts.
And if I up/down vote someone else's post and he/she asked me the reason behind my vote, I'm always ready to explain the the reason.
And I think making votes non-anonymous would make people more responsible and think before carelessly down-voting other people's posts.
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Against. As other people have pointed out, there're plenty of idiots who'd go on a revenge voting spree. We don't need that.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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But if they did, and weren't anonymous, then maybe it would hold them back from such a spree?
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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I'm going to echo the people who say that we should leave voting anonymous. We already have enough people who seem to down-vote simply because they don't like someone. I'd rather avoid some special snowflake deciding that I'm the target of their wrath this week all because I bruised their fragile ego by saying that I don't think their genius idea is actually that good.
Worst case, require a reason why you are down-voting but don't display it. Heck, require a reason for up-voting as well. Make it fair and apply to everyone. I really dislike seeing useless articles (on this site or any other for that matter) which are voted 5 star followed by a bunch of identical "Great Article!" comments. Feels like they got their little sock puppet army to bump it up for a chance at whatever monthly gold star the site offers.
Have a process in place for people who think they were wrongfully down-voted. Have a minimum threshold (10 down-votes? 20? 50%+? Just tossing out ideas), then they can submit their reason why it needs to be examined to make sure the down-votes were legit.
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Could you pin this post as the first Lounge post until the debate is closed (= until you think there is enough matter for you to decide) ? I think it would help for the visibility of the discussion.
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Rage wrote: Could you pin this post as the first Lounge post until the debate is closed
Seconded. 
/ravi
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I've got the feedback I needed - it was perfect.
I'm refining now.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: it was perfect.
 I am glad you could derive something out of this overall white noise 
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Against:
Anonymous voting encourages peer review (i.e. rating articles). Peer reviewed articles are one of the most important assets of CP. Although anonymous voting also allows abuse, the majority of votes are honest ones, causing the abuse to drop off as noise. For this reason, I urge you to continue to keep voting anonymous.
/ravi
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